Evaluation category: 669 books
Composition in Convergence
The Impact of New Media on Writing Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Composition in Convergence: The Impact of New Media on Writing Assessment considers how technological forms--such as computers and online courses--transform the assessment of writing, in addition to text classroom activity. Much has been written on how technology has affected writing, but assessment...
The Action Research Planner
Doing Critical Participatory Action Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on ‘participation’...
Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds
Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used both in and out of the classroom to teach initiative and problem-solving, encourage creativity, promote literacy, and develop reasoning skills.
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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...
Complex Dynamical Systems in Education
Concepts, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This book capitalizes on the developments in dynamical systems and education by presenting some of the most recent advances in this area in seventeen non-overlapping chapters. The first half of the book discusses the conceptual framework of complex dynamical systems and its applicability to educational...
Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills. The major element of this new volume is the presentation of research information...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
This book explores teaching and learning in lower secondary classrooms in the three PISA domains science, mathematics and reading. Based on extensive video documentation from science, math and reading classrooms in Norwegian secondary schooling, it analyzes how offered and experienced teaching and...
Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms
The Impacts of edTPA on Teaching and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Winner of the 2017 AESA Critic's Choice Book Award
This book provides multiple perspectives on the dual struggle that teacher educators currently face as they make sense of edTPA while preparing their pre-service teachers for this high stakes teacher exam. The adoption of nationalized teacher...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The chapters in this book will focus on pre-service and in-service science teacher education, because both are equally important. With case studies for China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan topics include: Professional Development of Chemistry Teachers in the New Curriculum, Using Classroom Observation to...
Life in Schools and Classrooms
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book discusses key aspects of life in schools and classrooms, and surveys the changes that have occurred over the years in educational research, policy making and practice in these school and classroom settings. It not only examines cutting-edge research in these areas, but also showcases good...
Mathematics Teachers Engaging with Representations of Practice
A Dynamically Evolving Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book presents innovative approaches and state-of-the-art empirical studies on mathematics teacher learning. It highlights the advantages and challenges of such tools as classroom videos, concept cartoons, simulations, and scenarios. The book details how representations of practice encourage and...
The Rebirth of Education
Schooling Ain't Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India's rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic.
The problem is that schooling is not the...
In the Eyes of God
American Public Education in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
In the Eyes of God takes a hard look at what is being done to improve public education in America. The twenty-first century finds the United States in a very demanding situation regarding the economy, world affairs, and the general demise of humanity. The education of children in America seems to...