Moving Beyond Test Scores
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Beyond Test Scores
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Author : Jack Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-14
Beyond Test Scores written by Jack Schneider and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-14 with Education categories.
Test scores are the go-to metric of policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the best schools. Yet standardized tests are a poor way to measure school performance. Using the diverse urban school district of Somerville MA as a case study, Jack Schneider’s team developed a new framework to assess educational effectiveness.
Moving Beyond Technicism In English Language Teacher Education
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Author : Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2019-08-01
Moving Beyond Technicism In English Language Teacher Education written by Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-01 with Education categories.
Drawing attention to the threats that an overreliance on teaching techniques poses for teacher creativity, student voice, and the well-being of democracy, Moving beyond Technicism in English-Language Teacher Education advocates a critical approach to education. Using the author’s own personal experiences, this book offers a critical analysis of the technicist English-language teacher education programs introduced by Turkey’s Council of Higher Education in the neoliberal period. Beginning with the implementation of critical education at the Village Institutes in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the book documents how teacher education practices in Turkey evolved from liberatory to mechanic with the influence of the Cold War. By demonstrating the author’s own critical teacher education practices, the book explores the impact of critical teacher education on pre-service and in-service teachers’ perceptions and practice. Highlighting the ethical responsibilities of educators, the book calls for a critical, democratic, and humanizing approach to teacher preparation.
Moving Beyond Anxiety
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Author : David Chadwick
language : en
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Release Date : 2020-03-24
Moving Beyond Anxiety written by David Chadwick and has been published by Harvest House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with Religion categories.
12 Ways God Can Help You Conquer Anxiety Do you feel like a cloud of worry follows wherever you go? Do you dread the unknown? In today’s anxiety economy its raising stress levels, it’s no secret that fear is often at the root of our problems. The key to overcoming your anxiety is found in the person of Jesus. He calls us to trust rather than despair—to “not be anxious” (Matthew 6:25), and to cast all our cares on him (1 Peter 5:7). Author David Chadwick shares 12 ways you can overcome life’s fears and worries—all of which come straight from Scripture and include… focusing on faith praying caring for your health remembering God’s promises finding good teammates developing an eternal perspective Moving Beyond Anxiety will equip you to defeat worry and fear by trusting God and exercising your faith daily. As you immerse yourself in God’s truth, you will discover it is truly the most powerful antidote to anxiety.
Handbook Of The Sociology Of Education In The 21st Century
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Author : Barbara Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-10-10
Handbook Of The Sociology Of Education In The 21st Century written by Barbara Schneider and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-10 with Social Science categories.
This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today’s populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences of inequality. This handbook, while reviewing many of these explanations, takes a different approach, concentrating instead on what needs to be accomplished to reduce inequality. A special section is devoted to new methodological work for studying social systems, including network analyses and school and teacher effects. Additionally, the book explores the changing landscape of higher education institutions, their respective populations, and how labor market opportunities are enhanced or impeded by differing postsecondary education pathways. Written by leading sociologists and rising stars in the field, each of the chapters is embedded in theory, but contemporary and futuristic in its implications. This Handbook serves as a blueprint for identifying new work for sociologists of education and other scholars and policymakers trying to understand many of the problems of inequality in education and what is needed to address them.
Moving Beyond Test Scores
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Author : Chad Ellwood Mabery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Moving Beyond Test Scores written by Chad Ellwood Mabery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Standardized test scores continue to the ultimate measure of school success. With $14 billion in annual federal funds directed towards low SES or Title I schools, the stakes are high. Policy-makers are dangling grants, takeover, closure, and everything in between for schools, all based on test scores. For non-Title I schools, a different story is being plays out. Student demographics - the greatest predictor of academic achievement - plays in their favor. Judged by the test scores from all socioeconomic areas, non-Title I high schools appear to be consistently successful. On the surface, there appears to be no impetus to improve student learning. Yet, disaggregation of achievement data found minimal improvement in academic achievement during the last 12 years in non-Title I high schools. Furthermore, the relationship between student demographics and academic achievement leaves no quick fixes for non-Title I high schools. This study was designed to examine the nature of potential relationships between a set of academic variables - rigor, connectedness, and climate - and academic achievement in non-Title I high schools. Data that represents these three academic variables were selected from an analysis of past literature. A factor analysis was utilized to establish valid and representative scores for academic rigor, school connectedness, and school climate. A regression analysis was then run between the independent variables and API score, while controlling for a set of student demographics, to determine what significant influence each variable had on student achievement. This study recommends seven resiliency skill development strategies for non-Title I high schools to improve academic achievement. Resiliency theory has been well-documented in schools and students that overcame social and economic challenges. This study suggests that even in high schools with fewer economic and demographic challenges, resiliency and connectedness was still important, and might be one of the few factors educators in these schools can influence to improve student achievement.
Handbook Of The Economics Of Education
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Author : Eric A. Hanushek
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2010-11-11
Handbook Of The Economics Of Education written by Eric A. Hanushek and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-11 with Education categories.
How does education affect economic and social outcomes, and how can it inform public policy?Volume 3 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education uses newly available high quality data from around the world to address these and other core questions. With the help of new methodological approaches, contributors cover econometric methods and international test score data. They examine the determinants of educational outcomes and issues surrounding teacher salaries and licensure. And reflecting government demands for more evidence-based policies, they take new looks at institutional feaures of school systems. Volume editors Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford), Stephen Machin (University College London) and Ludger Woessmann (Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich) draw clear lines between newly emerging research on the economics of education and prior work. In conjunction with Volume 4, they measure our current understanding of educational acquisition and its economic and social effects. - Uses rich data to study issues of high contemporary policy relevance - Demonstrates how education serves as an important determinant of economic and social outcomes - Benefits from the globalization of research in the economics of education
Choices And Challenges
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Author : Priscilla Wohlstetter
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Choices And Challenges written by Priscilla Wohlstetter and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Education categories.
As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused. Many studies are narrowly focused; some do not meet the standards for high-quality academic research. In this definitive work, Wohlstetter and her colleagues isolate and distill the high-quality research on charter schools to identify the contextual and operational factors that influence these schools’ performances. The authors examine the track record of the charter sector in light of the wide range of goals set for these schools in state authorizing legislation—at the classroom level, the level of the school community, and system-wide. In particular, they show how the evolution of the charter movement has shaped research questions and findings. By highlighting what we know about the conditions for success in charter schools, the authors make a significant contribution to current debates in policy and practice, both within the charter sector and in the larger landscape of public education.
Test Wiseness
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Test Wiseness written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Educational tests and measurements categories.
Professional Evaluation
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Author : Ernest R. House
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Release Date : 1993
Professional Evaluation written by Ernest R. House and has been published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Political Science categories.
The book provides an in-depth examination of the history and discipline of evaluation, as well as its treatment of the subjects of ethics, justice, and professionalism. . . . The strength of the book is, without question, Ernest R. House′s many years of experience as an evaluator and his proposition that evaluation, as an institution, profession, and discipline, represents a strong and significant force in the process of social change. --Evaluation and Program Planning "This book pushes back the frontiers Ernest R. House has already established with his previous work in the political and social dimensions of professional evaluation. It represents the thoughtful reflections of an experienced evaluator with an unusual talent for original perspectives on this complex and vital emergent discipline." --Michael Scriven, Director, Evaluation Institute, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology "For 25 years, Ernest R. House has watched us who specialize in program evaluation, recording and interpreting in the best of qualitative ways, the maturation of our field. In this book, he portrays us as white collar migrant workers; carded, coddled, and manipulated by governments, reluctant to leave the comfort of social science but having outgrown that dependency, reaching toward what Michael Scriven called a transdiscipline. If Lee Cronbach once made us wince by revealing our political blood, House startles us, exposing neural ties with ethics, technocracy, capitalism, manifest destiny, even craniometry. Popping bluerock metaphors from liberal left to libertarian right, House declares us to be complex creature of nature and nurture, seldom acting of our own free will. It is a magical, mythological tour. "Never before has the special work of the program evaluator been shown to be immersed in and buffeted by such a diverse array of social, political, and philosophical currents. In an appealing mix of personal reminiscence and social commentary, Ernie House has collected a fine album of the early years of program evaluation." --Robert E. Stake, Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Why do we have evaluation? Is evaluation a discipline? How much impact does evaluation have on government, education, or politics? Can social problems, such as poverty, be solved like engineering problems by the application of resources and intelligence? By exploring how evaluation has evolved as a discipline, science, and profession, House examines how evaluation impacts modern societies and the issues that this impact (social force) raises for evaluators. Addressing such issues as pluralism vs. managerialism, quantitative vs. qualitative methodologies, the purpose of higher education for knowledge production vs. educating people for professions, clientism, and multicultural concerns, House traces how evaluation has evolved as a basis for determining where the field should go--and, how.
Moving Beyond Test Scores How Teachers Influence Student Participation In Extracurricular Activities
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Author : Ashley Pollard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Moving Beyond Test Scores How Teachers Influence Student Participation In Extracurricular Activities written by Ashley Pollard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Education categories.
When assessing public school quality, researchers, policymakers, and families tend to emphasize standardized test scores. While the shift toward standardized testing has illuminated important relationships among student demographic characteristics and academic achievement, it has also altered the public’s educational values. This research intends to identify a relationship between teacher perceptions of themselves and of their students and their students’ participation in extracurricular activities. More generally, it attempts to explore if education stakeholders can deviate their focus from test scores to student engagement and participation when evaluating school quality. If the education field has stronger signals of school quality, policymakers may be able to approach accountability from a different perspective. They may transition from test-score centered accountability to student-centered accountability. Using cross-sectional data from a longitudinal study developed by the National Center for Education Statistics of the Institute of Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education, this research will estimate the effect of 8th grade teachers’ self-efficacy and beliefs about student learning capabilities on the likelihood of 8th grade student participation in extracurricular activities.