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  • Policy, Professionalization, Privatization, and Performance Assessment

    Affordances and Constraints for Teacher Education Programs

    by Theresa J. Gurl, Limarys Caraballo, Leslee Grey, John H. Gunn, David Gerwin, Héfer Bembenutty ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume reviews the background of mandated teacher performance assessment with an emphasis on policy, privatization, and professionalization. The authors discuss the potential impact of mandated teacher performance assessments on teacher education in the content areas of mathematics, English, and social studies. The perspectives and empirical research examined in this conceptual analysis ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Demythologizing Educational Reforms

    Responses to the Political and Corporate Takeover of Education

    Edited by Arthur T. Costigan, Leslee Grey ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
    There are dozens of myths surrounding educational reform today, maintaining the school’s role in economic competitiveness, the deficiency of teachers, the benefits of increased testing, and the worthiness of privatization. In this volume, the editors argue that this discussion has been co-opted to reflect the values and worldviews of special interest groups such as elites in power, politicians, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Mathematics Teachers Engaging with Representations of Practice

    A Dynamically Evolving Field

    Edited by Orly Buchbinder, Sebastian Kuntze ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents innovative approaches and state-of-the-art empirical studies on mathematics teacher learning. It highlights the advantages and challenges of such tools as classroom videos, concept cartoons, simulations, and scenarios. The book details how representations of practice encourage and afford professional development, and describes how these tools help to investigate aspects of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Action Research Planner

    Doing Critical Participatory Action Research

    by Stephen Kemmis, Rhonda Nixon, Robin McTaggart ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on ‘participation’ (based on Jürgen Habermas’s notion of a ‘public sphere’), ‘practice’ (as shaped by practice ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • A Focus on Hope

    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

    by Frances K. Trotman, Erik E. Morales ...
    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Designing Listening Tests

    A Practical Approach

    by Rita Green ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the crucial role that sound file selection plays in assessing listening ability and introduces the reader to the procedure of textmapping, which explores how to exploit a sound file. The book discusses the role of the task identifier, the task instructions and the example, and analyses the strengths and weaknesses of different test methods. Guidelines for developing listening ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Designing Assessment for Quality Learning

    Edited by Claire Wyatt-Smith, Valentina Klenowski, Peta Colbert ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book brings together internationally recognised scholars with an interest in how to use the power of assessment to improve student learning and to engage with accountability priorities at both national and global levels. It includes distinguished writers who have worked together for some two decades to shift the assessment paradigm from a dominant focus on assessment as measurement towards ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Service-Learning in Higher Education

    by S. Deeley ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Through innovative analysis of theory and practice, this book offers refreshing critical perspectives on service-learning in higher education. It constructs a theoretical paradigm for service-learning which extends to critical pedagogy, and investigates critical reflection and academic reflective writing, supported throughout by empirical evidence. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Measurement and Research in the Accountability Era

    Edited by Carol Anne Dwyer ...
    The subject of accountability warrants thoughtful and dispassionate attention in today's educational environment. The accountability and school reform policies that are put in place today will have wide-ranging and long-lasting consequences for all of the nation's learners. This volume stems from the 2003 Educational Testing Service Invitational Co ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds

    Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools

    by P. Lacasa ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used both in and out of the classroom to teach initiative and problem-solving, encourage creativity, promote literacy, and develop reasoning skills. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Media in Education

    Results from the 2011 ICEM and SIIE joint Conference

    Edited by António Moreira, Otto Benavides, Antonio Jose Mendes ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    With the aim of discussing “old” and “new” teaching technologies, based on research and on the strategies and praxis of the use of technologies and methodologies in the different teaching levels, and also embracing the contribution and active participation of researchers, teachers, creators, managers and other specialists, the work will provide inputs on the following topics: Students’ ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Exam Schools

    Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools

    by Jessica A. Hockett, Chester E. Finn, Jr. ...
    An in-depth look at academically selective public high schools in AmericaWhat is the best education for exceptionally able and high-achieving youngsters? Can the United States strengthen its future intellectual leadership, economic vitality, and scientific prowess without sacrificing equal opportunity? There are no easy answers but, as Chester Finn and Jessica Hockett show, for more than 100,000 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD