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Global Teaching InSights A Video Study of Teaching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Global Teaching InSights A Video Study of Teaching

What does teaching look like? What practices are most impactful? By directly observing teaching in the classroom, this study trialled new research methods to shed light on these key questions for raising student outcomes around the world.

The Culture of Print
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

The Culture of Print

The leading historians who are the authors of this work offer a highly original account of one of the most important transformations in Western culture: the change brought about by the discovery and development of printing in Europe. Focusing primarily on printed matter other than books, The Culture of Print emphasizes the specific and local contexts in which printed materials, such as broadsheets, flysheets, and posters, were used in modern Europe. The authors show that festive, ritual, cultic, civic, and pedagogic uses of print were social activities that involved deciphering texts in a collective way, with those who knew how to read leading those who did not. Only gradually did these coll...

International Bibliography of History of Education and Children's Literature (2013)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

International Bibliography of History of Education and Children's Literature (2013)

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  • Published: 2015
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and Student Outcomes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 167

Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and Student Outcomes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-19
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume offers insights from modeling relations between teacher quality, instructional quality and student outcomes in mathematics across countries. The relations explored take the educational context, such as school climate, into account. The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the only international large-scale study possessing a design framework that enables investigation of relations between teachers, their teaching, and student outcomes in mathematics. TIMSS provides both student achievement data and contextual background data from schools, teachers, students and parents, for over 60 countries...

Standard Setting in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Standard Setting in Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-02-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book summarizes the international evidence on methodological issues in standard setting in education. By critically discussing the standard-setting practices implemented in the Nordic countries and by presenting new methodological approaches, it offers fresh perspectives on the current research. Standard setting targets crucial societal objectives by defining educational benchmarks at different achievement levels, and provides feedback to policy makers, schools and teachers about the strengths and weaknesses of a school system. Given that the consequences of standard setting can be dramatic, the quality of standard setting is a prime concern. If it fails, repercussions can be expected i...

International Handbook of Comparative Large-Scale Studies in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1518

International Handbook of Comparative Large-Scale Studies in Education

This handbook is the first of its kind to provide a general and comprehensive overview of virtually every aspect of International Large Scale Assessment (ILSA). It includes historical, economic, and policy perspectives, theoretical foundations, methodology, and reviews of findings from analyses of ILSA data. After decades, during which ILSAs have generated knowledge within central areas of education research and gained increased and substantial impact on educational policy, practice and research, such a broad overview for a wide-ranging audience is much needed. With contributions from authors and editors from all continents, this handbook appeals to an international audience and keeps a neut...

Equity, Equality and Diversity in the Nordic Model of Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

Equity, Equality and Diversity in the Nordic Model of Education

Does the Nordic model of education still stand by its original principles and safeguard education for all? This Open Access volume is a carefully crafted collection of chapters that investigate the different aspects of equity, equality and diversity across the education systems in the Nordic countries. Based on data from various national and international large-scale assessments, the volume provides a better understanding of both the functions and foundations of the Nordic model, along with how the concepts mentioned above are enacted in practice. Across the chapters, data from different national and international large-scale assessment studies are used for cross- and single-country analyses...

Advancements in Technology-Based Assessment: Emerging Item Formats, Test Designs, and Data Sources
  • Language: en

Advancements in Technology-Based Assessment: Emerging Item Formats, Test Designs, and Data Sources

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Monitoring Student Achievement in the 21st Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Monitoring Student Achievement in the 21st Century

This book draws together leading student assessment academics from across Europe exploring student monitoring policies and practices in a range of countries across 22 chapters. The chapters in the first part offer a broad overview on student assessment covering history and current status, aims and approaches as well as methodological challenges of international student assessment. The second part presents country specific chapters provide an in depth look examining country specific policy and practices and findings of national and/or international assessments. Findings are critically discussed and recommendations are made for further development of each country's assessment context. The book shows similarities and differences within the educational assessment landscape as well as complexity and similarities in assessment policy documents and strategies, Given the globalized world we live in today, this book fills a need in the higher educational context and is intended for for policy makers in different countries as well.

PISA Science 2006
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

PISA Science 2006

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: NSTA Press

What must we teach students to enable them to fully participate in a world community where science and technology play an increasingly significant role? Comprehensive, thought-provoking, and indispensable, PISA Science 2006, provides educators with a top-down view of where we stand today in science education and what this means for students and educators.