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This volume provides school governors with helpful perspectives drawn from research as well as practical experience.It also offers specific suggestions on how to ensure that schools are operating as effectively as possible, helping you to develop the appropriate roles and responsibilities that will nurture quality and excellence in school organizations. ... Read more

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This text is a practical introduction to social welfare policy analysis and presentation at the local or community level. The book's focus on small-scale, locally oriented practice in human services is a unique feature in that most texts focus on grand scale and national policies, ignoring the power, reality, and necessity of policy practice at the agency, community, or inter-organization levels. Flynn also includes an integrated discussion about values and ethics. ... Read more

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This volume argues that only by combining the forces of the schools, the community, business and social services can we tackle growing social and educational problems. The authors combine experience and expertise to offer a dynamic, practical book that gives educators the tools and strategies for conceptualizing, designing and implementing coalitions. ... Read more

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University of Louisville, Kentucky.Second edition of a guide for graduate students in psychology, preparing for licensing exams. ... Read more

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Every school administrator knows that technical, interpersonal and political skills are absolutely crucial to success as an instructional leader. In this book the authors distill the key skills and techniques principals need to transform their daily activities from building managers to effective instructional leaders. This easy to read, practical book will help break barriers between teachers and administrators so they can begin their transformation to TQE-based instructional leaders. The book also includes useful charts, checklists, timelogs, key terms and concepts, references for future study and a planning and troubleshooting guide. ... Read more

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This hands-on guide shows you how to find out precisely the appropriate level of instruction for each of your students. Models of Curriculum Based Assessment provides teachers, school psychologists, and diagnosticians with updated literature and research on curriculum-based assessment (CBA). This type of assessment is particularly useful when including students with special needs in general education classrooms, and this book gives you a practical description of (and means for assessing) how a student is functioning within the regular education curriculum. You get: ready-to-use CBAs that are designed to be used as models, scope-and-sequence charts, reproducible forms to chart progress, and directions for using these measures as the basis for instruction in Grades 2 through 12. ... Read more

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The book came in the condition and in the time that was expected. ... Read more

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Become a power teacher by using tests effectively to define learning targets, build standards-based assessments, and develop data-driven teaching strategies for enhanced student achievement. ... Read more

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The means of assessment most commonly employed in schools today are notonly an inaccurate gauge of student achievement, but can be detrimental to student learning. Inthis collection of essays, education professionals of all stripes take a stand against standardizedtesting and in defense of classroom practice as the most accurate indicator of student knowledge. ... Read more

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Illustrating how the theory of Total Quality Education (TQE) was successfully transformed into an effective and efficient model school program, the authors of this book spell out in detail the ideas, steps and methods that they used to create a TQE middle school in Tucson, Arizona.

The authors cover important current concepts and give suggested procedures for their implementation. Topics discussed include: a shifting paradigm of organizational development; dynamic complexity of interpersonal relations and belief; mental models; shared visions; alignment of organizational structures; school structural changes; leverage; and successive approximation.

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Can schools be changed to eliminate some of the worst things about them? In this book the authors examine how competition is at the heart of nearly all facets of school life and the socioeconomic system that supports it. The authors conclude there is no way to recreate a school to ensure that every student wins and that there are no losers except by abandoning the current system and starting again.

To design a school where all children are winners requires a complete transformation of the school into a learning place that recenters learning at the heart of the process. The authors skilfully adapt the proven business principles of W Edwards Deming and apply them to education. Using their combined forty years of practitioner experience, English and Hill detail how the educational changes which embody Total Quality Education are possible and what learning places are like in the way of principles, characteristics, organization, schedule, staff, instruction and supervision. They also present a learning model, discuss curriculum planning and evaluation in the learning place, and provide a planning and troubleshooting guide.

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Provides comparisons to Deming philosophy and practice in education.Pretty solid overview and provides a braod sketch. ... Read more

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This title addresses the issues of motivating students for assessments, developing teachers' assessment literacy, and enhancing professional development to increase teachers' assessment skills. It also proposes a plan for expanding teachers' vision of the relationship between assessment and effective schools and provides a map to help move from current ways of assessing to the expanded vision.

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Including Students With Disabilities in Assessments - ISBN 0810620758
Time Strategies - ISBN 081062902X

The NEA Professional Library is the book publishing arm of the National Education Association. Our books are enjoyed by teachers, education students, education support professionals, higher education faculty and retired educators. Our mission is to provide timely and topical titles that enhance the professional lives of our members.

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Glimpse the future of mathematics assessment in "Measuring Up." This book features 13 classroom exercises for fourth grade students that demonstrate the dramatic meaning of inquiry, performance, communication, and problem solving as standards for mathematics education. Policymakers, education leaders, classroom teachers, university-based educators, and parents can learn from the use of these genuine mathematics problems to challenge and prepare students for the future. ... Read more

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Written in a straightforward and conversational manner, this book integrates assessment and instruction to provide educators with an understanding of when to use different techniques to optimize student learning. The emphasis is on real-world applications, taken from the author's experiences of student assessment using mainstream assessment principles. The subject matter in each chapter is amplified frequently with examples from a broad range of educational settings as diverse as classroom teaching, school administration, school counseling, special education, and related special services for students with special needs. ... Read more

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Very Helpful Teaching Tool
This book was very helpful for me as I am taking the ABCTE for teacher certification. One of the categories for learning in this program is Assessment. The book gives a great deal of the technical terms in which I needed to know. It starts out with the first 3 or 4 chapters as very complex and technical but later has many familiar teaching situations to help paint a better picture about assessment. It will definitely be a tool to go back through if I need help in assessment aspects. ... Read more

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Assessment reform is one of the hottest topics in education today. This document guides decisions about assessing the teaching and learning of reading and writing and reflects advances in our understanding of the best classroom practices. ... Read more

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Developing Tests and Questionnaires for a National Assessment of Educational Achievement is the second in this series designed to help build capacity in carrying out technically adequate assessments of national levels of student achievement. It introduces readers to the activities involved in the development of achievement tests, and includes developing an assessment framework, writing multiple choice and constructed response type items, pretesting, producing test booklets, and handscoring items. A companion CD contains examples of released items from national and international tests, sample questionnaires, and administrative manuals. ... Read more

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Written for educators and those who have to assess individuals with disabilities, this practical textbook provides a range of strategies using both formal and informal techniques. ... Read more

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The term "assessment literacy" is increasingly being used in education as teachers are required to know more and more about assessment and accountability. Most of today's public educators, however, were never required as part of their pre-service training to learn the ins and outs of this complicated subject matter. For in service teachers, assessment literacy is hardly weekend reading! And most traditional textbooks were written for graduate students aspiring to be specialist in measurement and assessment.
Enter Mastering Assessment--a packaged set of booklets about a wide range of topics related to educational assessment. Written by noted assessment W. James Popham in his characteristic witty style, these short books put the most relevant information on assessment at teachers' fingertips. Reading through a booklet on reducing assessment bias, how to build constructed response tests, or scoring rubrics will provide teachers a quick, engaging means of becoming "assessment literate." ... Read more

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Great Educational Reference tool
This kit is a must have for teachers especially those who are concerned with writing valuable - reliable and valid tests - ... Read more