educational tests and measurements

Explains how to assess and grade individual achievement of learning goals after group projects.

Diane Ravitch, a one-time supporter of the No Child Left Behind Act, discusses the failures of the system, lowered testing standards, and her concerns for the education system in the United States.

A study aid to help students prepare for the math portion of the Accuplacer Test; covering arithmetic, elementary algebra, and college-level math; and providing review lessons, step-by-step examples with practice exercises, and twelve practice tests.

Publisher's description: Humor can be used as a systematic teaching or assessment tool in your classroom and course Web site. It can shock students to attention and bring deadly, boring course content to life. Since some students have the attention span of goat cheese, we need to find creative online and offline techniques to hook them, engage their emotions, and focus their minds and eyeballs on learning. This book offers numerous techniques on how to effectively use humor in lectures and in-class activities, printed materials, course Web sites and course tests and exams. These techniques can convert any course into an adult version of Sesame Street.

Presents core strategies for optimal results on all areas of the SAT, including critical reading, writing, and mathematics, for students of all levels, featuring detailed explanations and practice problems.

Discusses methods for observing and describing young childrens' work; considers protocols for examining and providing feedback to teachers on students' work and the instructional context for the work; and explores some of the important contexts and resources that support collaborative inquiry and reflection.

Describes two protocols developed to help educators collaboratively examine student work, provides real school examples of such collaboration, and includes a list of further resources.

Contains forty-eight brain-teaser tests on common knowledge in varied subject areas.