Download or read book Mathematics Assessment and Evaluation written by Thomas A. Romberg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are current testing practices consistent with the goals of the reform movement in school mathematics? If not, what are the alternatives? How can authentic performance in mathematics be assessed? These and similar questions about tests and their uses have forced those advocating change to examine the way in which mathematical performance data is gathered and used in American schools. This book provides recent views on the issues surrounding mathematics tests, such as the need for valid performance data, the implications of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics for test development, the identification of valid items and tests in terms of the Standards, the procedures now being used to construct a sample of state assessment tests, gender differences in test taking, and methods of reporting student achievement.
Download or read book English in the Intermediate Division written by Leslie D. McLean and published by Ontario Ministry of Education. This book was released on 1982 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment written by Thomas A. Romberg and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today new ways of thinking about learning call for new ways for monitoring learning. Reform in School Mathematics builds from the vision that assessment can become the bridge for instructional activity, accountability, and teacher development. It places teachers in key roles while developing the theme that we cannot reform the way in which school mathematics is taught without radically reforming the ways the effects of that teaching are monitored. Among others, this volume addresses the issues of the specification of performance standards, the development of authentic tasks, the measure of status and growth or a combination, the development of psychometric models, and the development of scoring rubrics. The new models proposed in this book give teachers a wealth of nontraditional assessment strategies and concrete ways to obtain measures of both group and individual differences in growth.
Download or read book Assessment in English written by Peter J. A. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward a New Science of Educational Testing and Assessment written by Harold Berlak and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-02-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this book question the assumptions of the psychometric paradigm that underlie virtually all criterion-referenced and standardized tests used in North American schools. They make a compelling case for a new science of educational testing and assessment, one that shifts decision making from central administration to individual schools and communities. Harold Berlak argues that the concept of tests as scientific instruments validated by technical experts is anachronistic and self-contradictory. He makes a case for a contextual paradigm, an approach which assumes that consensus on educational goals and national testing programs is neither possible nor desireable. Assessment practices in a democratic society must acknowledge and affirm differences in values, beliefs, and material interests among individuals and groups over the purposes and practices of schooling.
Download or read book Teaching English written by Don Gutteridge and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Gutteridge describes the unique way we read poetry and fiction and offers concrete ideas about how English can be best taught in schools. He argues that students should read literature in the same spirit in which it is written--aesthetically. Similarly, students should be encouraged to create their own stories and poems through a poetic writing process. Teaching English presents six aesthetics-based principles for teaching literature and includes sample lesson plans and annotated lists of resources. Drawing on recent work in psycho-linguistics, rhetoric an learning theory, Teaching English offers a refreshing method for bringing students closer to the English language.
Download or read book Changing Educational Assessment written by Patricia Broadfoot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment is a key area of interest and debate in education. Its increased use by governments as a powerful means of influencing educational practice are now features of the educational scene worldwide. This volume was the first major international review of such developments and it explores the impact of assessment on all areas of education, from teaching skills to policy-making. The contributors take a global perspective to spotlight the common problems facing teachers and students, policy-makers and politicians through the world as they seek to reconcile issues of equity and national development, educational imperatives and finite state resources. The contributions discuss the changing role of assessment and public examinations, and consider such specific issues as the development of a market economy in educational provision, the difficulties of measuring standards in international studies, and accreditation of absolute rather than relative competencies.
Download or read book Curriculum Series written by Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory of education studies in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation and Assessment in Mathematics Education written by David F. Robitaille and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Update 84 written by Ontario. Ministry of Education and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980, the Ontario Ministry of education published "Issues and Directions," a set of initiatives drafted in response to the effects of declining school enrollments in Ontario. This publication is a retrospective report, looking back at the initiatives set out in "Issues and Directions" and reporting on their results as of March 1984. After a brief introductory section, the remaining six sections are organized according to the major groupings of information in "Issues and Directions": (1) educational goals, program organization, and curriculum; (2) educational finance, operating grants, and school accommodation measures; (3) the teaching profession, teacher education, certification, and professional development; (4) governance and administration; (5) French-language elementary and secondary education; and (6) anticipating and preparing for the future. Within each section, results are grouped by topic. Summary tables have been included to facilitate the linking of initiative results with the two- and three-starred items of "Issues and Directions." A list of references is provided, along with a guide to acronyms. (TE)
Download or read book Assessing Educational Achievement written by Desmond L. Nuttall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Curriculum Development for Effective Instruction written by Floyd G. Robinson and published by Toronto, Ont. : Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. This book was released on 1985 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning about Teaching from Comparative Studies written by Leslie D. McLean and published by Ontario Ministry of Education. This book was released on 1987 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was planned as a documentation and analysis of mathematics education. The objective was to learn about the teaching ofmathematics--what was taught, how it was taught and what methods were mostsuccessful. By comparing and contrasting the findings from small and largecountries around the world, both developed and developing, greaterunderstanding can be reached than if studies are done separately in onecountry at a time. School organization was documented and social classmeasured as correlates of the curriculum and teaching methods as well as ofachievement.
Download or read book Alberta Journal of Educational Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educational Policy for Effective Schools written by Mark Holmes and published by OISE Press contributors, John Davis...[et al.] ; [New York] : Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
