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Raqib Chowdhury, Editor; Huynh Anh Tuan, Editor – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
The book showcases collaborative intercultural research into English language teaching and English language teacher education across Australasia covering a broad range of topics from English education policies, curricular reform and practices, teacher professional development, and teacher and student identities. Together, the selected studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Stancavage, Frances B., Ed.; Bohrnstedt, George W., Ed. – American Institutes for Research, 2013
Since its inception more than four decades ago, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has served as a key indicator of what the nation's students know and can do in academic subjects. NAEP assessments provide a mechanism for putting the achievements of students in all states on a common scale; the assessments also serve as…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, State Standards, Academic Standards, Academic Achievement
Shen, Jianping, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
The vital role of principalship in improving schools in general and enhancing student achievement in particular has been well documented. Given its importance, there is a need for tools to improve principalship, particularly ones emphasizing those dimensions associated with student achievement. Given the accountability movement, with its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Principals, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership
Lissitz, Robert W., Ed.; Schafer, William D., Ed. – 2002
This book originated from a conference arranged to honor the professional contributions of William D. Schafer on his retirement. In recognition of his interest in the subject, each chapter is an effort by one or more professionals to describe what they think the future of assessment should be. The chapters are: (1) What Will Teachers Know about…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Gardner, John R., Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2005
This book provides a comprehensive overview of assessment used to support learning, and it makes this area accessible and understandable for a wise range of users. This unique text is a major source of practice-based theory on assessment for learning, a formative assessment to support individual development and motivate learners. Key areas covered…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Formative Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Student Motivation
Resnick, Lauren B., Ed.; Wirt, John G., Ed. – 1996
This book contains 12 papers commissioned by the Secretary's Commission for Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) to develop the SCANS recommendations concerning the role of standards and assessment in the transition from school to work. "The Changing Workplace" (Lauren B. Resnick, John G. Wirt) offers a summary of the 12 papers.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Policy
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, Thessaloniki (Greece). – 1998
This document contains 10 papers on vocational education and training and related research that were developed for a 1998 European research report titled "Training for a Changing Society." The following papers are included: "Research on Transition" (B. Clasquin, F. Gerardin, V. Toresse); "Objectives, Realisation and…
Descriptors: Communications, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged
Flude, Mike, Ed.; Sieminski, Sandy, Ed. – 1999
This book contains 13 papers on developments in vocational education and training in Great Britain and the future of work. The following papers are included: "Introduction" (Geoff Esland, Mike Flude, Sandy Sieminski); "The Roles of the State and the Social Partners in Vocational Education and Training Systems" (Andy Green);…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Case Studies, Competence, Competency Based Education