[PDF] Performance Contracting In Education An Appraisal Toward A Balanced Perspective eBook

Author : Michael Russell
Publisher : IAP
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 27,95 MB
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1607529831

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As a nation, we spend more than $1 billion a year on federally mandated educational tests that 30 million students must take each year. The country spends an additional $1.2 billion on test preparation materials designed to help students pass these tests. While test mandates were put in place with good intentions, increasingly educational leaders and policy makers are questioning these test based reform efforts. Some question whether these programs are doing more harm than good. Others call for the development of more and better tests. Given the vast amount of resources our nation pours into testing, is it time we pay closer attention to these testing programs? Is it time we hold the testing industry and policy makers accountable for the tests they make and use? Is it time we invest resources to develop new ways of testing our students? The Paradoxes of High-Stakes Testing explores these and other questions, as it helps parents, teachers, educational leaders, and policy makers better understand the complexities of educational policies that use tests as a lever for improving the quality of education. The book explores: >> how testing is used to enable teachers and schools to be more effective and improve student learning, >> why testing is so ingrained in the American psyche and why policy makers rely on testing policies to reform our educational system, >> what we can learn from a long history of test-based reform efforts that have occurred over centuries and across continents, >> what effects testing has on teaching and learning in our schools when it is used to solve political, social, or economic problems. Most importantly, the book describes several ways in which testing can be improved to provide more accurate and more useful measures of student learning. Many of these improvements capitalize on technology to provide teachers with more detailed, diagnostic information about student learning and measure skills that some leaders argue are essential for the 21st century work force. Exploring what is within reach is critical because current testing policies are hindering these improvements. Finally, given that testing is and will continue to be an integral part of our educational system, the book concludes that, like other sectors of our society, educational testing must be more closely monitored to ensure that high quality tests are used to measure student achievement and to minimize the negative effects that testing has on students, schools, and our society. Given the opportunity our nation has to rethink and redesign its testing policies, The Paradoxes of High-Stakes Testing presents a clear strategy to maximize the positive effects of educational testing.

Author : Joseph Kaswengi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030958094

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This book contains the latest and most up-to-date research results from the fields of brands, labels and product, presented at the international colloquium COBLI 2021, held in Orleans, France. It covers a wide range of topics from the fields of economics, psychology, information technology and social sciences. In particular, the book deals with various areas of application such as consumer behavior in the omnichannel, the influence of the coronavirus pandemic on attitudes and customer behavior, franchising, origin labelling, transparency in the agri-food industry, tourism and the triptych of brand/label/product. The contributions are gathered under the following main topics: Consumer behavior and decisions, labeling strategy, brand market trends, branding of local brands, territorial impact on brand/label/product, theoretical and managerial research methods.

Author : A. Lin Goodwin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415914734

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First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Page : 616 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Author : Carol Collier Kuhlthau
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN :

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A report taken from School Library Media Annual, 1993. It is coupled with recent articles on the subject. New and alternative measures of assessment are discussed, with guidelines on how to implement them to evaluate and illustrate the impact of the library media programme on student learning.