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This book is a manual for the application of a threat assessment system that follows the recommendations of the Safe Schools Initiative and the prescriptive outline provided by the FBI. Written from an educator's perspective with contributing authors from Law Enforcement, Publ...

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This book is a basic treatment of faculty performance appraisal in higher education. Neophyte administrators, committee members, and those facing evaluation are often perplexed by the range and depth of the questions concerning what constitutes an effective and reasonable performance appraisal system.

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This book on assessing writing is designed for teachers, school leaders, and evaluators. It begins with a collection of assessment practices that will increase teachers' efficiency and effectiveness as they guide students in learning how to think and write successfully.

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As the technological demands of a rapidly changing society impact the training needs of the industrial sector, mechanisms for identifying learner strengths as well as weaknesses are needed to optimize the training process.

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The emphasis throughout is on the development of the principles and treatment procedures that will allow the reader to apply the strategies necessary to teach behaviorally disordered students to learn to control their own social and academic behavior in the school setting.

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This book presents a powerful call to action for an assessment system that advances equity and offers educators practical applications that promote sound instructional decision making.

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This book covers the reason why teachers should assess in an ongoing fashion. It also provides a clear structure for designing and analyzing meaningful formative assessments. In addition, it guides the teacher in the development of differentiated activities for every level of ...

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This book covers the reason why teachers should assess in an ongoing fashion. It also provides a clear structure for designing and analyzing meaningful formative assessments. In addition, it guides the teacher in the development of differentiated activities for every level of ...

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Suitable reading for further education (FE) lecturers, this guide offers a general introduction to unravelling the maze of assessment in FE. It provides readers with hints and strategies for answering the key questions, including why, what, how and where to assess.

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As part of the American school reform movement, administrators are searching for ways of measuring students' skills and progress within the system. The authors propose a new compact among teachers and students as they take mutual responsibility for the learning process and changing curriculum.

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As part of the American school reform movement, administrators are searching for ways of measuring students' skills and progress within the system. The authors propose a new compact among teachers and students as they take mutual responsibility for the learning process and changing curriculum.

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Assessment of Gifted and High-Ability Learners equips readers with the knowledge and skills to evaluate and document student progress using a cyclical systematic process. The book includes sample curriculum-based assessments for use with gifted and high-ability students.

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Today American schools are typically large, consolidated, bureaucratic organizations controlled by state and/or municipal governments. This book examines the remarkable transformation in the form and function of education and assesses the problems and possibilities for the future of schools and our nation.

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With the national reform and research agendas occurring in teacher education, one of the most important areas needing theoretical analysis and empirical research is assessment and evaluation. New initiatives in the education of teachers and new roles in professional practice demand new means to assess both learning and performance.

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With the national reform and research agendas occurring in teacher education, one of the most important areas needing theoretical analysis and empirical research is assessment and evaluation. New initiatives in the education of teachers and new roles in professional practice demand new means to assess both learning and performance.

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Most students are only in school for a number of weeks, which means that they aren't able to appreciate the full 'assessment' picture. This guide to assessment in the primary school seeks to redress this, providing students and teacher trainers with an overview of how assessment works. It is useful for those involved in primary education.

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Assessment can be the hardest part of any teacher's job. It is easy to fall into the trap of seeing it all as unnecessary paperwork and feeling guilty about not having done it properly. This book offers practical advice on how teachers can get the most out of assessment for their students.

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Make your library accessible to every learner with this one-of-a-kind resource. This book clearly explains how to make your library readily available to every student, from using the accessibility features built into Windows, to purchasing a wide range of the newest assistive technologies.

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A collection of essays on creative practice-as-research that have emerged from a series of partnerships and graduate forums, particularly in the context of expanded disciplinary practices. The emphasis of the collection is distinctly interdisciplinary and methodological, with the essays developing discussion on how theory and practice connect to activate research.

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Assuming the Mantel of Leadership is a book of real-life case studies and activities that allows the reader to respond to the cases and activities by utilizing and reflecting upon their own institutions policies and context.

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Assuming the Mantel of Leadership is a book of real-life case studies and activities that allows the reader to respond to the cases and activities by utilizing and reflecting upon their own institutions policies and context.

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This 30-lesson interdisciplinary science unit teaches high-ability second and third graders how to think like real-world astronauts.

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Drawing on the results of a tri-national comparative survey of secondary pupils' attitudes towards Modern Foreign Language Learning (MFLL), this book illustrates both the importance and nature of learner attitudes and the contribution of comparative education to our understanding of educational issues.