Assessment of Student Achievement

Assessment of Student Achievement
Author: C. Keith Waugh
Publisher: Pearson Educacion
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Achievement tests
ISBN: 9780132927925

Balanced, concise, and practical, Waugh and Gronlund's Assessment of Student Achievement, Tenth Edition, presents an exceptionally strong set of strategies to help teachers assess all learners in today's schools. Written in a simple and direct manner, and using frequent examples and illustrations to clarify important points, the text is a balanced, concise, and practical guide for testing and performance assessment. The authors' approach emphasizes testing as well as performance evaluation--each used when it is most appropriate--as integral steps that improve student learning and ultimately build student success. This highly-regarded textbook, replete with thorough updates in the new tenth edition, prepares educators use assessment as a tool to help develop all students in their classrooms. A great portion of the textbook is devoted to preparing and using classroom tests and performance assessments, assigning grades, and interpreting standardized test scores to individual students and parents.

Teaching Tech Together

Teaching Tech Together
Author: Greg Wilson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000728153

Hundreds of grassroots groups have sprung up around the world to teach programming, web design, robotics, and other skills outside traditional classrooms. These groups exist so that people don't have to learn these things on their own, but ironically, their founders and instructors are often teaching themselves how to teach. There's a better way. This book presents evidence-based practices that will help you create and deliver lessons that work and build a teaching community around them. Topics include the differences between different kinds of learners, diagnosing and correcting misunderstandings, teaching as a performance art, what motivates and demotivates adult learners, how to be a good ally, fostering a healthy community, getting the word out, and building alliances with like-minded groups. The book includes over a hundred exercises that can be done individually or in groups, over 350 references, and a glossary to help you navigate educational jargon.

Teachers as Learners

Teachers as Learners
Author: Sharon Feiman-Nemser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Teacher effectiveness
ISBN: 9781612501147

In Teachers as Learners, a collection of landmark essays, noted teacher educator and scholar Sharon Feiman-Nemser shines a light on teacher learning. Arguing that serious and sustained teacher learning is a necessary condition for ambitious student learning, she examines closely how teachers acquire, generate, and use knowledge about teaching over the trajectory of their careers. Together, these essays bear witness to the evolution and development of a body of scholarship about teacher learning in which the author herself played a catalyzing role.

Classroom Discourse Analysis

Classroom Discourse Analysis
Author: Frances Christie
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441179593

This book offers a model of classroom discourse analysis that uses systemic functional linguistic theory and associated genre theory to develop a view of classroom episodes as 'curriculum genres', some of which operate in turn as part of larger unities of work called 'curriculum macrogenres'. Drawing on Bernstein's work, Christie argues that two registers operate in pedagogic discourse: a regulative register, to do with the goals and directions of the discourse; and an instructional register, to do with the particular 'content' or knowledge at issue. Each can be shown to be realized in distinctive clusters of choices in the grammar. The operation of the regulative register determines the initiation, pacing, sequencing and evaluation of the overall pedagogic activity. The book sets out the its methodology in detail by reference to a number of classroom texts, and a range of school subjects. Overall, schools emerge as sites of symbolic control in a culture.

Handbook of Research on Active Learning and the Flipped Classroom Model in the Digital Age

Handbook of Research on Active Learning and the Flipped Classroom Model in the Digital Age
Author: Keengwe, Jared
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1466696818

The notion of a flipped classroom draws on such concepts as active learning, student engagement, hybrid course design, and course podcasting. The value of a flipped class is in the repurposing of class time into a workshop where students can inquire about lecture content, test their skills in applying knowledge, and interact with one another in hands-on activities. The Handbook of Research on Active Learning and the Flipped Classroom Model in the Digital Age highlights current research on the latest trends in education with an emphasis on the technologies being used to meet learning objectives. Focusing on teaching strategies, learner engagement, student interaction, and digital tools for learning, this handbook of research is an essential resource for current and future educators, instructional designers, IT specialists, school administrators, and researchers in the field of education.

OECD Reviews of School Resources: Estonia 2016

OECD Reviews of School Resources: Estonia 2016
Author: Santiago Paulo
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9264251731

The effective use of school resources is a policy priority across OECD countries. The OECD Reviews of School Resources explore how resources can be governed, distributed, utilised and managed to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education.

Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)

Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)
Author: Richard Samuel Moog
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN:

POGIL is a student-centered, group learning pedagogy based on current learning theory. This volume describes POGIL's theoretical basis, its implementations in diverse environments, and evaluation of student outcomes.

Child Friendly Schools Manual

Child Friendly Schools Manual
Author:
Publisher: UNICEF
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9280643762

This Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) Manual was developed during three-and-a-half years of continuous work, involving the United Nations Children's Fund education staff and specialists from partner agencies working on quality education. It benefits from fieldwork in 155 countries and territories, evaluations carried out by the Regional Offices and desk reviews conducted by headquarters in New York. The manual is a part of a total resource package that includes an e-learning package for capacity-building in the use of CFS models and a collection of field case studies to illustrate the state of the art in child-friendly schools in a variety of settings.

Failing Gloriously and Other Essays

Failing Gloriously and Other Essays
Author: Shawn Graham
Publisher: Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, T
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2019-11-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781732841086

Failing Gloriously and Other Essays documents Shawn Graham's odyssey through the digital humanities and digital archaeology against the backdrop of the 21st-century university. At turns hilarious, depressing, and inspiring, Graham's book presents a contemporary take on the academic memoir, but rather than celebrating the victories, he reflects on the failures and considers their impact on his intellectual and professional development. These aren't heroic tales of overcoming odds or paeans to failure as evidence for a macho willingness to take risks. They're honest lessons laced with a genuine humility that encourages us to think about making it safer for ourselves and others to fail.A foreword from Eric Kansa and an afterword by Neha Gupta engage the lessons of Failing Gloriously and consider the role of failure in digital archaeology, the humanities, and social sciences.

Learning to Teach Through Discussion

Learning to Teach Through Discussion
Author: Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0300168306

Nel Noddings, author of Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach --