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Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
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Thomas A Angelo, K Patricia Cross
This revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1988 handbook offers teachers at all levels how--to advise on classroom assessment, including: * What classroom assessment entails and how it works. * How to plan, implement, and analyze assessment projects. * Twelve case studies that detail the real--life classroom experiences of teachers carrying ...
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Critical Issues in Education: Dialogues and Dialectics
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Jack L Nelson, Stuart B Palonsky, Mary Rose McCarthy
"Critical Issues in Education" is designed to be used in courses that examine current, relevant pro and con disputes about schools and schooling. By exploring the major opposing viewpoints on these issues, the text encourages education students to think critically and develop their own viewpoints. The clear writing and dramatic dialectic approach ...
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Authentic Assessment for English Language Learners: Practical Approaches for Teachers
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J Michael O'Malley, Michael J O'Malley
This practical resource book will familiarize teachers, staff developers, and administrators with the latest thinking on alternatives to traditional assessment. It will prepare them to implement authentic assessment in the ESL/bilingual classroom and to incorporate it into instructional planning.
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Program Evaluation: Alternative Approaches and Practical Guidelines
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Blaine Worthen, Dr. James R Sanders, Jody L Fitzpatrick
The most comprehensive text on program evalation, providing an overview of a wide variety of approaches to evaluation and extensive practical guidelines for how to carry out evaluation studies successfully. This text helps both students and professionals who are new to evaluation to understand how the field has evolved , what different approaches ...
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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science
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The Program Evaluation Standards: How to Assess Evaluations of Educational Programs
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Joint Committee On Standards for Educational Evaluation, The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, Dr. James R Sanders
The Second Edition of this volume is the result of an extensive review process by the Joint Committee of the original Standards for Evaluations of Educational Programs, Projects, and Materials published in 1981. The 30 standards are divided into four groups corresponding to the attributes of fair programme evaluation - utility; feasibility; ...
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Reflective Practice to Improve Schools: An Action Guide for Educators
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Jennifer York-Barr, PH.D., William A Sommers, Joanne K Montie
'This book is a must read for teacher leaders, principals, and central office administrators. The authors make a substantive and powerful argument for addressing reflection at all levels of the organization and provide practical tools and insights to facilitate a comfortable transition from theory to practice. This book will be valuable to anyone ...
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Data Wise: A Step-By-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning
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Kathryn Parker Boudett (Editor)
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A Mathematician's Lament
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Paul Lockhart, Keith Devlin (Foreword by)
"One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen."--Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR's Morning Edition A brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to teaching kids reveals math to be creative and beautiful and rejects standard anxiety-producing teaching methods. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart's ...
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Handbook in Research and Evaluation
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Stephen Isaac
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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science: 25 More Formative Assessment Probes
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Page Keeley
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The Heart of the Matter: Using Standards and Assessment to Learn
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Beverly Falk
Read Falk's action plan! (PDF, 97KB) For too many years, in toc many schools, implementing higher standards has meant using the same methods to teach more and harder content, usually unsuccessfully. With this important book, Beverly Falk challenges that thinking. She explores the complexities of assessment, accountability, and standards-based ...
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The Game of School: Why We All Play It, How It Hurts Kids, and What It Will Take to Change It
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Robert L Fried
Students play it, teachers perpetuate it, parents condone it, principals endorse it, and governments legislate it. The "game of school" is that familiar scenario where students' natural curiosity and desire to learn are replaced with a frantic rush (or a compliant shrug) to do the work, please the teacher, and get the grades. This game is easy to ...
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Government Nannies
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Cathy Duffy
Confusing stories about Goals 2000 and outcome-based education have made the front page of every newspaper in the country. It is a tangled web of "government-nanny" programs that invade the privacy of families and destroys the principle of individual responsibility. This book describes where we are heading under Goals 2000.
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Assessing Academic Achievement
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David Earl Tanner
Assessing Academic Achievement approaches student assessment as an integral component of a total educational plan. The author draws on years of first-hand experience in both public school and university settings, suggesting that frequently educators disconnect assessment from the other elements of their educational plan. This book balances ...
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Assessment in the Learning Organization: Shifting the Paradigm
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Dr. Arthur L Costa (Editor), Bena O Kallick (Editor)
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Assessment for Learning: An Action Guide for School Leaders
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Stephen Chappuis
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Getting Excited about Data: Combining People, Passion, and Proof to Maximize Student Achievement
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Dr. Edie L Holcomb
The aim of this book is best captured by its subtitle, "Combining People, Passion and Proof to Increase Student Achievement". The book explains how the goal in collecting more data should be to increase student success, not to be "a more research-based, data-driven school." The book focuses on the human elements, such as hopes and fears, prior ...
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Assessing Performance: Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks
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Dr. Robert L Johnson, James A Penny, Belita Gordon
A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering, scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors explore how to establish the purpose of the assessment and how to develop scoring tools, ...
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Personalizing Evaluation
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Professor Saville Kushner
'A brilliant piece of work, adroitly fitted to the present state of affairs in program evaluation, devoted to a defensible and under-attended proposition - that we should understand programs through their recipients' - Robert Stake, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 'This book makes an important and unique contribution to evaluation' - ...
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Reaching for a Better Standard: English School Inspection and the Dilemma of Accountability for American Public Schools
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Thomas A Wilson
This work uses the tradition of English school inspection as a mirror for reflecting the dilemmas in American school accountability. It aims to address the crises affecting American schools and should assist those implementing educational reform.
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Making Standards Useful in the Classroom
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Dr. Robert J Marzano, Mark W Haystead
It's true that state standards often have way too much content and aren't written in a way that enhances classroom instruction and formative assessment. That's why this guide is invaluable for any educator who wants to ensure that standards actually lead to higher student achievement. The authors give you good reasons for why some content ...
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Differentiated Assessment for Middle and High School Classrooms
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Deborah Blaz
This book shows middle and high school teachers in differentiated classrooms how to integrate assessment into the teaching and learning process. With examples from real classrooms, this book demonstrates how to use a wide variety of assessment to better address the needs of your students with regard to their learning style, level of cognitive ...
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Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap: How to Measure Equity in Our Schools
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Dr. Ruth S Johnson, Anne Wheelock (Foreword by)
'If the goal of all students reaching high standards is to be met, Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap should be required reading for all teachers and administrators. It should also be an integral part of the course of study for those preparing to teach in the United States' - Vinetta C Jones, Dean, School of Education, Howard University One ...
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How to Design a Program Evaluation Volume 3
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Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon, Lynn Lyons Morris
Education, business and human service settings are included in this revised edition of How to Design a Program Evaluation. Additional examples in these fields makes this volume more relevant to a wider audience in comparison with the first edition. Through the use of diagrams, step-by-step directions, flow charts and extensive examples, the book ...
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