Maryland Test Prep Parcc Practice Book Mathematics, Grade 5

Maryland Test Prep Parcc Practice Book Mathematics, Grade 5
Author: Test Master Press Maryland
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781517363208

New and Updated for the Revised PARCC Assessments for 2015-2016! This practice test book is the perfect preparation tool for the new PARCC Mathematics assessments. It includes two complete full-length PARCC practice tests, as well as two mini-tests to introduce students to the new assessments. It covers all the Common Core skills assessed on the state tests, and also includes additional practice for the new complex tasks found on the test. Complete Preparation for the New PARCC Assessments - Begins with two mini-tests to introduce students to the tests - Contains two complete practice tests divided into 4 units each, just like the real tests - Each practice test mimics the content and style of the real assessments - Prepares students for all the question types found on the PARCC tests - Covers all the Common Core skills assessed on the real tests Developed Specifically for the New PARCC Mathematics Assessments - Covers the same Common Core skills assessed on the PARCC assessments - Provides practice completing selected response, constructed response, and computer-based questions - Includes more advanced questions to reflect more rigorous PARCC tasks - Includes additional practice for the new complex tasks that require expressing mathematical reasoning and modeling or applying skills One Book, Six Key Benefits - Build confidence by using the tests to improve student performance - Reduce test anxiety by allowing the student to practice taking the test - Ensure students are comfortable with a range of question formats - Introduce students to the new complex tasks found on the PARCC tests - Help students prepare for the more rigorous Common Core assessments - Use the full answer key and skills list to identify gaps in knowledge and target revision accordingly

Maryland Test Prep Parcc Practice Book Mathematics Grade 5

Maryland Test Prep Parcc Practice Book Mathematics Grade 5
Author: Test Master Test Master Press Maryland
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781502462183

New and Updated for the 2014 Standards and the New 2014-2015 State Tests! In 2014-2015, the Maryland School Assessments (MSA) will be replaced by the PARCC assessments. This book has been developed specifically to prepare students for the new PARCC assessments. It includes two full-length Performance-Based Assessments (PBA) and two full-length End-of-Year Assessments (EOY). It includes practice for all the tasks students will encounter on the real PARCC tests. Complete Preparation for the PBA and the EOY - Includes two PBA practice tests and two EOY practice tests - Each practice test mimics the content of the real assessments - Prepares students for all the question types found on the PARCC tests Developed Specifically for the New PARCC Mathematics Assessments - Covers the same Common Core skills assessed on the PARCC assessments - Provides practice completing selected response, constructed response, and computer-based questions - Includes more advanced questions to reflect more rigorous PARCC tasks - Includes additional practice for the new complex tasks that require expressing mathematical reasoning and modeling or applying skills One Book, Six Key Benefits - Build confidence by using the tests to improve student performance - Reduce test anxiety by allowing the student to practice taking the test - Ensure students are comfortable with a range of question formats - Introduce students to the new complex tasks found on the PARCC tests - Help students prepare for the more rigorous Common Core assessments - Use the full answer key and skills list to identify gaps in knowledge and target revision accordingly

Tested

Tested
Author: Linda Perlstein
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2007-07-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1429923245

The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged almost solely on the bottom line: test scores. To see if this world is producing better students, Linda Perlstein immersed herself in a suburban Maryland elementary school. The resulting portrait -- detailed, human, and truly thought-provoking -- is marked by the same narrative gifts and expertise that made Not Much Just Chillin' so illuminating. The school, once deemed a failure, is now held up as an example of reform done right. Perlstein explores the rewards and costs of that transformation, through the experiences of the people who lived it. Nine-year-olds meditate to activate their brains before exams and kindergartners write paragraphs. Teachers attempt to address diverse needs at the same time they are expected to follow daily scripts, and feel compelled to focus on topics that will be tested at the expense of those that won't. The principal attempts to keep it all together, in the face of immense challenges. Perlstein provides the first detailed view of how new education policies are modified by human realities. Tested will be talked about, thought about, written about -- and will almost certainly play an important role in the national debate as the federal education law come up for renewal.

Boy @ the Window

Boy @ the Window
Author: Donald Earl Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-11
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780989256131

As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.

The 1994 High School Transcript Study

The 1994 High School Transcript Study
Author: Stanley Legum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

The 1994 High School Transcript Study (HSTS) provides the Department of Education and other policymakers with information about current course offerings and students' course-taking patterns in the nation's secondary schools. One objective was to determine changes in course offering and selection patterns since the previous studies in 1982, 1987, and 1990. Another research objective was to compare course-taking patterns to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), an assessment of educational achievement nationwide. In 1994, transcripts were collected for more than 25,000 students who graduated from high school that year. These students were from 340 schools that participated in the NAEP. This technical report documents the procedures used to collect and summarize the data. An accompanying volume provides tables of findings, and another contains the data file user's manual. The following sections are included: (1) "Executive Summary"; (2) "Background: Sample Design"; (3) "Selection of Schools and Students for the 1994 High School Transcript Study"; (4) "Data Collection Procedures"; (5) "Data Processing Procedures"; (6) "Weighting and Estimation of Sampling Variance"; (7) "1994 High School Transcript Study Data Files"; and (8) "References." Five appendixes provide supplementary information about the study methodology. (Contains 30 tables, 2 figures, 23 exhibits, and 18 references.) (SLD)

Leveled Books (K-8)

Leveled Books (K-8)
Author: Irene C. Fountas
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

For ten years and in two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-right books to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books, K-8 to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school. Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on: the role of leveled books in reading instruction, analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts, using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading, selecting books for both guided and independent reading, organizing high-quality classroom libraries, acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases, creating a school book room. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction. Best of all, Leveled Books, K-8 is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion-www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com-is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes more than 18,000 titles. With Leveled Books, K-8 you'll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, you'll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading. Book jacket.

The Together Leader

The Together Leader
Author: Maia Heyck-Merlin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2016-05-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118987527

Streamline your workflow and bring your vision to life The Together Leader is a practical handbook for the busy mission-driven leader. With an emphasis on time management, the book provides all of the tools, templates, and checklists necessary for leaders to stay organized and keep on top their responsibilities. Maia Heyck-Merlin describes step-by-step a set of habits and systems that help leaders to keep everything running smoothly and, most importantly, achieve their mission-driven goals. By learning how to plan for the predictable, leaders can face the unexpected head-on, going off-plan while keeping their eye on the objective. Education leaders will learn how to prioritize quickly and efficiently, and gain access to hands-on tools that take the turbulence out of their days, allowing them to truly become a Together Leader. Mission-driven leaders are often required to multi-task; it's part of the job. This book gives leaders the tools and information they need to streamline their workflow, to take the day one task at a time without sacrificing productivity. The book includes lessons on how to: Prioritize effectively and work efficiently Get organized and stay prepared no matter what Manage time, staff, and resources Develop the habits of an effective leader A leader's time is valuable, as is that of their staff. There's no room for waste. The Together Leader prepares leaders to truly lead their teams, with the tools and strategies that make real, effective mission-driven leadership possible.

Math Fact Fluency

Math Fact Fluency
Author: Jennifer Bay-Williams
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416627227

This approach to teaching basic math facts, grounded in years of research, will transform students' learning of basic facts and help them become more confident, adept, and successful at math. Mastering the basic facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division is an essential goal for all students. Most educators also agree that success at higher levels of math hinges on this fundamental skill. But what's the best way to get there? Are flash cards, drills, and timed tests the answer? If so, then why do students go into the upper elementary grades (and beyond) still counting on their fingers or experiencing math anxiety? What does research say about teaching basic math facts so they will stick? In Math Fact Fluency, experts Jennifer Bay-Williams and Gina Kling provide the answers to these questions—and so much more. This book offers everything a teacher needs to teach, assess, and communicate with parents about basic math fact instruction, including The five fundamentals of fact fluency, which provide a research-based framework for effective instruction in the basic facts. Strategies students can use to find facts that are not yet committed to memory. More than 40 easy-to-make, easy-to-use games that provide engaging fact practice. More than 20 assessment tools that provide useful data on fact fluency and mastery. Suggestions and strategies for collaborating with families to help their children master the basic math facts. Math Fact Fluency is an indispensable guide for any educator who needs to teach basic math facts.