Evaluation category: 669 books
by Paul Black, Chris Harrison, Clara Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Assessment for Learning is based on a two-year project involving thirty-six teachers in schools in Medway and Oxfordshire. After a brief review of the research background and of the project itself, successive chapters describe the specific practices which teachers found fruitful and the underlying ideas...
by Shirley Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Best-selling author Shirley Clarke provides a wealth of high quality ideas, practical strategies, classroom examples and whole-school case studies for teachers in primary and secondary schools.
The most comprehensive of Shirley Clarke's titles includes extensive examples and realia, in full colour....
by Angela Woodfield, Peter Swatton, Mrs Cynthia Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
This core text for primary trainee teachers is a clear introduction to the different kinds of assessment and their purposes. Throughout the book, tasks encourage the reader to practise assessment skills and to reflect on planning, listening, questioning, observing, diagnosing and target-setting. This...
Policy, Professionalization, Privatization, and Performance Assessment
Affordances and Constraints for Teacher Education Programs
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This volume reviews the background of mandated teacher performance assessment with an emphasis on policy, privatization, and professionalization. The authors discuss the potential impact of mandated teacher performance assessments on teacher education in the content areas of mathematics, English,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Simplifying Common Assessment
A Guide for Professional Learning Communities at Work™ [how teadchers can develop effective and efficient assessments
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Built on the process featured in Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for PLCs at Work™, this book demonstrates how educators can develop effective and efficient assessments. The authors simplify assessment development to give teacher teams the confidence to write and use team-designed common...
Improving Test Scores in Five Easy Steps
The Silver Bullet
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
The chapters in this book outline a plan that, if followed, will improve test scores in any school district. The amount of improvement is determined by various variables, including present level of achievement, previous implementation of some of these concepts, the level of implementation, the vision...
by Jeff C. Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
This book shows K–12 STEM teachers how to maximize their effectiveness with students by shifting to an inquiry-based instructional approach and creating a rigorous, engaging learning environment.
The New Teacher's Companion
Practical Wisdom for Succeeding in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Research confirms that the teacher makes the greatest difference in the learning success of students, so it's important that new teachers get off to a strong start. With help from veteran teacher and mentor Gini Cunningham, inexperienced teachers can better understand and successfully tackle the many...
by Craig MacKellar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This text provides an overview of key principles relating to mechanical, spatial and abstract thought. The aim is to facilitate the following learning outcomes. + Identify individual elements within a group of elements; + Identify a rule connecting a set of figures; + Complete a number of test questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education. It addresses how complex issues are learned and assessed across and within different disciplines and professions in order to move the process of...
Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training
Factors Influencing the Use of Quality Assurance Findings
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Many resources are invested in the development and introduction of Quality Assurance Systems in educational institutions all over the world. Our assumption is that, as a result of quality assurance activities, practitioners obtain information about their own functioning and institutional performance...
by Thomas R. Guskey, Lee Ann Jung
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
The definitive guidebook to the complex terrain of 21st-century standards!
Standards, assessments, grading, and reporting provide the foundation for nearly every initiative in modern education reform. But what do these terms actually mean? This easy-to-use Q&A gives short, simple, jargon-free...
Competence Development and Assessment in TVET (COMET)
Theoretical Framework and Empirical Results
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The transferability of vocational education and training qualifications across international borders is a live issue in this heterogeneous field. Key to this goal is defining a common methodology for measuring vocational competences. This publication sets out a proposal for just that, based on the...