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Assessment in Education: Implications for Leadership
This book provides key insights into how educational leaders can successfully navigate the turbulence of political debate surrounding leading student assessment and professionalised practice. Given the highly politicised nature of assessment, it addresses leaders and aspiring leaders who are open to being challenged, willing to explore controversy, and capable of engaging in informed critical d…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-23398-7
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- XIV, 314
- Series Title
- The Enabling Power of Assessment
- Call Number
- 371.26 ASS a
Assessment for Learning: Meeting the Challenge of Implementation
This book provides new perspectives on Assessment for Learning (AfL), on the challenges encountered in its implementation, and on the diverse ways of meeting these challenges. It brings together contributions from authors working in a wide range of educational contexts: Australia, Canada, England, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Israel, Philippines, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Unite…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-39211-0
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- XXIV, 363
- Series Title
- The Enabling Power of Assessment
- Call Number
- 371.26 ASS a
Assessment for Learning Within and Beyond the Classroom: Taylor’s 8th Teach…
These conference proceedings focus on “Assessment for Learning: Within and Beyond the Classroom” in recognition of the power of assessment for learning as a way of boosting student performance. They explore the breadth, depth and quality of the best models and practices, strategies, lessons learnt and discuss cases of successful implementation of assessment within the classroom and beyond, …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-981-10-0908-2
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- X, 446
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- -
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- 371.26 ASS a
Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills: Methods and Approach
This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills. Readers are guided through a detailed description of the methods used in this process. The first volume was published by Springer in 2012 (Griffin, P., McGaw, B. & Care, E., Eds., Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills, Dordrecht: Springer). The …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-017-9395-7
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- XII, 310
- Series Title
- Educational Assessment in an Information Age
- Call Number
- 371.26 ASS a
Assessing Young Learners of English: Global and Local Perspectives
This volume documents international, national, and small-scale testing and assessment projects of English language education for young learners, across a range of educational contexts. It covers three main areas: age-appropriate ‘can do statements’ and task types for teaching and testing learners between the ages of 6 to 13; innovative approaches to self-assessment, diagnostic testing, self…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-22422-0
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- XII, 338
- Series Title
- Educational Linguistics
- Call Number
- 370.15 ASS a
Music Practices Across Borders (E)Valuating Space, Diversity and Exchange
Klavier plus Streichquartett. Im vierstelligen Bereich sind Werke bekannt. In mittlerer dreistelliger Zahl als Tonaufnahme zugänglich. Über 200 Jahre kontinuierliche Produktion. Bis heute. Und doch fehlt das Genre weitgehend in den Leitmedien Klassischer Musik. In den meinungsführenden Feuilletons und Musikgeschichtswerken. Und in den Programmen der prestigeträchtigen Rundfunksender und Lab…
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- 9783839446676
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Assessing Mathematical Literacy: The PISA Experience
This book describes the design, development, delivery and impact of the mathematics assessment for the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). First, the origins of PISA’s concept of mathematical literacy are discussed, highlighting the underlying themes of mathematics as preparation for life after school and mathematical modelling of the real world, and clarifying PISA’…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-10121-7
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- XXI, 321
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- -
- Call Number
- 379.1 ASS a
Handbook of Materials Structures, Properties, Processing and Performance
This extensive knowledge base provides a coherent description of advanced topics in materials science and engineering with an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary approach. The book incorporates a historical account of critical developments and the evolution of materials fundamentals, providing an important perspective for materials innovations, including advances in processing, selection, chara…
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- 978-3-319-01814-0
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- XIV, 1152
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- 141 LAW h
Creating Models in Psychological Research
This concise reference serves as a companion to traditional research texts by focusing on such essentials as model construction, robust methodologies and defending a compelling hypothesis. Designed to wean Master's and doctorate-level students as well as new researchers from their comfort zones, the book challenges readers to engage in multi-method approaches to answering multidisciplinary ques…
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- 1
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- 9783319157535
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- XXI, 126
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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- 150
Ultrafast Phenomena XIX Proceedings of the 19th International Conference, Ok…
This book presents the latest advances in ultrafast science, including both ultrafast optical technology and the study of ultrafast phenomena. It covers picosecond, femtosecond, and attosecond processes relevant to applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. Ultrafast technology has a profound impact in a wide range of applications, amongst them biomedical imaging, chemical dy…
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- 978-3-319-13242-6
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