Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education
This book reviews and synthesizes relevant research from economics, psychology, education, and related fields about how incentives work in educational accountability systems. The book helps identify circumstances in which test-based incentives may have a positive or a negative impact on student learning and offers recommendations for how to improve current test-based accountability policies. The most important directions for further research are also highlighted.
Learning Democracy in School and Society: Education, Lifelong Learning, and the Politics of Citizenship
This book explores the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship. It emphasises the importance of the democratic quality of the processes and practices that make up the everyday lives of children, young people and adults for their ongoing formation as democratic citizens. The book combines theoretical and historical work with critical analysis of policies and wider developments in the field of citizenship education and civic learning.
Based on worldwide literature on the topic and over fifteen years of research by the author, it includes chapters on self, peer, collaborative, and group assessment and feedback, as well as a look at key issues such as reliability, viability, and maintenance of quality. Problems associated with student involvement are also explored and practical solutions that can be implemented are discussed.
New Headway Intermediate, Third Edition Teacher's Resource Book
Added by: decabristka | Karma: 68115.34 | Coursebooks, Only for teachers | 1 November 2011
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The best-selling series with a proven methodology - a course that teachers can trust in the classroom. Teacher's Resource Book provides photocopiable games and activities to supplement the main course materials. Can be used with any English course for this level.
Contentious Issues - Discussion Stories for Young People
Challenging prejudice, sterotyping and judgemental behaviour, this volume consists of 40 discussion stories which reflect society and the problems young people face today. Aimed at promoting discussion and awareness, the author challenges young people to consider events and the part they themselves play in life, thus producing more responsible and independantly thinking young adults. In particular, children with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism often have difficulty coming to grips with social situations, so that the stories in this volume should be especially useful for those working with such children.