A History of the Rectangular Survey System
Author | : C. Albert White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : C. Albert White |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 794 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carla Gardina Pestana |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 067425080X |
An intimate look inside Plymouth Plantation that goes beyond familiar founding myths to portray real life in the settlement—the hard work, small joys, and deep connections to others beyond the shores of Cape Cod Bay. The English settlement at Plymouth has usually been seen in isolation. Indeed, the colonists gain our admiration in part because we envision them arriving on a desolate, frozen shore, far from assistance and forced to endure a deadly first winter alone. Yet Plymouth was, from its first year, a place connected to other places. Going beyond the tales we learned from schoolbooks, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an illuminating account of life in Plymouth Plantation. The colony was embedded in a network of trade and sociability. The Wampanoag, whose abandoned village the new arrivals used for their first settlement, were the first among many people the English encountered and upon whom they came to rely. The colonists interacted with fishermen, merchants, investors, and numerous others who passed through the region. Plymouth was thereby linked to England, Europe, the Caribbean, Virginia, the American interior, and the coastal ports of West Africa. Pestana also draws out many colorful stories—of stolen red stockings, a teenager playing with gunpowder aboard ship, the gift of a chicken hurried through the woods to a sickbed. These moments speak intimately of the early North American experience beyond familiar events like the first Thanksgiving. On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of the settlement, The World of Plymouth Plantation recovers the sense of real life there and sets the colony properly within global history.
Author | : Randy E. Bennett |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 717 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3319586890 |
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one of the world’s leading research institutions, Educational Testing Service. The book’s four major sections detail research and development in measurement and statistics, education policy analysis and evaluation, scientific psychology, and validity. Many of the developments presented have become de-facto standards in educational and psychological measurement, including in item response theory (IRT), linking and equating, differential item functioning (DIF), and educational surveys like the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Programme of international Student Assessment (PISA), the Progress of International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). In addition to its comprehensive coverage of contributions to the theory and methodology of educational and psychological measurement and statistics, the book gives significant attention to ETS work in cognitive, personality, developmental, and social psychology, and to education policy analysis and program evaluation. The chapter authors are long-standing experts who provide broad coverage and thoughtful insights that build upon decades of experience in research and best practices for measurement, evaluation, scientific psychology, and education policy analysis. Opening with a chapter on the genesis of ETS and closing with a synthesis of the enormously diverse set of contributions made over its 70-year history, the book is a useful resource for all interested in the improvement of human assessment.
Author | : John L. Brooke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2018-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108271057 |
Featuring a sweeping array of essays from scholars of state formation and development, this book presents an overview of approaches to studying the history of the state. Focusing on the question of state formation, this volume takes a particular look at the beginnings, structures, and constant reforming of state power. Not only do the contributors draw upon both modernist and postmodernist theoretical perspectives, they also address the topic from a global standpoint, examining states from all areas of the world. In their diverse and thorough exploration of state building, the authors cross the theoretical, geographic, and chronological boundaries that traditionally shape this field in order to rethink the customary macro and micro approaches to the study of state building and make the case for global histories of both pre-modern and modern state formations.
Author | : Historical Records Survey (U.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Archives |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee. Committee on Propagation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Radio waves |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jodi Vandenberg-Daves |
Publisher | : National History Day, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781598840605 |
Author | : Martin Bulmer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0521363349 |
This 2001 book traces the history of the social Survey in Britain and the US, with two chapters on Germany and France. It discusses the aims and interests of those who carried out early surveys, and the links between the social survey and the growth of empirical social science.