Educational Psychology category: 2684 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
This book brings together internationally recognised scholars with an interest in how to use the power of assessment to improve student learning and to engage with accountability priorities at both national and global levels. It includes distinguished writers who have worked together for some two...
by Bert Creemers, Leonidas Kyriakides, Panayiotis Antoniou
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This book makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory by drawing implications of teacher effectiveness research for the field of teacher training and professional development. The first part of the book provides a critical review of research on teacher training and professional development...
Moving the Equity Agenda Forward
Equity Research, Practice, and Policy in Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
This volume takes on the vital tasks of celebrating, challenging, and attempting to move forward our understanding of equity and diversity in science education. Organized thematically, the book explores five key areas of science education equity research: science education policy; globalization; context...
Publish Don't Perish
100 Tips that Improve Your Ability to get Published
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Today, publish or perish is hitting virtually all colleges and universities. As much as we may love to teach, without publishing we may not get a faculty position, not get tenure and promotions, and publishing often affects our salaries and ability to move to a new position. Therefore, the purpose of...
Becoming a High Expectation Teacher
Raising the bar
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
We constantly hear cries from politicians for teachers to have high expectations. But what this means in practical terms is never spelled out. Simply deciding that as a teacher you will expect all your students to achieve more than other classes you have taught in the same school, is not going to...
by Neil Mars
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Our life consists in a permanent quest for a more uplifting and rich experience. We love to travel, listen to music, talk to others, and mostly create.
We all love to create something, either a family, a business or an impact on society with what we do. We desire respect, recognition and appreciation....
Surviving Girlhood
Building Positive Relationships, Attitudes and Self-Esteem to Prevent Teenage Girl Bullying
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Teenage girls can be mean. Often stemming from poor self-awareness, self-esteem and lack of relationship skills, complex friendship dynamics can be difficult to unravel and bullying can be hard to resolve.
Surviving Girlhood provides a unique resource for preventing girl bullying by addressing...
Quality Education @ a Distance
IFIP TC3 / WG3.6 Working Conference on Quality Education @ a Distance February 3–6, 2003, Geelong, Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book considers several aspects of providing quality education at a distance: Quality of systems that support online learning, quality support infrastructure, quality of technical access and support, materials distribution; issues in each of these areas are considered. It contains the papers presented...
Wounded Leaders
British Elitism and the Entitlement Illusion: A Psychohistory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Political leaders in Britain are consistently drawn from a class born to be educated away from their families in institutions - elite boarding schools. This has a direct effect on their ability to love, to relate, to make good judgments and to develop the necessary leadership qualities for today's...
Become a Leader of Leaders
Raise Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Education in the twenty-first century demands that we examine school practices as never before. The research on teacher effectiveness abounds. It has influenced federal, state and local policies resulting in changed certification practices and improved professional development opportunities with a...
How to Rise to the Top...and Stay There!
A Leadership Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The present dire economic environment has greatly affected business and the opportunities for advancement or even holding a job. Even universities, although not directly in business, are feeling the impact of diminishing endowments, resulting in lower disposable funds and reduction in innovative,...
No More Robots
Building Kids Character, Competence, and Sense of Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This book was named a 2015 Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Title.
Place-based education offers a compelling opportunity to engage students in the life of their community. More than just taking a field trip, participants in a place-based project make sustained efforts to make a difference...
Foundation of Digital Badges and Micro-Credentials
Demonstrating and Recognizing Knowledge and Competencies
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This edited volume provides insight into how digital badges may enhance formal, non-formal and informal education by focusing on technical design issues including organizational requirements, learning and instructional design, as well as deployment. It features current research exploring the theoretical...
Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Incorporating both theoretical and practical perspectives, this volume of papers explores varied aspects of peer review of teaching in higher education. The section on theory features contributions from academics based in Europe, North America and Australia. It provides a number of models demonstrating...