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Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students--Print Version (50 Booklets)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:47:53 +0000

Based on a multiple talent approach to the identification of gifted students, fourteen scales help identify student strengths in the following areas: learning, motivation, creativity, leadership, art, music, dramatics, planning, communication (precision and expression), mathematics, reading, scien..

Price: $107.99

Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:23:30 +0000

Initiatives such as Race to the Top introduce new statistics and accountability systems to gauge what constitutes "good" teaching, both from an administrative standpoint and the perspective of teacher training programs.

Price: $166.99

Demythologizing Educational Reforms (Responses to the Political and Corporate Takeover of Education)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:04:51 +0000

There are dozens of myths surrounding educational reform today, maintaining the school’s role in economic competitiveness, the deficiency of teachers, the benefits of increased testing, and the worthiness of privatization. In this volume, prominent educational writers tackle contemporary issues..

Price: $140.99

Measuring the Quality of Education

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:37:53 +0000

This book contains a selection of articles on measuring the quality of education from the perspective of the importance of theories on education, changing effects of education, curriculum dependent or curriculum independent measurement, product and process evaluation, and global curricula.

Price: $189.99

Effective Assessment in Schools (Beyond Basics and Best Practices)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:16:37 +0000

This book provides students, teachers, and researchers a deeper examination of educational assessment fundamentals and examines assessment beyond (best) practices. It covers topics of inclusive assessment, psychosocial impacts and wellbeing of students, and assessment in the age of technologica..

Price: $233.99

Unequal By Design (High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality)

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:50:54 +0000

This new edition of Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality critically examines the deep and enduring problems within systems of education in the U.S., in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively a..

Price: $233.99

Systemic Racism and Educational Measurement (Confronting Injustice in Testing, Assessment, and Beyond)

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:29:52 +0000

Systemic Racism and Educational Measurement provides a theoretical and historical reckoning with racism and oppression produced through educational measurement and research methodology.

Price: $233.99

Assessment (Case Studies, Experience and Practice)

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:18:16 +0000

The fourth volume in this series deals with one of the ubiquitous higher and further education subjects. With a practice-based approach, the text avoids being overly academic and instead uses a case study format to detail a wide range of approaches to assessment.

Price: $249.99

Assessing Students' Digital Reading Performance (An Educational Data Mining Approach)

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:18:10 +0000

This book provides a systematic study of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) based on big data analysis, aiming to examine the contextual factors relevant to students’ digital reading performance.

Price: $189.99

Playing It Straight (Uncovering Gender Discourse in the Early Childhood Classroom)

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:16:15 +0000

Rather than relying exclusively on biological and socialization theories of gender construction, Blaise breaks down theoretical barriers with new understandings of how gender is socially and politically constructed by young children.

Price: $233.99