The ability to construct and use classroom assessments is an essential educational skill for all teachers. Ongoing formal and informal classroom assessments provide teachers with the information they need to monitor and make decisions about their teaching and their students' learning. Classroom Assessment: Key Concepts and Applications covers the broad range of assessments that confront teachers both in their classrooms and beyond. Each type of assessment is presented with attention to both concepts and application, so that students will understand the reasons and cautions that are inherent in the assessments they construct and interpret. Classroom Assessment: Key Concepts and Applications provides a broad introductory overview of the critical terms, practices, and issues associated with assessment and evaluation.
Tinto's theory of educational departure and Ogbu's theory of oppositional culture provide the theoretical framework for this study. This study also uses a multi-level approach, examining whether institutional-level characteristics significantly...
No school improvement effort can be effective without addressing school culture, and in this book you'll learn how to put in place the five pillars essential to building a culture of achievement.
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Receive recommendations and real-world examples to strengthen understanding of the ten specific practices outlined in the book.
Helps teachers and administrators become aware of the needs of students using concepts like scaffolding learning, language acquisition, and direct instruction to form a solid educational foundation.
Collaborative Systems of Support
Ce guide s'adressant à l'ensemble de la communauté éducative propose des stratégies pratiques pour permettre de créer une culture d'apprentissage tournée vers le succès de chacun tant à l'échelle de la classe qu'à celle de l ...
"Provides a number of options for evaluating and instructing students in the too often overlooked areas that can and do have a tremendous impact on all students' abilities to make progress in the general education curriculum: social ...
This book considers how the educational experiences and achievement of Māori students in a number of mainstream secondary schools have been improved through a process of theory based, school-wide reform that began in Te Kotahitanga with ...
This book considers how the educational experiences and achievement of Māori students in a number of mainstream secondary schools have been improved through a process of theory based, school-wide reform that began in Te Kotahitanga with ...