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High Stakes Testing - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Meet the challenges of high stakes testing in the practice of school psychology School psychologists can be a positive influence on how students, teachers, parents, schools, and communities cope with the challenges and opportunities associated with high stakes testing. Unfortunately, there has been a significant lack of literature to guide school psychologists and related school-based practitioners on this topic. High Stakes Testing: New Challenges and Opportunities for School Psychology is a timely groundbreaking book that provides useful and thought-provoking information to help psychologists meet the challenges of high stakes testing and create new roles for themselves in helping children succeed. This book discusses practical ways to help provide academic support to facilitate student success on high stakes tests, reduce the impact of stress associated with high stakes testing, assess the data from the tests to improve programs, and take a leadership role in the appropriate use of the tests. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001(NCLB) and its accountability provisions has helped create and sustain a climate where student performance on state-created achievement tests often has high stakes implications for students, families, and schools. High Stakes Testing: New Challenges and Opportunities for School Psychology provides important background information about high stakes testing, including the legal, historical, and political context of high stakes testing, pertinent psychometrics, and a review of research on academic and non-academic outcomes as it relates to high stakes testing. Using this information as a foundation, the book then identifies new roles and opportunities for school psychologists with respect to high stakes testing. This book is comprehensively referenced. Topics in High Stakes Testing: New Challenges and Opportunities for School Psychology include: - - advocating for the appropriate use of state-wide assessments - - the influence of item response theory (IRT) on the development of high stakes tests - - whether the accountability system of NCLB is truly improving student’s learning - - the impact of high stakes tests on classroom instruction and student motivation - - strategies for helping students succeed on high stakes tests - - available resources to cope with the stress of high stakes testing - - - and more High Stakes Testing: New Challenges and Opportunities for School Psychology is a thought-provoking, horizon-expanding resource for school psychologists, public school educators, administrators, school counselors, curriculum coordinators, and special education teachers involved in organizing, administering, and preparing students to take high stakes tests.

DKK 376.00

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Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing - Carl Whithaus - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book takes on a daunting task: How do writing teachers continue to work toward preparing students for academic and real-world communication situations, while faced with the increasing use of standardized high-stakes testing? Teachers need both the technical ability to deal with this reality and the ideological means to critique the information technologies and assessment methods that are transforming the writing classroom. Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing serves this dual need by offering a theoretical framework, actual case studies, and practical methods for evaluating student writing. By examining issues in writing assessment--ranging from the development of electronic portfolios to the impact of state-wide, standards-based assessment methods on secondary and post-secondary courses--this book discovers four situated techniques of authentic assessment that are already in use at a number of locales throughout the United States. These techniques stress:* interacting with students as communicators using synchronous and asynchronous environments;* describing the processes and products of student learning rather than enumerating deficits;* situating pedagogy and evaluation within systems that incorporate rather than exclude local variables; and* distributing assessment among diverse audiences.By advocating for a flexible system of communication-based assessment in computer-mediated writing instruction, this book validates teachers'' and students'' experiences with writing and also acknowledges the real-world weight of the new writing components on the SAT and ACT, as well as on state-mandated standardized writing and proficiency exams.

DKK 322.00

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An Introduction To Multistage Testing Ame V19#3 - Lawrence Erlbaum Associates - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners: A National Perspective presents three significant studies, each examining a different aspect of states'' strategies for including English language learners in state assessments. An Analysis of State Assessment Policies Regarding Accommodations for English Language Learners; A Survey and Description of Test Translation Practices; and An Examination of State Practices for Reporting Participation and Performance of English Language Learners in State Assessments. This issue focuses on the topic of ''An Introduction to Multistage Testing''.

DKK 307.00

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Defending A High School Graduation Test - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This special issue is a case study of a recent legal challenge to a graduation test, GI Forum v. Texas Education Agency . Its purpose is to provide updated, relevant information to the many statewide and district testing programs, measurement professionals, and policymakers currently involved with the implementation of new educational standards and tests. The GI Forum Court''s decision provides a road map for creating legally defensible graduation tests, and by analogy, may also provide useful guidance for other high stakes uses of standardized achievement tests. The GI Forum case is an extension of the landmark Debra P. v. Turlington case.

DKK 353.00

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Computers in Company Training - David Hawkridge - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

When this book was originally published in 1988, this book was the first to include a large number of reports on British and US companies'' experience with computers in company training in such areas as banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, IT, the retail industry, transport, telecommunications and energy. It provided a critical analysis of the situation and discusses company experiences, development, testing and implementation as well as cost-effectiveness and future trends.

DKK 278.00

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Mastering the BMAT - George Rendel - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This is the first BMAT theory and practice book on the market, providing not only practice questions but breaking down the BMAT exam step-by-step. The authors, both leading specialists in BMAT training, focus on each section in turn, using many sample questions to carefully illustrate the theory rather than simply testing rote learning. A concluding mock exam allows candidates to consolidate learning through self-assessment, with model answers to refer to at the end.

DKK 255.00

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Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory Workbook - Patrick Jones - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The book presents lab exercises that place crime scene investigation into the overarching context of forensic science, separating what evidence and information can be derived from the crime scene and preliminary tests, versus advanced drug, ballistics, and other such testing back at the lab. This is to clearly distinguish those individuals who collect the evidence from those who solely work within the lab analyzing. The book presents lab exercises that can be completed within two-hour windows while offering the appropriate amount of content and level of rigor necessary to properly train students on procedure, methods, and the scientific process.

DKK 380.00

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Writing in English for the Medical Sciences - Steve (english Language Editor And Resource Writer Hart - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This practical and portable guide has been designed specifically to help academics and students in medicine and surgery departments at universities all over the world, who are required to write in English to maximize exposure to their research, produce professional and accurate academic English and eradicate the errors that occur at all levels from bad habits or gaps in knowledge. By identifying likely mistakes and then instructing the writers on how to correct them, with exercises to encourage self testing, this easily accessible and at-a-glance resource can be kept readily to hand as an invaluable companion during the course of writing an essay, thesis or paper.

DKK 329.00

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Forensic Science Laboratory Techniques Workbook - Patrick Jones - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The book presents lab exercises of evidence analysis performed back in the crime lab or private laboratory. Distinguishing advanced analyses and testing done on all evidence had been gathered from the crime scene. This is to clearly distinguish CSIs who collect the evidence from those who work within the lab environment analyzing the various evidence submitted to such labs. The book presents lab exercises that can be completed within two-hour windows while offering the appropriate amount of content and level of rigor necessary to properly train students on procedure, methods, and the scientific process in ballistics, fingerprints, inks, hairs, the autopsy, and post-mortem interval.

DKK 380.00

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Educational Psychology - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

First published in 2001.This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language disorders. Rebecca McCauley describes specific commonly used tools as well as general approaches ranging from traditional standardized norm referenced testing to more recent ones such as dynamic and culturally valid assessment. Highlighting special considerations in testing and expected patterns of performance, she reviews the challenges presented by children with a variety of problems-specific language impairment, hearing loss, mental retardation, and autism spectrum disorders. Three extended case examples illustrate her discussion of each of these target groups. Her overarching theme is the crucial role of well-formed questions as fundamental guides to decision making, independent of approach. Each chapter features lists of key concepts and terms, study questions, and recommended readings. Tables throughout offer succinct summaries and aids to memory. Students, their instructors, and speech-language pathologists continuing their professional education will all welcome this invaluable new resource. Special features include: a comprehensive consideration of both psychometric and descriptive approaches to the characterization of children''s language; a detailed discussion of background issues important in the language assessment of four groups of children with language impairment; timely information on assessment of change-a topic frequently not covered in other texts; extensive guidance on how to evaluate individual norm-referenced measures for adoption; an extensive appendix listing about SO measures used to assess language in children, and a test review guide that can be reproduced for use by readers.

DKK 321.00

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What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests - Charles Fuhrken - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

When he was a student struggling to concentrate on dreadfully boring passages of standardized reading tests, Charles Fuhrken remembers thinking to himself, ''Who writes this stuff?'' He had no idea that one day it would be him. '' Fuhrken has spent years working as a writer for several major testing companies, and he believes that what he''s learned about testing could be very usefuleven liberatingfor teachers interested in teaching effective reading strategies as well as preparing students for reading tests. In What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests (From Someone Who Has Written Them), Fuhrken'' takes the mystery out of reading tests. He explains how reading tests are created, how standards are interpreted and assessed, and how students can apply their knowledge of reading to standardized tests.'' '' What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests sets the record straight about the myths and realities of tests and offers extensive, practical strategies that help students perform well on test day. This ready to use, easy to understand resource provides a wealth of information about reading tests, including high-quality preparation materials; samples of the most frequently assessed reading standards; and more than thirty engaging, core-reading activities. '' Tests require a special kind of savvy, a kind of critical thinking and knowledge-application that is not always a part of classroom reading experiences. That''s why teachers need to provide students with sound, specific information about reading tests. Only then can students feel prepared and confident on test day. ''

DKK 292.00

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Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Nancy Klimas - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Because of the individual and varying symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, medical guidelines encompassing the needs of every patient simply do not exist. Through proven research and recommendations for future treatment, Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical, Legal, and Patient Perspectives discusses the difficult subject of how to diagnose disability in chronic fatigue syndrome patients, how to determine the severity of a patient’s disability, and how new disability guidelines would make more chronic fatigue patients eligible to apply for disability benefits. From this information, you will gain a clearer understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome, enabling you to more accurately assess a patient’s condition or decide if your client is eligible for disability benefits. Essential for clinicians, lawyers, patients, and medical insurers, Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome provides an outline of disability guidelines established by the Social Security Administration (SSA), the Veterans’Administration, and the American Medical Association, as well as federal guidelines. While gaining information on the different types of disability insurance available to chronic fatigue patients, such as the Long Term Disability (LTD) policy, you will also learn how standard procedures such as psychiatric evaluation, neuropsychological testing, and physical capacity measurement can both help and hinder the process of determining disability in a patient. In addition, Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome provides insight into: - - the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, such as inability to work and level of stamina, in accordance with medical and legal definitions - - disability guidelines set by the SSA - - how patients’varying symptoms and conflicting findings affect disability diagnosis in chronic fatigue syndrome patients by SSA standards - - plans by the Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) Association of America to work with the SSA concerning strategies to dissolve barriers to Social Security Disability Income Benefits for patients and to advocate for up-to-date information on CFIDS in the SSA’s Listing of Impairments. - - tips on applying for SSA benefits - - claims that insurance companies have used misleading surveillance videos and fraud to discontinue disability benefits to patients in need of coverage - Since the Social Security Administration does not currently consider a CFIDS diagnosis enough to win a disability claim, Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome also contains many recommendations for improving federal disability guidelines, such as using results from functional evaluations, neuropsychological testing, and exercise endurance testing as evidence of impairment. For less severe cases, this book provides you with suggestions for rehabilitation of CFS patients before disability claims are made, including patient training and education, dependency counseling, muscular conditioning, and occupational therapy. Whether you are a patient, clinician, lawyer, or medical insurer, Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome will guide you through the complex issues surrounding disability and this intricate disease.

DKK 305.00

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Rhetorical Agendas - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This edited collection offers a broad consideration of contemporary rhetorical scholarship, tied to political, ethical, and spiritual themes. Originating from the 2004 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, the contents of this volume reflects the conference themes of rhetorical agendas in current theory and research. The volume starts off with transcripts of the talks presented by the conference''s featured speakers. The essays that follow are organized around five key topics: history, theory, pedagogy, publics, and gender. These chapters address subjects ranging from religious identity to civil rights; from weapons of mass destruction to literacy testing and electronic texts, reflecting the wide array of areas under study across the rhetoric discipline. With contributions from well-known scholars as well as newcomers, the breadth and diversity of this collection make a significant contribution to rhetorical scholarship, and will stimulate additional work. As such, the volume will be of interest to scholars and students in rhetoric studies in speech communication, English, and related disciplines.

DKK 300.00

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Leadership Challenges in High Schools - W. Norton Grubb - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Principals are responsible for an increasing range of duties in an era of school reform, standardized testing, and more. These responsibilities are even greater in high schools, which are many times larger and more complex than elementary and middle schools. Yet little has been written on the special challenges of high schools and their leadership. This book fills the gap by exploring the challenges specific to high schools, including their size and complexity, the special difficulties in improving instruction, the crucial role of high schools for students'' futures, adolescent behavioral issues, and many more. Grubb shows how principals and other leaders can address the complexities of multiple pathways, or efforts to create theme-based trajectories through high school - one of the most promising high school reforms. Looking to the future, he offers alternative ways of preparing professionals for high schools, and the responsibilities of districts for improving high schools and their leadership.

DKK 357.00

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Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere - Daniel J. Sherman - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

In 1979, provoked by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, governors of states hosting disposal facilities for low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) refused to accept additional shipments. The resulting shortage of disposal sites for wastes spurred Congress to devolve responsibility for establishing new, geographically diffuse LLRW disposal sites to states and regional compacts, with siting authorities often employing socio-economic and political data to target communities that would give little resistance to their plans.The communities, however, were far from compliant, organizing nearly 1000 opposition events that ended up blocking the implementation of any new disposal sites. Sherman provides comprehensive coverage of this opposition, testing hypotheses regarding movement mobilization and opposition strategy by analyzing the frequency and disruptive qualities of activism. In the process, he bridges applied policy questions about hazardous waste disposal with broader questions about the dynamics of social movements and the intergovernmental politics of policy implementation. The issues raised in this book are sure to be renewed as interest grows in nuclear power and the disposal of the resulting waste remains uncertain.

DKK 264.00

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An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching - Keith (university Of Lancaster Johnson - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching provides an engaging, student-friendly guide to the field of foreign language learning and teaching. Aimed at students with no background in the area and taking a task-based approach, this book: - - introduces the theoretical and practical aspects of both learning and teaching; - provides discussion and workshop activities throughout each chapter of the book, along with further reading and reflection tasks; - deals with classroom- and task-based teaching, and covers lesson planning and testing, making the book suitable for use on practical training courses; - analyses different learning styles and suggests strategies to improve language acquisition; - includes examples from foreign language learning in Russian, French, and German, as well as English; - is accompanied by a brand new companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/johnson, which contains additional material, exercises, and weblinks. - Written by an experienced teacher and author, An Introduction to Foreign Language Learning and Teaching is essential reading for students beginning their study in the area, as well as teachers in training and those already working in the field.

DKK 382.00

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Readicide - Kelly Gallagher - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Read-i-cide: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools. Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline, poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment. In this provocative book Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It , author and teacher Kelly Gallagher suggests it is time to recognize a new and significant contributor to the death of reading: our schools. Readicide , Gallagher argues that American schools are actively (though unwittingly) furthering the decline of reading. Specifically, he contends that the standard instructional practices used in most schools are killing reading by:Valuing standardized testing over the development of lifelong readersMandating breadth over depth in instructionRequiring students to read difficult texts without proper instructional support and insisting students focus on academic textsIgnoring the importance of developing recreational readingLosing sight of authentic instruction in the looming shadow of political pressuresReadicide provides teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators with specific steps to reverse the downward spiral in reading-;steps that will help prevent the loss of another generation of readers.