Racial and socioeconomic segregation is a problem that continues today in American schools. Whereas charter schools have contributed to the exacerbation of school segregation, strategies exist for establishing schools that are diverse-by-design. This project was an examination of diverse-by-design practices in Missouri charter schools. Its purpose…

The world of education is always searching for new and different ways of providing instruction for young learners. The addition of corpus linguistics to the pedagogical environment offers students a unique opportunity to use both online resources and authentic texts at the same time. I have created new pedagogical approaches in this area and gave…

"Assessment of Gifted and High-Ability Learners" equips readers with the knowledge and skills to evaluate and document student progress using a cyclical systematic process. This book: (1) Highlights and explains the importance of curriculum-based assessments; (2) Connects classroom content with the assessment process; (3) Includes sample…

The newest publication in a series of reports on the AAC&U Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) Initiative--?We Have a Rubric for That: The VALUE Approach to Assessment--compiles ten years of evidence to provide an argument-based framework for the assessment of student learning in higher education using the VALUE…

"Ready to Learn" introduces the FRAME model, a results-oriented approach for creating meaningful and motivating learning experience across grade levels and content areas. Rely on the model's five steps--(1) focus, (2) reach, (3) ask, (4) model, and (5) encourage--to help you launch engaging lessons, articulate clear expectations, and…

Assessment is an integral part of any teaching learning process. Assessment practices have a large number of functions to perform in the context of the teaching learning process. Do contemporary assessment practices perform these function is a critical question to be analysed. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the myths and…

"Gamification" is often (incorrectly) assumed to mean using games in the classroom, but its primary purpose is to integrate differentiated strategies of motivation and engagement into a number of activities, including teaching and learning. The authors synthesize research and practice in the field of gamification (also called gamified,…

Peer assessment has proven to be a useful strategy for increasing the timeliness and quantity of formative feedback, as well as for promoting metacognitive thinking among students. Previous research has determined that reviews that contain suggestions can motivate students to revise and improve their work. This paper describes a method for…

Racial and socioeconomic segregation is a problem that continues today in American schools. Whereas charter schools have contributed to the exacerbation of school segregation, strategies exist for establishing schools that are diverse-by-design. This project was an examination of diverse-by-design practices in Missouri charter schools. Its purpose…

Racial and socioeconomic segregation is a problem that continues today in American schools. Whereas charter schools have contributed to the exacerbation of school segregation, strategies exist for establishing schools that are diverse-by-design. This project was an examination of diverse-by-design practices in Missouri charter schools. Its purpose…

Background: A significant body of scholarship has highlighted the importance of improvisation in teaching, particularly the interactional and responsive creativity that is required for teachers to co-construct meaning with students. However, recent efforts inside and outside university-based teacher education have pushed against novice teacher…

This is a conceptual paper based on the existing literature related to three famous language learning theories; Audio-lingual Method, Communicative method and the hypotheses of Stephen D. Krashen. These three schools of thought are not usually seen as similar or it is not common to find much literature regarding these theories having any common…

How does an educator ensure that an audience is receiving an intended message? Further complicating this matter, what happens if the audience members' primary language differs from that of the presenter and the use of an interpreter is not feasible? We explore these questions through a case study based on our experience as three Extension…

In "Maths for Business", a mathematics module for non-mathematics specialists, students are given the choice of completing the module content via short online videos, live lectures or a combination of both. In this study, we identify students' specific usage patterns with both of these resources and discuss their reasons for the…

Group projects are widely used in higher education, but they can be problematic if all group members are given the same grade for a project to which they might not have contributed equally. Most scholars recommend addressing these problems by awarding individual grades, computing some kind of individual weighting factor (IWF) from peer and…