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Action Research, the definitive destination. These are the activities of Beyond Implementation: A Planning Guide and Grade Book. Its purpose, to learn from student outcomes, to predict what happens if you change one aspect of an activity, to test that prediction, and analyze test results. Your journey starts at the end of the beginning, Preparing Effective Lessons (Ray, 2019). Begin by examining summative test outcomes. Then identify an activity whose results indicate students need to improve....

The Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment (BESA) was developed in response to the need for valid, reliable instruments for assessment of speech and language ability, along a continuum, in English-Spanish bilingual children ages 4 through 6 years. The BESA is a comprehensive assessment of a child's speech and language abilities in English and Spanish. Two ancillary questionnaires (BIOS and ITALK) can be used to document language exposure and use, allowing the examiner to develop a profile of any...

The book presents statistical methods and models that can usefully support the ev- uation of educational services and quality of products. The contributions collected in this book summarize the work of several researchers from the universities of Bologna, Firenze, Napoli and Padova. The contributions are written with a cons- tent notation and a uni?ed view, and concern methodological advances developed mostly with reference to speci?c problems of evaluation using real data sets. The evaluation o...

Designed for precollege teachers by a collaborative of teachers, educators, and mathematicians, Some Applications of Geometric Thinking is based on a course offered in the Summer School Teacher Program at the Park City Mathematics Institute. But this book isn't a ``course'' in the traditional sense. It consists of a carefully sequenced collection of problem sets designed to develop several interconnected mathematical themes, and one of the goals of the problem sets is for readers to uncover thes...

Der vorliegende Band liefert eine praxisorientierte und theoretisch fundierte Auseinandersetzung mit den Moeglichkeiten von E-Learning. Theorie und Praxis des digital gestutzten Lernens werden integrativ analysiert und anwendungsorientiert vermittelt. So werden lerntheoretisch fundierte Ansatze zur didaktischen Gestaltung von digital gestutzten Lehr-/Lernveranstaltungen dargestellt wie Strategien zum Qualitatsmanagement vermittelt.

This revised edition is the most informative and comprehensive alignment of current knowledge of the approaches, processes, and methods of plant valuation. This edition represents a systematic evolution of plant appraisal that integrates new research into a deeper understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the available methods. Included in this edition are detailed discussions of newly streamlined core concepts and terminology, a review of the organization and context of appraisal report...

This is an upbeat volume on educational evaluation. Of special utility is its grounding in issues and practices relating to evaluations of science and technology education. The book should appeal and be useful to a wide range of persons involved in evaluations of educational policy, programmes, and (to a lesser degree) teachers of science.; Contents reflecting international studies of curriculum, evaluation of distance education, and evaluation of technology utilization in Australian schools, as...

Both educators and their students are involved in the process of assessment - all parties are expected to meet and exceed expectations in the face of competing conditions. New practices are being developed to enhance students' participation, especially in their own assessment, be it though peer-review, reflective assessment, the introduction of new technologies, or other novel solutions. Though widely researched, few have measured these innovations' effectiveness in terms of satisfaction, percei...