Designing and Analyzing Language Tests with CD-ROM (Handbooks for Language Teachers)
Who This Book Is For? The book is intended for two groups: students in introductory language testing courses (and naturally their instructors), and language teachers who need to create tests for themselves or their school or program, or who have test results that need analyzing. I have tried to make it something that will be useful for both groups, a textbook for students like the ones I teach in my own testing course, and a handbook or guide for teachers who may have no training in language assessment but who nonetheless have to make tests or make sense of testing data.
This expanded and updated second edition of a classic bestseller continues to take the "mystery" out of designing and analyzing algorithms and their efficacy and efficiency.
We all engage in the process of reasoning, but we don't always pay attention to whether we are doing it well. This book offers the opportunity to practise reasoning in a clear-headed and critical way, with the aims of developing an awareness of the importance of reasoning well and of improving the reader's skill in analyzing and evaluating arguments.
Analyzing Interactions in CSCL - Methods, Approaches and Issues
Analyzing Interactions in CSCL - Methodology, Approaches, and Issues deepens the understanding of ways to document and analyze interactions in CSCL and informs the design of the next generation of CSCL tools. It provides researchers with several alternative methodologies, theoretical underpinnings of the methods used, data indicating how the method worked, guidance for using the methods, implications for understanding collaborative processes and their effect on learning outcomes and implications for design. CSCL research tends to span across several disciplines such as education, psychology, computer science and artificial intelligence.
Action Research: A Methodology for Change and Development
This book presents a fresh view of action research as a methodology uniquely suited to researching the processes of innovation and change. Drawing on twenty-five years' experience of leading or facilitating action research projects, Bridget Somekh argues that action research can be a powerful systematic intervention, which goes beyond describing, analyzing and theorizing practices to reconstruct and transform those practices
