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  • Developing Inquiry for Learning

    Reflecting Collaborative Ways to Learn How to Learn in Higher Education

    by Peter Ovens, Frances Wells, Patricia Wallis, Cyndy Hawkins ...
    Developing Inquiry for Learning shows how university tutors can help students to improve their abilities to learn and to become professional inquirers.An increasing proportion of students entering higher education seem to assume that learning is a relatively passive process. This may be the largest single limitation on their achievement. University tutors need to be able to respond creatively to ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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  • Engaging in Action Research

    A Practical Guide to Teacher-Conducted Research for Educators and School Leaders

    by Jim Parsons, Kurtis Hewson, Lorna Adrian, Nicole Day ...
    You don’t need a tweed jacket to be a researcher--in thousands of schools across North America, practising teachers conduct studies on best practices, alternative approaches, and effective learning strategies. Classroom teachers have experiences and opportunities unavailable to researchers in a university setting, and action research--site-based, teacher-conducted research--can have a valuable ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Focus on Hope

    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

    by Frances K. Trotman, Erik E. Morales ...
    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Measurement and Research in the Accountability Era

    Edited by Carol Anne Dwyer ...
    The subject of accountability warrants thoughtful and dispassionate attention in today's educational environment. The accountability and school reform policies that are put in place today will have wide-ranging and long-lasting consequences for all of the nation's learners. This volume stems from the 2003 Educational Testing Service Invitational Co ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Exam Schools

    Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools

    by Jessica A. Hockett, Chester E. Finn, Jr. ...
    An in-depth look at academically selective public high schools in AmericaWhat is the best education for exceptionally able and high-achieving youngsters? Can the United States strengthen its future intellectual leadership, economic vitality, and scientific prowess without sacrificing equal opportunity? There are no easy answers but, as Chester Finn and Jessica Hockett show, for more than 100,000 ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Future of Test-Based Educational Accountability

    by Katherine Ryan, Lorrie Shepard ...
    In recent decades testing has become a much more visible and high-stakes accountability mechanism that is now seen as a powerful tool that can be used to drive school improvement. The purpose of this book is to identify and analyze the key issues associated with test-based educational accountability and to chart the future of educational accountability research. Chapter contributions are intended ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Demythologizing Educational Reforms

    Responses to the Political and Corporate Takeover of Education

    Edited by Arthur T. Costigan, Leslee Grey ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    There are dozens of myths surrounding educational reform today, maintaining the school’s role in economic competitiveness, the deficiency of teachers, the benefits of increased testing, and the worthiness of privatization. In this volume, the editors argue that this discussion has been co-opted to reflect the values and worldviews of special interest groups such as elites in power, politicians, ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

  • Applied Measurement with jMetrik

    by J. Patrick Meyer ...
    jMetrik is a computer program for implementing classical and modern psychometric methods. It is designed to facilitate work in a production environment and to make advanced psychometric procedures accessible to every measurement practitioner**.** Applied Measurement with jMetrik reviews psychometric theory and describes how to use jMetrik to conduct a comprehensive psychometric analysis. Each ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Mathematics Teachers Engaging with Representations of Practice

    A Dynamically Evolving Field

    Edited by Orly Buchbinder, Sebastian Kuntze ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    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 afford professional development, and describes how these tools help to investigate aspects of ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

  • Assessing Performance

    Designing, Scoring, and Validating Performance Tasks

    by Robert L. Johnson, PhD, James A. Penny, PhD, Belita Gordon, PhD ...
    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, train raters, reduce rater bias, review scores and ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Preparing Students for College and Careers

    Theory, Measurement, and Educational Practice

    Edited by Katie Larsen McClarty, Krista D. Mattern, Matthew N. Gaertner ...
    Series series NCME APPLICATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT
    Preparing Students for College and Careers addresses measurement and research issues related to college and career readiness. Educational reform efforts across the United States have increasingly taken aim at measuring and improving postsecondary readiness. These initiatives include developing new content standards, redesigning assessments and performance levels, legislating new developmental ... Read more

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  • Transforming Assessment

    Through an Interplay Between Practice, Research and Policy

    Edited by Robert Evans, Jens Dolin ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book reports the results of a research project that investigated assessment methods aimed at supporting and improving inquiry-based approaches in European science, technology and mathematics (STM) education. The findings were used to influence policy makers with guidelines for ensuring that assessment enhances learning.The book provides insights about:- The concept of competence within the ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD