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Beyond Bulimic Learning: Improving Teaching in Further Education
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Coffield, Frank; Costa, Cristina; Müller, Walter; Webber, John – Trentham Books, 2014
Students are bingeing on large amounts of information and then, in government induced bouts of vomiting otherwise known as national tests, they spew it all out. This is how Frank Coffield introduces the term Bulimia Academica, which he treats every bit as seriously as its medical counterpart. Students resort to bulimic learning to cope with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Government Role, Student Improvement
High-­Stakes Schooling: What We Can Learn from Japan's Experiences with Testing, Accountability, and Education Reform
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Bjork, Christopher – University of Chicago Press, 2015
If there is one thing that describes the trajectory of American education, it is this: more high-stakes testing. In the United States, the debates surrounding this trajectory can be so fierce that it feels like we are in uncharted waters. As Christopher Bjork reminds us in this study, however, we are not the first to make testing so central to…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Testing, Accountability, Educational Change
Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills. Current Perspectives on Cognition, Learning and Instruction
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Schraw, Gregory, Ed.; Robinson, Daniel H., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
This volume examines the assessment of higher order thinking skills from the perspectives of applied cognitive psychology and measurement theory. The volume considers a variety of higher order thinking skills, including problem solving, critical thinking, argumentation, decision making, creativity, metacognition, and self-regulation. Fourteen…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Evaluation, Cognitive Psychology, Measurement
Being Smart about Gifted Education: A Guidebook for Parents and Educators (2nd Edition)
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Matthews, Dona J.; Foster, Joanne F. – Great Potential Press, Inc., 2009
Written for both parents and educators who work with children of advanced abilities, the authors present practical strategies to identify and nurture exceptionally high ability in children. They promote the "mastery" (rather than the "mystery") model of gifted education, and challenge several common practices and assumptions. They offer ways to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Special Education, Models
Faster Isn't Smarter: Messages about Math, Teaching, and Learning in the 21st Century
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Seeley, Cathy L. – Math Solutions, 2009
NCTM Past President Cathy L. Seeley shares her messages on today's most relevant topics and issues in education. Based on Cathy L. Seeley's award-winning NCTM President's Messages, and including dozens of new messages, this must-have K-12 resource offers straight talk and common sense about some of today's most important, thought-provoking issues…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Achievement Gap, Creativity
Educational Assessment
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Hogan, Thomas P. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2005
Following a practical approach, this book focuses on educational assessment as it is practiced today, in the actual world of classrooms, school systems, state departments, and national organizations. It first covers the basic concepts applicable to all types of assessment: statistical concepts, reliability, validity, and interpretive frameworks.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Statistics, Test Reliability, Test Validity