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Equity Examined is both a series of essays and an assessment tool designed to help schools and teacher education programs measure and understand the current state of DEI within their organizations. In working through this publication, you will recognize strengths, identify areas for improvement, and gain valuable insight to help you prioritize and implement meaningful change.

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This book seeks to identify key policy and practice recommendations that create a resourceful toolbox for school boards and superintendents to consider when developing methodologies for the evaluation of the superintendent of schools.

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This tackles the fallacies of marking and grading students work and provides teachers with specific examples of how they might provide evaluative feedback to students that enables and promotes their subsequent growth on learning tasks.

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Closely aligned with the reflections standards set by INTASC, NCATE, and NBPST, this book is essential as universities and colleges seek to have reflection as a standard skill set for classroom teachers and educational administrators. Using this text as an easily accessible re...

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This edition of Handbook of Tests and Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences has been expanded to include the increasing interest and need for qualitative and mixed methods research designs.

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This book provides educators with two critical components of the assessment dialogue: understanding the historical and legislative perceptions that have created the current climate of school accountability, and deconstructing complexities to offer concrete solutions to make assessment an enjoyable, productive, student-owned endeavor.

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This book provides educators with two critical components of the assessment dialogue: understanding the historical and legislative perceptions that have created the current climate of school accountability, and deconstructing complexities to offer concrete solutions to make assessment an enjoyable, productive, student-owned endeavor.

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Sabatini, Albro and O'Reilly believe that in light of federal legislation towards common core standards and assessments, as well as significant national investments in reading and literacy education, it is a critical and opportune time to bring together the research and measur...

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Educators will find both concrete strategies for improving their grading systems and policies and, perhaps most importantly, a rich resource for improving student learning. Ultimately, Quinn hopes to create a world in which students, parents, and teachers all pay more attention to learning and less to grades themselves.

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Easy-to-digest, down-to-earth practical strategies for doing peer assessment without the normal challenges that face educators. Building trust and creating buy-in are essential to the success of peer assessment. Teacher moderation to ensure learning outcomes match is a centra...

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Effective assessment is central to the functioning of all schools and this resource from David Spendlove offers guidance for driving student attainment and progress through the Assessment for Learning initiative.

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Reaching an Understanding: Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment builds upon the editors previous book Measuring Up: Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability by representing some early attempts to apply theory to help guide the development of new assessments and measurement models.

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This volume focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. Multiple disciplinary perspectives provide the strengths and problems in our communities. Research in this presidential volume provides hi...

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Do you want to expand working knowledge of how to construct, revise, and implement rubrics with specific how-to's and plenty of examples Rubric Assessment Goes to College provides effective college-level rubrics that are the right tools for the job of objective, comprehensive...

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This text provides information necessary to interpret test scores in schools. It emphasises that test performance must be interpreted with respect to the limitations of the test itself and how the score corresponds with other information known about the individual test-taker.

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These young children now experience the stress of having to pass the test in order to be promoted (a process continued through high school graduation.). Standardized Testing Skills provides the materials that prepare teachers, parents and students for this undertaking.

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Readers of this book will strengthen their knowledge and skills in selecting, designing, and using assessments that enable all learners to actively participate and monitor their own progress towards learning objectives.

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This book clearly defines the role of cooperating teachers and guides them through their responsibilities. From preparing for the arrival of the student teacher through the writing of the letter of recommendation, the cooperating teacher learns how to create an environment that will maximize the growth of the student teacher.

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Includes strategies, techniques, and activities that have been proven successful in the classroom.

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There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Testing Too Much provides three models to use in cutting back on non-mandated testing by 25% to help school leaders and teachers find ways to improve their instruction and the educational experiences of their students.

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There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Testing Too Much provides three models to use in cutting back on non-mandated testing by 25% to help school leaders and teachers find ways to improve their instruction and the educational experiences of their students.

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This book represents one of the first extensive investigations of the effects of statewide testing policies on local school districts. They argue that the blame for this lack of progress lies not with educators' misuse of tests, nor necessarily with the tests themselves, but with policymaker's misuse of testing as a tool for reform.