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Evaluation is essential to library management: it provides the data that underlies informed and effective decision-making. This book is a one-volume, how-to guide to library evaluation techniques, planning, and reporting.
Library professionals—regardless of whether they operate in a school, public, or academic library setting—need to have effective evaluation skills in order to be accountable to stakeholders and to effect informed...
Library professionals—regardless of whether they operate in a school, public, or academic library setting—need to have effective evaluation skills in order to be accountable to stakeholders and to effect informed...
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In this look at how the telling of American history has changed over the past three hundred years, historian Kyle Ward juxtaposes excerpts from U.S. history textbooks of different eras to compare how the same event or historical figure has been portrayed differently at different times in our nation's history. From the Boston Massacre to antebellum slavery, the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor to the stock market crash of 1929, Ward uncovers...
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With Peter Drucker's five essential questions and the help of five of today's thought leaders, this little book will challenge readers to take a close look at the very heart of their organizations and what drives them. A tool for self-assessment and transformation, answering these five questions will fundamentally change the way you work, helping you lead your organization to an exceptional level of performance.
Peter Drucker's five questions are:
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The secret to giving better feedback isn't what we say — it's what others hear. Too often, people hear about a past they can't control, not a future they can. That changes with "feedforward" — a radical approach to sharing feedback that unleashes the performance and potential of everyone around us.
From managers and coaches trying to energize their teams, to teachers hoping to motivate their students, to parents looking to empower their children,...
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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness,...
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La historia de la evaluación educativa en el país inicia de la mano del surgimiento de unas prácticas discursivas examinatorias relacionadas con la organización de un sistema educativo, la formación de un Estado nación y una nueva manera de comprender a los sujetos para gobernarlos.
La evaluación educativa en Colombia, 1870-1970 indaga por las prácticas y los discursos que llevaron a la institución de la evaluación y el examen, constituidos...
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In this timely and thoughtful call to action, author and educator Starr Sackstein examines the critical intersection between assessment and social and emotional learning (SEL), particularly as it affects students of color and other marginalized groups. The book addresses the five SEL competencies identified by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)-self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills,...
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Esta obra trata del diseño e implementación de un proyecto de política educativa cuyo objetivo estratégico es la mejora de los aprendizajes y del papel que juegan los actores de la estructura intermedia en la consecución de tal propósito. Es una experiencia de trabajo conjunto entre gobierno federal, gobiernos estatales, academia y equipos de supervisión escolar, denominada.
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Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district. The authors share highly practical strategies for providing teachers meaningful feedback and encouraging their improvement. You'll discover how to evaluate teacher effectiveness, use multiple forms of data for evaluation, and communicate evaluation findings to teachers in a way that fosters their professional growth.
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This is an insightful essay which explores the appraisal and regulation of healthcare professionals. It is also a reflective review of the author's experience of professional life. From constructing arguments to identifying fallacies and bad practices, this comprehensive resource will leave you informed and equipped for the professional road ahead.
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In Demonstrating Student Mastery with Digital Badges and Portfolios, David Niguidula shows how students can meet standards and express their individuality through digital badges and portfolios. Building off an essential question-What do schools want their students to know and be able to do?-he then shows how schools can implement a proficiency-based approach to student learning that has been successfully field-tested in districts across the United...
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Successfully leverage technology to enhance classroom practices with this practical resource. The authors demonstrate the importance of educational technology, which is quickly becoming an essential component in effective teaching. Included are over 100 organized classroom strategies, vignettes that show each section's strategies in action, and a glossary of classroom-relevant technology terms. Key research is summarized and translated into classroom...
17) The Handbook for Collaborative Common Assessments: Tools for Design, Delivery, and Data Analysis
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When educators participate fully in the consistent and systematic process of collaborative common assessments, teachers, learners, and schools all thrive. A companion to the assessment book Collaborative Common Assessments by Cassandra Erkens, this practical handbook presents measures teams can take to improve their collaborative common assessments. Each chapter features reflection questions as well as tools and protocols for implementing each phase...
18) Brainwork
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In his masterful new book, BRAINWORK, David Sousa dispels popular brain myths and half-truths and gives the hard facts of brain research as applicable to the workplace. Some of the new revelations run counter to long-held beliefs in organizational management. For example, the old shibboleth that 'knowledge is power' is not always true. Too much knowledge overwhelms the brain's processing systems, impairing decision-making ability and personal success,...
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Many educators agree that the 100-point grading model is not always a reliable way to evaluate student learning. But is there another way to more accurately and equitably grade students and provide high-quality information to parents while fostering student learning? If so, why haven't school districts across the country changed their practices?In Changing the Grade, author and educator Jonathan Cornue presents a detailed model for developing a more...
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What is assessment literacy? It's a handful of fundamental understandings about the testing concepts and procedures that influence educational decisions. And it just might be the most cost-effective means of real school improvement. With characteristic humor and aplomb, assessment expert W. James Popham strips away the psychometrician-speak and condenses the complexities of educational testing to six practical and action-oriented understandings about...
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