Educational Systems and Structures Books

Los estudiantes encontrarán en este manual una auto-ayuda para completar sus conocimientos, así lograr la acreditación de su estado. Donde rápidamente se incorporarán al ejercicio de la cosmetología, a través del mismo encontrarás una serie de preguntas...

The Oxford Ultimate Compatibility Test TM is the most comprehensive test available. It determines how close or far you are from achieving your ideal relationship.Incompatibility is the single greatest deterrent to the success of any relationship...

Provides a new conceptualization of curriculum and of curriculum planning that is clearer, more functional, more adequate than those previously available.

Globalization, migration, transnational movements and the development of the tiger economies of Asia have led education leaders and policy makers around the world but particularly in Australia, the USA, Canada, and New Zealand to view schools as key...

Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1 examines contemporary collisions and reworkings of cultural-political issues in education through arts and humanities-based approaches.

Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice shows educators how climate change can be taught from any disciplinary perspective and in a transdisciplinary way, drawing on examples from the author's own classroom.

The 26th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education is an essential resource for educators and curriculum specialists seeking to understand the foundational principles and techniques of curriculum construction. Written by Harold Rugg,...

This textbook, first published in 1895, provides a course of study in art education for primary and secondary schools. It covers basic principles of drawing and design, as well as instruction in painting, sculpture, and other forms of visual art. The...

Explore the world of education both at home and abroad with this insightful book. Hughes delves into the different practices and approaches to education across cultures, examining the successes and challenges faced by different systems. A must-read for...

This book is a pioneering study of the variability and standardization of teacher's marks, a topic of enduring importance in the field of education. Kelly analyzes the methods and practices used by different teachers to grade students, and offers...

This book sheds light on the principles and issues related to the fine and industrial arts courses in Teachers College in 1913. It discusses the relationship between art and industry in education, and how the fine arts can be used in industrial fields...

A comprehensive report on engineering education in the United States, prepared for the Joint Committee on Engineering Education of the National Engineering Societies. The report provides a detailed analysis of the state of engineering education in the...

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the completion-test method of language assessment, which measures a student's ability to complete sentences with appropriate words. It includes detailed instructions on conducting and scoring completion tests,...

This informative book provides a comparative study of the education systems in two countries, the Philippines and Cuba, during the first half of the 20th century. Drawing on a wealth of statistical data and historical sources, the authors analyze the...

This book explores the practical and aesthetic character of modern art education and how it can be considered in an educational context. It examines different methods and approaches to teaching art, including the Bauhaus model, and how they can be...

This is a ground-breaking account of one of the most complicated qualification systems in the world. The National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) is predominantly used in the senior secondary school in Aotearoa New Zealand. Its introduction...

The demand for a second edition of this book in little more than a week after the publication of the first indicates the interest which the public take in the relation of Sex to Education, and justifies the author in appealing to physiology and pathology...

Composition in Convergence: The Impact of New Media on Writing Assessment considers how technological forms--such as computers and online courses--transform the assessment of writing, in addition to text classroom activity. Much has been written on how...

This book describes the theory, methods, and contemporary applications of consultee-centered consultation, a non-hierarchical, non-prescriptive helping relationship between a consultant and a person or group (consultee) seeking professional help with a...

This volume brings together evidence-based approaches to interdisciplinary language arts and science instruction. Firmly grounded in the research showing cognitive parallels between the two subjects, and reflecting the many recommendations in recent...

"Polished, clear, insightful, and meaningful.... This volume amounts to nothing less than a complete rethinking of what progressive education can be at its best and how education can be reconceptualized as one of the central practices of a genuinely...

This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples. This topic is of direct interest to a professional audience of survey...

This volume explores the recent national trend toward adoption of performance assessments. Embraced at all levels of educational decision-making--state, district, school, and teacher--the shapes these assessments take and the affects they have at the...

This classic volume outlines, for both students and professionals, the mathematical theories and equations that are necessary for evaluating a test and for quantifying its characteristics. The author utilizes formulas that evaluate both the reliability...

How to Master Mathematics, a book designed and written to help with the journey of learning and understanding math. Your Path to Mathematical Excellence.Dive into the world of mathematics with confidence and conquer even the most daunting equations! "How...

This account of the incorporation of issues of equality into the social work education curriculum focuses upon the period between 1989 and 1995, a time of considerable activity and rapid change. It is based upon research carried out by the author whilst...

If you keep doing what you have always done,you will continue to get what you have always gotten.Westside Elementary in Powell, Wyoming, went from mediocre scores on the Wyoming State Test to being one of the top academic schools in the state. In Recipe...

In the past decade, an unprecedented trend toward accountability has emerged in American public education. With the advent of computerized grading, stakeholders often have instant access to student grades. Consequently, teacher grading practices are...

This book focuses on dilemmas inherent in the practice of assessment in the contemporary context. New forms of assessment are being introduced in all sectors of education and training, and the culture of assessment is shifting. The authors in this volume...

Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in the subject but also covers the latest trends and...

Learning in Science brings together accounts of the five influential and groundbreaking Learning in Science Projects, undertaken by the author over a period of twenty years. Offering comprehensive coverage of the findings and implications of the...

Teaching in Transnational Higher Education examines current trends and challenges that face students, teachers and institutions of higher education around the globe.  This book comes at a pivotal moment where many universities are offering their...

Taking a collection of seminal articles from the Journal of Curriculum Studies, this book offers readers a vantage point for thinking about the worlds of schools and curricula, focusing in particular on the concept of seeing schools, curricula and...

A lot hangs on the summative grades that students are given. A good degree opens doors which otherwise might remain closed. Yet, as higher education is now a mass rather than an elite system, what is expected of its graduates is different from the...

The role of therapy in schools is a topic that has been significantly under-researched and often overlooked. Considering the number of students in full-time education with serious emotional and behavioural difficulties, the skills and tricks used by...

The first authoritative survey of the changing politics of the classroom since the Second World War. It charts the process by which society moved away from being one in which teachers decided both the content of the school curriculum and how it would be...

Leading American psychologist and educator Howard Gardner has assembled his most important writings about education. Spanning over thirty years, this collection reveals the thinking, the concepts and the empirical research that have made Gardner one of...

This book explores sixteen contemporary issues in science education by examining the practical dilemmas these issues provoke for teachers. It is a unique book which presents student-teachers with personal and professional insights into a...

The goal of this book is to emphasize the formal statistical features of the practice of equating, linking, and scaling. The book encourages the view and discusses the quality of the equating results from the statistical perspective (new models,...

The arrival of the computer in educational and psychological testing has led to the current popularity of adaptive testing---a testing format in which the computer uses statistical information about the test items to ...

A significant driver of recent growth in the use of mathematics in the professions has been the support brought by new technologies. Not only has this facilitated the application of established methods of mathematical and...

KE is applied to the four major equating designs and to both Chain Equating and Post-Stratification Equating for the Non-Equivalent groups with Anchor Test Design. It will be an important reference for several groups: (a)...

Learning to Teach in England and the United States studies the evolution of initial teacher education by considering some of the current approaches in England and the United States.

This collection brings together adult education theorists and practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean (and diaspora from these regions) in an attempt to foreground issues, concepts, theories and practices of adult education in...