Evaluation category: 669 books
Identifying Gifted Students
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The newly revised Identifying Gifted Students: A Practical Guide is aligned with both the updated National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Pre-K12 Gifted Program Standards and the NAGC and The Association for the Gifted, Council for Exceptional Children (CEC-TAG) professional development...
Nonverbal Delivery in Speaking Assessment
From An Argument to A Rating Scale Formulation and Validation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
With an argument for embedding nonverbal delivery in speaking assessment as a point of departure, this book seeks to validate a proposed rating scale for incorporating nonverbal delivery and other conventional dimensions into speaking assessment with a mixed-methods approach. To illustrate the indispensable...
Focused Instruction
An Innovative Teaching Model for All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Effectively respond to diverse learning styles and achievement levels with strategies and reproducible tools to help you customize, scaffold, and layer your instruction. Reach every student in the classroom, while still holding all students accountable for learning.
The College Instructor's Guide to Writing Test Items
Measuring Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
The College Instructor’s Guide to Writing Test Items: Measuring Student Learning addresses the need for direct and clear guidance on item writing for assessing broad ranges of content in many fields. By focusing on multiple-choice response items, this book provides college instructors the tools...
National Assessments of Educational Achievement, Volume 4
Analyzing Data from a National Assessment of Educational Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Effective assessment of the performance of educational systems is a key component in developing policies to optimize the development of human capital around the world. The five books in the National Assessments of Educational Achievement series introduce key concepts in national assessments of student...
Data Analytics and Psychometrics
Informing Assessment Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
The general theme of this book is to encourage the use of relevant methodology in data mining which is or could be applied to the interplay of education, statistics and computer science to solve psychometric issues and challenges in the new generation of assessments. In addition to item response data,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
The Handbook of Formative Assessment in the Disciplines meaningfully addresses current developments in the field, offering a unique and timely focus on domain dependency. Building from an updated definition of formative assessment, the book covers the integration of measurement principles into practice;...
by TexTESOL IV
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
MISSION:The Journal of Assessment & Teaching of English Language Learners (JATELL) supports TexTESOL IV mission by promote scholarship; sharing information through publication and research, and promote high standards in the field of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).VISION:JATELL...
by Terry Loane
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
The use of digital technology to capture evidence of learning has been an area of rapid development recently, both in terms of the devices (such as smartphones and tablet computers) and the range of e-portfolios that has become available. Such a rapid pace of change is a major challenge to established...
The Wiley Handbook of Psychometric Testing
A Multidisciplinary Reference on Survey, Scale and Test Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
A must-have resource for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students interested or involved in psychometric testing
Over the past hundred years, psychometric testing has proved to be a valuable tool for measuring personality, mental ability, attitudes, and much more. The word ‘psychometrics’...
Individualized Child-Focused Curriculum
A Differentiated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Learn to integrate individualized curriculum into daily practice with this step-by-step guide. Using Developmental Studies, a new tool created and successfully field-tested by the author, implement a truly child-focused and individualizing curriculum, meeting each child where she or he is and ultimately...
Saving Play
Addressing Standards through Play-Based Learning in Preschool and Kindergarten
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Play, academics, and standards can work together with the right strategies and support from educators. Take an active role in child-directed play to guide learning. Become a strong advocate for saving play in early childhood education by empowering teachers to join play and standards, and learn how...
School Inspectors
Policy Implementers, Policy Shapers in National Policy Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
This book examines the role of the inspector within the context of a number of OECD member states and explores the ways in which the inspectors themselves interpret, implement and influence inspection practices and policy.
Inspection policy can have various unintended consequences, some of...
The Definitive Guide To Passing The Police Recruitment Process 2nd Edition
A handbook for prospective police officers, special constables and police community support officers
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Every police force in England and Wales uses the same national application form and assessment centre. This book tells you not just about the process, but what you need to do to impress the assessors. Now in a revised new edition to reflect the recent changes in the six core skillsby which all police applicants are assessed, it provides: