Evaluation category: 669 books
by Chris Dukes, Maggie Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
‘The number of two-year-olds entering our settings has been increasing over the last few years, and with the government set to continue with the expansion of free places, more and more practitioners will be caring for children in this age range for the first time. For those who still think in terms...
by Peter Woods
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume describes and analyses exceptional educational events – periods of particularly effective teaching representing ultimates in teacher and pupil educational experience. The events themselves are reconstructed in the book through teacher and pupil voices and through documentation. A model...
Looking Back
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Paul W. Holland
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
In 2006, Paul W. Holland retired from Educational Testing Service (ETS) after a career spanning five decades. In 2008, ETS sponsored a conference, Looking Back, honoring his contributions to applied and theoretical psychometrics and statistics. Looking Back attracted a large audience that came to...
PISA and PIRLS
The Effects of Culture and School Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally. They have become benchmarks of education for countries in the world and provide a broad perspective for countries to evaluate their...
Tests and Exams in Singapore Schools
What School Leaders, Teachers and Parents Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Assessment, mainly in the form of tests and examinations, plays a critical role in the schooling of Singaporean students. The results are often used to make irrevocable decisions on the students' future education careers.
This book is written with school leaders, teachers, and parents in mind,...
Comparing Learning Outcomes
International Assessment and Education Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
Comparing Learning Outcomes provides an insider's look at the policy and practical issues in conducting and using the information from international assessments of education and is a key resource for researchers and policymakers in education.
This book covers a variety of important topics related...
by Dirk Hastedt
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
This book examines the mathematics achievement of immigrant students on the basis of data from the IEA Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). It combines an analysis of large-scale assessment data with an in-depth exploration of policy studies and transforms the insights gained...
School Size Effects Revisited
A Qualitative and Quantitative Review of the Research Evidence in Primary and Secondary Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This book provides a thorough review of the research literature on the effect of school size in primary and secondary education on three types of outcomes: student achievement, non-cognitive outcomes and costs per student. Based on 84 scientific publications and several prior reviews, the book discusses...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Few faculty members in academic medical centres are formally prepared for their roles as teachers. This work is an introductory text designed to provide medical teachers with the core concepts of effective teaching practice and information about innovations for curriculum design, delivery, and assessment....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book advocates that teachers should play an active role in high-stakes language testing and that more weight should be given to teacher judgement. This is likely to increase the formative potential of high-stakes tests and provide teachers with a sense of ownership. The implication is that the...
A Teaching Assistant's Guide to Completing NVQ Level 2
Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Based on the updated National Occupational Standards for Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools, this new edition of A Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Completing NVQ Level 2 caters directly to the criteria of the course, providing the necessary ‘Knowledge and Understanding’ required as well...
by Patrick Baccellieri
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This practical resource demonstrates how to use data in decision making to improve student learning by promoting a school-wide learning community. Help motivate your staff to participate in choosing goals and instructional strategies while keeping the focus on improving student achievement.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
The Asia-Pacific region needs to maximize the benefits of education to enable it to compete in an economic future dominated by innovation, in which assessing student progress must be an empowering rather than delimiting factor. This detailed exposition of the theoretical basis and application tools...
Education, Philosophy and Politics
The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions - so the world can read them in...