Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills

Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Author: Patrick Griffin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9401793956

This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills. Readers are guided through a detailed description of the methods used in this process. The first volume was published by Springer in 2012 (Griffin, P., McGaw, B. & Care, E., Eds., Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills, Dordrecht: Springer). The major elements of this new volume are the identification and description of two 21st century skills that are amenable to teaching and learning: collaborative problem solving, and learning in digital networks. Features of the skills that need to be mirrored in their assessment are identified so that they can be reflected in assessment tasks. The tasks are formulated so that reporting of student performance can guide implementation in the classroom for use in teaching and learning. How simple tasks can act as platforms for development of 21st century skills is demonstrated, with the concurrent technical infrastructure required for its support. How countries with different languages and cultures participated and contributed to the development process is described. The psychometric qualities of the online tasks developed are reported, in the context of the robustness of the automated scoring processes. Finally, technical and educational issues to be resolved in global projects of this nature are outlined.

Totally Unofficial

Totally Unofficial
Author: Raphael Lemkin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2013-06-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0300186967

Presents the never-before-published autobiography of Raphael Lemkin, who immigrated to the U.S. during World War II and made it his life's work to fight genocide, a term he coined, with the might of the U.N. Genocide Convention.

Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future

Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future
Author: Jason Epstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2011-02-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393103773

"An irresistible book about Grub Street, authorship and the literary marketplace."—Washington Post Book World Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review of Books, and created of the Library of America, the prestigious publisher of American classics, and The Reader's Catalog, the precursor of online bookselling. In this short book he discusses the severe crisis facing the book business today—a crisis that affects writers and readers as well as publishers—and looks ahead to the radically transformed industry that will revolutionize the idea of the book as profoundly as the introduction of movable type did five centuries ago.

The Business of Books

The Business of Books
Author: Andre Schiffrin
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001-11-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781859843628

Part-memoir, part-history, The Business of Books is an irascible, acute and often passionate account of the collapsing standards of contemporary book publishing. It has appeared throughout the world in seventeen different editions. Book jacket.

Axis Rule in Occupied Europe

Axis Rule in Occupied Europe
Author: Raphael Lemkin
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1584775769

"In this study Polish emigre Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the term 'genocide' and defined it as a subject of international law"--Provided by publisher.

Slum Wolf

Slum Wolf
Author: Tadao Tsuge
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 168137174X

A gritty collection of graphic short stories by a Japanese manga master depicting life on the streets among punks, gangsters, and vagrants. Tadao Tsuge is one of the pioneers of alternative manga, and one of the world’s great artists of the down-and-out. Slum Wolf is a new selection of his stories from the late Sixties and Seventies, never before available in English: a vision of Japan as a world of bleary bars and rundown flophouses, vicious street fights and strange late-night visions. In assured, elegantly gritty art, Tsuge depicts a legendary, aging brawler, a slowly unraveling businessman, a group of damaged veterans uniting to form a shantytown, and an array of punks, pimps, and drunks, all struggling for freedom, meaning, or just survival. With an extensive introduction by translator and comics historian Ryan Holmberg, this collection brings together some of Tsuge’s most powerful work—raucous, lyrical, and unforgettable.