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The Realities of Classroom Testing and Grading - Quentin Durham - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The Realities of Classroom Testing and Grading - Quentin Durham - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

It is commonly believed that highly subjective humans ultimately perform all testing and grading efforts and that all testing and grading is completely subjective. However, Quentin Durham argues that there is no such thing as ''objective'' testing or grading. With wit and clarity, The Realities of Classroom Testing and Grading suggests that all testing and grading efforts_from preschool to high school_are fundamentally the same. The instructor teaches what the student is supposed to learn, assesses the student''s understanding, and reports the assessment to the people who count. This book discusses a wide variety of generally taboo or ignored topics such as the multiple benefits of testing and grading beyond the obvious, realities of standardized exams, open book exams, teaching exam-taking, exam subjectivity and relevance, ''test wiley'' students, cheating, parent conferences, grading methods that make sense, and lots more.

DKK 269.00
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Testing Too Much? - Philip A. Streifer - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Testing Too Much? - Philip A. Streifer - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

There is too much testing in American Public Schools that is robbing teachers of valuable instructional time. Some of it is mandatory, but the vast majority is not, and under the control of districts, schools and even teachers to reduce. Testing Too Much? provides a rationale and set of three models to use in cutting back on testing to reclaim valuable instructional time. It also includes a high school case study describing how the themes proposed in the book can be accomplished. Instructional time is a complex subject that is discussed in detail and the underlying research why it is so important, especially for disadvantaged children. To address how best to cut back on non-mandated testing there is a chapter, written in plain terms, on how to judge the value of a test. Three models are then discussed on how to approach cutting back on testing by as much as 25% that can recapture as much as ten days or more of instruction during a typical school year. The goal of the book is to help school leaders and teachers find ways, amongst current local testing practices, to cut back, improve their instruction and the educational experiences of their students.

DKK 269.00
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Our Results-Driven, Testing Culture - Lyn Lesch - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Our Results-Driven, Testing Culture - Lyn Lesch - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Lyn Lesch advocates that learning cannot be measured by empirical results like testing and grading. As the founder of Chicago''s The Children''s School, Lesch didn''t give grades or submit students to standardized testing_such conditions may seem blasphemous to most educators, but the results spoke for themselves. Without the high-stakes pressure of results, accountability, and testing, students were able to take a more active role in their education. With reduced stress on performance, students can develop an openness to the material and link learning to their own personal experience. If the status quo goes unchanged, Lesch argues that students will be schooled in a disembodied, dull manner that prevents true learning and comprehension. To avoid this, Lesch describes how education should revolve around each student''s personal experience (i.e., linking school with what matters to individual students). Perhaps more than anything, this book is intended to be a discussion point for developing a healthy relationship between personal experience and academic learning.

DKK 312.00
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Standardized Testing Skills - Guinevere Durham - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Standardized Testing Skills - Guinevere Durham - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 was to “drive broad gains in student achievement and to hold states and schools more accountable.” As early as third grade, students are required to master the grade curriculum while also becoming proficient in test taking skills. 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.This book is organized into four sections:1.Concepts: An introduction to and explanation of the state required tests, including how to access the student’s state test guidelines, including practice tests.2.Computation: A description of types of tests with emphasis on test vocabulary.3.Application: The heart of the book; includes practical and proven techniques, strategies, and activities that guide teachers and parents in teaching test taking skills. Includes material on recognizing the child’s learning style and dealing with test anxiety.4.STOP: A review with added tips and ideas.

DKK 331.00
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No One Left Standing - Michele Wages - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

No One Left Standing - Michele Wages - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Every public school student in the U.S. will experience various types of testing each year. For decades, the purpose and quality of such testing, the time it takes to administer and take the test and how the data is used are the topic of discussion among students, parents, educators and policymakers. Those supporting the importance of testing assume that more assessment improves student achievement and that the pros of testing outweigh their ‘perceptions’ of the additional costs. Those against excessive testing, believe that schools are sacrificing learning time in order to test or prepare for the test. They also believe that reduced learning time of non -tested subjects occurs and more time is given to those students that are performing right below the proficiency score or “bubble kids” instead of developing every student’s full potential.Testing in U.S. public schools is out of control. The stress and pressures for all involved have effects that are not even measureable in most instances. Is this really the best thing for our schools? Are there alternative measures that may serve our future in a better way?Will the rewrite of NCLB be enough?

DKK 269.00
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Using Test Data for Student Achievement - Nancy W. Sindelar - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Using Test Data for Student Achievement - Nancy W. Sindelar - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Schools are drowning in test data, but many schools do little with test results other than sort students into various categories of proficiency or lack thereof. Some educators feel testing has taken the joy out of teaching. Others believe valuable instructional time has been lost as a result of testing. Yet, NCBL and other federal and state mandates have placed educators under increasing pressure to make certain all students meet standards on high-stakes tests.Now, more than ever, teachers and administrators need to embrace testing as a valuable classroom tool to guide instruction, use efficient technological resources available for test scoring and analysis, and profit from the benefits of test analysis to increase learning and achievement.Using Test Data for Student Achievement shows educators, step by step, how to use test data to facilitate student learning. The book combines research, technology and Sindelar''s experience as a teacher and administrator to provide practical and efficient ways to use test data to increase learning, close achievement gaps and even raise test scores.

DKK 331.00
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The Malfunction of US Education Policy - Richard P. Phelps - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The Malfunction of US Education Policy - Richard P. Phelps - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The Malfunction of US Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishness biased and inefficient information dissemination that has degraded US education research and policy since the year 2001, when a series of unfortunate disruptions began: - first, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and federal imposition of an idiosyncratic and ineffectual testing program; - second, the “big bang” reorganization of the US education testing industry from a stable, cooperative oligopoly run by psychometricians to a commercially competitive free-for-all with more opportunist and customer-pleasing ambitions; and - third, the Common Core standards, which mandated homogenous lower content standards onto the still required NCLB testing structure. Billions from the federal government and wealthy foundations have transformed many once-independent national education organizations into “cargo cult” dependents and promoters of the new order, intolerant of divergent points of view. The research and policy brain trust responsible comprised an alliance of convenience among two “citation cartels” of establishment and reform scholars and politicos, and an astonishingly cooperative and un-skeptical group of journalists. It succeeded in focusing attention on their work, while diverting attention away from a much larger universe of others’ work (by ignoring, dismissing, or demeaning it) that included a century’s worth of mostly experimental scholarship in the fields of psychology and program evaluation.

DKK 225.00
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Taking Biology Seriously - Inmaculada De Melo Martin - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Taking Biology Seriously - Inmaculada De Melo Martin - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Discussions of human biology and its consequences for ethics and public policy are often misguided. Both proponents and critics of behavioral genetics, reproductive cloning, and genetic testing have mistaken beliefs about the role of genes in human life. Taking Biology Seriously calls attention to the social context in which both the science and our ethical precepts and public policies play a role.

DKK 355.00
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The Dressmaker's Mirror - Susan Weiss Liebman - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

The Dressmaker's Mirror - Susan Weiss Liebman - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

My niece was 36, newly married, and “on top of the world,” when she collapsed and died. Her autopsy report caused us to panic—there was something in our blood that could trigger sudden death. As a mother, I prayed for the curse to spare my children. As a geneticist, I plotted to find the killer. Without planning to do so, I became a medical detective. The book tells of the sorrows a mutation caused my family for generations, revealing a history of resilience and hope. As the stories unfold, I weave in discussions about genetic testing, screening, and gene therapy. The aim is to raise awareness of the crucial role of genetic testing in safeguarding personal health and patient care. I believe I became a geneticist at a time when few women pursued this path because I was destined to help understand the family illness and advocate for genetic testing. Experts agree on the value of genetic testing when there is a family history of disease, or if the patient has an illness frequently caused by a mutation. Knowing the disease mutation lets other family members find out if they have it too and need preventive care. The book explains that doctors can order tests with genetic counseling at relatively low cost and how this will help them prescribe preventive actions, make earlier diagnoses, and get better outcomes. The book’s genetic discussions also delve into the implications of broad-based genetic screening without a family history. Policymakers are currently considering the benefits and drawbacks of this approach and I present both sides of this debate. While working on this book I uncovered a family secret hidden for over one hundred years. Family lore had it that a heavy dressmaker’s mirror fell on and killed my uncle when he was four. But the death certificate told a different story. The true cause of my uncle’s death was heart failure. My grandparents fabricated the dressmaker’s mirror accident to protect their surviving children’s marriage prospects. Long before the discovery of DNA, my grandparents intuited and feared James Watson’s message, "We used to think that our fate was in our stars, but now we know that, in large measure, our fate is in our genes .” The book suggests genetic testing and associated medical intervention can yet change our fates.

DKK 269.00
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Thinking Beyond the Test - Paul A. Wagner - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Thinking Beyond the Test - Paul A. Wagner - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance their insight into cognitive and emotional challenges, even though both teachers and parents recognize the importance of developing deliberative and reflective thinking skills. This book uniquely combines two things. First, it provides resources for classroom teachers in grades 3 – 6 that make it possible for them, at a moment’s notice, to take advantage of a teachable moment by drawing students into productive intellectual discussions. Second, it gives the reader an overview of the rationale and the research base for engaging students in educational activities that are truly intellectual and that are not limited to training for testing success.

DKK 269.00
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Focus on Thinking - Daphne Johnson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Focus on Thinking - Daphne Johnson - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance their insight into cognitive and emotional challenges, even though both teachers and parents recognize the importance of developing deliberative and reflective thinking skills. This book uniquely combines two things. First, it provides resources for classroom teachers in middle and secondary school that make it possible to, at a moment’s notice, take advantage of a teachable moment by drawing students into productive intellectual discussions. Second, it gives the reader an overview of the rationale and the research base for engaging students in educational activities that are truly intellectual and that are not limited to training for testing success.

DKK 225.00
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High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning - David Hursh - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning - David Hursh - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the changes in educational policy in the U.S. and Britain over the last twenty-five years. Hursh argues that education in the States and Britain has been radically transformed, first through efforts to create curricular standards, more recently through an emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and currently, efforts to introduce market competition and private services into educational systems. Hursh offers an alternative to the neoliberal conception of society and education complete with examples of parents who reject the current emphasis on individual success and schools that promote civic-mindedness.

DKK 373.00
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Misguided Education Reform - Nancy E. Bailey - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Misguided Education Reform - Nancy E. Bailey - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America’s public school students. Early childhood education, testing, reading, special education, discipline, loss of the arts, and school facilities, are all areas experiencing reform in the wrong direction. This book says “no” to the reforms that fail, and challenges Americans to address the real student needs that will fix public schools and make America strong.

DKK 381.00
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Returning Sanity to the Classroom - Horace 'rog' Lucido - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Returning Sanity to the Classroom - Horace 'rog' Lucido - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

For nearly fifteen years students and teachers have suffocated under the oppressive regime of high-stakes testing spawned by the No Child Left Behind Act. Returning Sanity to the Classroom: Eliminating the Testing Mania uses the engaging pedagogy of ‘Forgiving Learning’ to give new life and hope to the education landscape. Over the millennia humans have employed a natural method of ‘learning from their mistakes’ to achieve success. They address these faulted situations repeatedly, making appropriate changes along the way. This practice is the heart and soul of our creativity and inventiveness. Returning Sanity to the Classroom presents a classroom method of codifying this natural process of student learning centered on their freedom to readdress academic mistakes without penalty. It includes techniques in developing a relational classroom complete with the intensive use of oral and written language as well as academic coaching. Returning Sanity to the Classroom employs brain compatible strategies advanced by Leslie Hart, Paul Maclean, Karl Jung, Katherine Briggs, Isabel Myers, and Abraham Maslow. It is an answer to the question of how to appropriately stimulate and evaluate student learning.

DKK 355.00
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Morality & Markets - Edward Soule - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Morality & Markets - Edward Soule - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Morality & Markets poses the question: “What morally justifies government intervention in the commercial affairs of private citizens?” Its author, Edward Soule, proposes what he dubs a Regulatory Strategy, a set of rules for determining the moral legitimacy of regulation. The strategy combines the political philosophies of John Locke and John Stuart Mill with economic theory and commercial history. Soule then puts his framework into action, testing the morality of regulation in contemporary commercial disputes, including capital markets and genetically modified foods.

DKK 381.00
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Parents and School Technology - Gerard Giordano - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Parents and School Technology - Gerard Giordano - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Parents had reasons to be alarmed about school technology. They had been warned that these abuses could influence their children’s academic progress, motivation, communication, creativity, critical thinking, job preparedness, and even their safety at school. They had been told that it was linked to controversial instruction, faulty testing, inadequate textbooks, and invasive spyware. Upset by these claims, the parents had numerous questions. This book identifies their questions, the groups to which they directed them, the answers they elicited, and the educational changes they prompted.

DKK 269.00
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Campaign 2012 - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Campaign 2012 - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

" Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy is an indispensable guide to the questions facing White House hopefuls in 2012, as well as the challenges awaiting the winner. It presents authoritative analyses of a dozen key policy issues currently testing the nation: -domestic economic growth -America''s role in the world -the budget deficit -China relations -health care -Afghanistan and Pakistan -federalism -Iran -reforming government institutions -the Middle East -climate change -terrorism This is truly Brookings at its best—independent expert analysis, presented in an accessible manner and offering viable solutions. "

DKK 269.00
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Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy - Robyn Ryle - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy - Robyn Ryle - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

A thought-provoking journey into the complicated history of gender, sexuality, race, and social justice through the world of sports.Have you ever wondered why most cheerleaders are girls? Or why some athletes, like Caster Semenya, have to prove they’re women while there’s no testing for men? And why do athletes like Megan Rapinoe and Colin Kaepernick use sports as a platform for social justice, and should they?These questions and more are examined in Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy: The Evolution of Gender, Identity, and Race in Sports. Robyn Ryle uses the world of sports to examine the history, controversy, and current conversations around sexuality, race, and social justice, bringing in the stories of today’s athletes to highlight the issues. Topics covered include gender segregation, gender testing, transgender athletes, sexuality, homophobia, globalization, race, and activism. Throw Like a Girl, Cheer Like a Boy shows the great strides that have been made in the sports world, but there are still questions that remain and work that needs to be done. This book brings to attention the ways in which sports can contribute to inequalities while also demonstrating how sports can help create a more just world for everyone.

DKK 199.00
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