Evaluation category: 669 books
Essential Assessment
Six Tenets for Bringing Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement to the Classroom—deepen teachers’ understanding of assessment to meet standards and generate a culture of learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
While much research has revealed which assessment practices have the most positive impact on student achievement and instruction, out-of-date, unproductive practices, which students find disengaging and disheartening, still persist. Discover how to use the power of assessment to instill hope, efficacy,...
Adolescent Literacy in the Era of the Common Core
From Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Adolescent Literacy in the Era of the Common Core provides school leaders, teachers, and others with strategies and best practices for advancing adolescent literacy in the classroom. Exceptionally clear and accessible, the book addresses a full range of topics in this vitally important field, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The authors call for boundary-breaking assessment that reflects clear understandings of the purposes of assessment, a balance of assessment creativity...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
The chapters included in this book were commissioned to serve as the background for the national invitational conference sponsored by the LSS at Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education (CRHDE). The conference and the publication of the conference proceedings were supported...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Design is ubiquitous. Speaking across disciplines, it is a way of thinking that involves dealing with complex, open-ended, and contextualized problems that embody the ambiguities and contradictions in everyday life. It has become a part of pre-college education standards, is integral to how college...
Passing the State Science Proficiency Tests
Essential Content for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Passing the State Science Proficiency Tests presents essential content for elementary and middle school teachers who want to improve their science content background, enhance their classroom instruction, or pass the state science proficiency tests. This book addresses different aspects of the physical,...
The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity
Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
by Gavin T. L. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Assessment is a concept familiar across the field of education and is inherent to the work of professors, administrators, teachers, researchers, journalists, and scholars. A multifaceted and politically charged topic, assessment ranges from informal interactions with learners in classrooms to systematic...
The Essentials of Science, Grades 7-12
Effective Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (Priorities in Practice)
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Where is U.S. secondary-level science education heading today? That's the question that The Essentials of Science, Grades 7-12 sets out to answer. Over the last century, U.S. science classes have consistently relied on lectures, textbooks, rote memorization, and lab demonstrations. But with the onset...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
At this moment, schools are doing everything they can to win the Race to the Top. They are allocating their funding to test preparation, riffing beloved teachers, and transferring students who “drag down” their grade average on the state report card. This book describes the current state of the...
Reading, Writing, and Discussing at the Graduate Level
A Guidebook for International Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This book will help international students navigate the academic, professional, and social issues they will encounter while attending graduate school in the United States. This book is an invaluable tool for international graduate students and for their instructors and mentors.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Creating a meaningful and interactive learning environment is a complex task for any educator. However, once this is accomplished, students have the chance to receive enhanced opportunities for knowledge development and retention. Challenges Associated with Cross-Cultural and At-Risk Student Engagement...
by Debbie Roby, M.Ed., Annie Rivera
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Through Students' Eyes
Writing and Photography for Success in School
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Today’s educators—pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators serve increasing percentages of adolescents who have limited relationships to school. These young people are often our most diverse youth; they are frequently English Language Learners (ELLs) and immigrants, and they are too...