This book aims to give teachers, school heads, and others leaders and trainers in teaching, ideas and advice about improving formative assessment in the classroom. The ideas and advice are based on two years of work in a project which involved the team of authors at King's College working in close collaboration with thirty-six teachers in schools in Medway and Oxfordshire. This work was itself inspired by a review of over two-hundred and fifty research studies worldwide which established hard evidence that development of formative assessment raises students' test scores. This evidence has been confirmed by significant improvements in the achievements of the students in the project classes.After a brief review of the research background and of the project itself, successive chapters describe the specific practices which teachers have found fruitful and the underlying ideas about learning that these developments illustrate. Later chapters discuss the problems that teachers encountered in taking on the changes in their classroom role that the new practices required and give guidance for school managements and LEAs about promoting and supporting the changes.The book is illustrated throughout with quotations from the writing of the teachers involved which describe in their own words how they turned the ideas from the King's staff into practical action in their schools.

Assessment for Learning

Education & Teaching

Black, Paul

Wiliam, Dylan

Harrison, Chris

Marshall, Bethan

Lee, Clara

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

This book centres on developments in science education from the end of World War II to the present day. Oriented toward both practice and policy, the project integrates and compares the views of two of the participants in these developments. Both authors have played a leading part, throughout their careers, in science education, both in their two countries and internationally. Each chapter discusses one of the seven main themes: aims and politics, curriculum development, subject-matter boundaries, pedagogy and learning, assessment, educational research, and the teaching profession. Each theme is introduced in its historical and philosophical context, but in a manner that highlights current issues and is illustrated by drawing on and contrasting the UK and USA contexts, thereby illuminating the changes over the decades. The episodes are then used as a basis for developing insights into the theme, drawing also on broader reflections from the relevant literature and history. The book highlights each of the main issues with compelling examples, and in a fashion that is both accessible and useful for those who would make decisions about the future of science education. It will appeal to leading professionals in science education at university and school levels and in educational management, and to the wider academic and professional audience interested in issues of policy and practice in education, and in comparative and historical studies.

Inside Science Education Reform

Atkin, Myron J

WELCOME TO SPOOKSVILLE What if you knew what a friend, or a lover, or a client was thinking? Would it empower you or drive you crazy? For Dillon Bradford, hearing people’s thoughts has proved monumentally profitable. Dillon is a cool hunter and has leveraged his telepathic ability into Cool Brain, one of Dallas’ largest and most successful brand design agencies. Dillon isn’t the only one wielding this remarkable gift, however. Other telepaths are living large in Big D, and Dillon has brought them together for fun and profit. But Dillon’s tony life begins to unravel when an intriguing woman joins his special group. Debra Lao works for Ewing Pharmaceuticals, one of CoolBrain’s largest accounts. At first, she seems the perfect addition, but after a few drinks, Dillon discovers Lao has a unique sexual twist on their telepathic gift. Inexorably drawn to this exotic Asian beauty, Dillon soon finds his world turned inside out. Blackouts. Seizures. Mysterious marks at the base of his skull. What is happening to Dillon Bradford? Is Debra Lao what she seems? Is his life what it seems? Dallas’ most eligible bachelor is about to be thrust into the dangerous and seedy world of international arms trade and black operations, and there’s seemingly nothing he can do to stop it, because Dillon Bradford’s gift isn’t like his telepathic friends’ and rival forces scattered around the globe will do whatever it takes to harness his extraordinary power. From two-time Independent Publishers Book Award winner, Paul Black, comes a thriller that is sure to win with critics and audiences. Part spy novel, part love story, part paranormal thriller, Cool Brain has it all.

Cool Brain

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Novel Instincts

Testing: Friend or Foe? (Master Classes in Education Series)

Written in a user-friendly, jargon-free style, this text provides the reader with points of growth or change in the field of assessment. Each chapter in the text ends with a section on questions/exercises and further reading.

Testing: Friend or Foe?: Theory and Practice of Assessment and Testing (Master Classes in Education)

Routledge

Owing to daily work pressures and concerns, many teachers have little opportunity for considering and furthering their understanding of different issues surrounding assessment. Written in a user-friendly, jargon-free style, this text provides the reader with points of growth or change in the field of assessment. Each chapter in the text ends with a section on questions/exercises and further reading.

Two international leaders offer important insights into the ways in which the discipline of science education has developed and how school curriculum has been shaped by both scientific discovery and social change. J Myron Atkin (U.S.) and Paul Black (U.K.) share their vast and varied experiences in this historical account that chronicles the many developments in the field from the end of World War II to the present. The chapters in this volume cover: the aims and politics of science education, curriculum development, subject matter boundaries, pedagogy and learning, assessment and evaluation, educational research and practice, and the teaching profession. Each theme is introduced in its historical and philosophical context, with current issues emphasized. The authors then analyze these themes by drawing on relevant episodes from their transatlantic careers. These episodes act as a springboard for developing insights into each theme, including comparisons between educational practices in the United States and the United Kingdom. Featuring compelling examples and a cohesive presentation, this groundbreaking volume is essential reading for anyone making decisions about the future of science education.

Inside Science Education Reform: A History of Curricular and Policy Change (Ways of Knowing in Science and Mathematics, 18)

Atkin, J. Myron

History

Teachers College Pr

The SPACE Research Reports present the results of a national enquiry into the ideas which children form about scientific concepts and processes. This eighth report is concerned with children's understanding of healthy and unhealthy foods and activities and simple body processes.

Processes of Life (Liverpool University Press - Primary SPACE Research Reports)

Osborne, Jonathan

Wadsworth, Pam

Science & Math

Liverpool University Press

The primary SPACE (science processes and concept exploration) project set out to explore children's understanding of the science subjects covered by the National Curriculum. The reports, grouped according to subject, present the results of the enquiry. They record classroom methods and behaviour, summarize the ways in which the learning process takes place, and outline some of the techniques that might be employed to enhance results.

Light (Liverpool University Press - Primary SPACE Research Reports)

Smith, Maureen

Meadows, J.

Earth Sciences

Indoeuropean Classification: A Lexicostatistical Experiment, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 82, part 5) (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1420)

Reference

Dyen, Isidore

Kruskal, Joseph B.

Words, Language & Grammar

The American Philosophical Society Press

Temptation of Angels

Dead Souls

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