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Managing Complex Change in School
Engaging pedagogy, technology, learning and leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Leading and managing change in schools is a complex topic. In this timely book the authors take the reader through a journey of how to lead and manage multidimensional change in order to create engaged learners, teachers, leaders and managers. They provide a readable and straightforward account of...
Advanced Literacy Practices
From the Clinic to the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Advanced Literacy Practices: From the Clinic to the Classroom includes salient information about clinical literacy practices that transfer to other settings. From historical perspectives to cutting edge instructional techniques, this edited text includes elements of designing literacy clinics, models...
Assessment, Bureaucracy, and Consolidation
The Issues Facing Schools Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
American education has changed dramatically over the last century. The small, locally controlled school, supported by a concerned educational village fostered learning, personal accountability, patriotism and economic growth for a young nation. Today, however, American schools are typically large,...
Qualitative Research
An Introduction to Methods and Designs
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
The authors—noted scholars and researchers—provide an up-to-date guide to qualitative study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. Step by step, the authors explain a range of methodologies and methods for conducting qualitative research focusing on how they are applied when conducting...
by Patrick Farenga
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Writing a report about doing school at home is easier in many ways than writing one about unschooling, since you will have many of the conventional products of schooling to share with school officials, such as tests, worksheets, and commonly used textbooks. Unschooling often doesn’t produce such...
by Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Charles H. McCormick, D.L. Stufflebeam
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
What goals should be addressed by educational programs? What priorities should be assigned to the different goals? What funds should be allocated to each goal? How can quality services be maintained with declining school enrollments and shrinking revenues? What programs could be cut if necessary?...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The new generation of tests is faced with new challenges. In the K?12 setting, the new learning targets are intended to assess higher?order thinking skills and prepare students to be ready for college and career and to keep American students competitive with their international peers. In addition,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
This title is the second Chandos Learning and Teaching Series book that explores themes surrounding enhancing learning and teaching through student feedback. It expands on topics covered in the previous publication, and focuses on social science disciplines. The editors previously addressed this gap...
Open Learning Cultures
A Guide to Quality, Evaluation, and Assessment for Future Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Today we are seeing a new form of blended learning: not only is technology enhancing the learning environment but formal and informal learning are combining and there is self- and peer-assessment of results. Open learning cultures are challenging the old and long-practiced methods used by educators...
How To Write An Assignment, 8th Edition
Proven techniques for producing essays, reports and dissertations that succeed
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
This practical guide, written by a chief examiner, gives you the tools and planning techniques for making light work of assignments, essays, reports and dissertations. It covers: * Thoroughly understanding the title, question or brief *Choosing the right format for your assignment *Producing an outline...
Teaching and Targets
Self Evaluation and School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Teachers, school managers and governors are now more publicly accountable than ever. They are expected to know how their school is performing and how to improve that performance. Target setting is a key tool in the drive to raise standards, and has been implemented at every level of the education...
Student Feedback
The Cornerstone to an Effective Quality Assurance System in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
In recent years, student feedback has appeared at the forefront of higher education quality. In particular, the issues of effectiveness and the use of student feedback to affect improvement in higher education teaching and learning, and also other areas of student tertiary experience. Despite this,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Constructs assists researchers and practitioners by identifying and reviewing the best scales/measures for a variety of constructs. Each chapter discusses test validity, reliability, and utility. Authors have focused on the most often used and cited...
Assessment in Ethics Education
A Case of National Tests in Religious Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
This book presents a number of fundamentally challenging perspectives that have been brought to the fore by the national tests on religious education (RE) in Sweden. It particularly focuses on the content under the heading Ethics. It is common knowledge that many teachers find these parts difficult...