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"In the United States, education reform policy is a growing topic of national conversation and concern, especially surrounding the use of standardized testing. Research shows a large disparity exists in test scores between white, wealthy, and middle class students and students that are black or come from impoverished communities. This "achievement gap" is used by policymakers to justify that public education is in need of remediation - that public schools and teachers are failing to raise the test scores of students and schools should be privatized. However, it is a well-known fact in parts of the academic world that scores are clearly divided along lines of race and class. Studies have shown that this gap has existed for more than one hundred years, dating back to the eugenics movement in the early 1900s. Despite the ever-changing demographics of the US, high-stakes use of racialized tests scores are maintaining a social status quo of racial inequality. In an era that claims equity as its goal, there is a hidden story of inequity growing around public education and maintained by the very nature of the tests themselves. In An Illusion of Equity: The Legacy of Eugenics in Today's Education, author Wendy Z. Warren unpacks the origins of the tests and evaluates the inherent inequity of using standardized test scores as sole markers for academic achievement. Warren argues that relying only on test scores has dire social consequences by fostering highly racialized outcomes that privilege white and wealthy people while also denying outstanding students further educational opportunities. This author proposes to describe how our country has arrived at a place where a system of built-in advantage and oppression is spun and accepted as equitable. The premise of An Illusion of Equity is twofold: first, educational equity will never truly exist without social equity. Second, this equity will never exist as long as critical decisions are made based on standardized scores that are biased at their very core. By drawing from several disciplines, Warren will merge the creation of social hierarchy based on race and class and the history and process of test taking in order to shed new light on this issue. Warren's proposed book will closely analyze ETS Testing manuals, as well as books ax nd articles by scholars, and will include sections on how parents, educators, and policymakers can use their power to enact change in education policy"--

A genetics expert and professor challenges our understanding of intelligence, explaining what it truly means to be ?smart,? why conventional assessments are misleading, and what everyone can do to optimize their potential.Growing up in middle-class suburban Los Angeles in the 1980s, Rina Bliss was saw intelligence as her ticket out. Like height and stature, intelligence was said to run in families. The prevailing idea was that mental capacity was determined by our DNA and could be measured; a simple IQ test could predict a child's future.Yet, once Dr. Bliss looked closer, first as a student, then as a scientist, and later as a mom of identical twins who share a genome, she began to challenge conventional wisdom about innate intelligence. In Rethinking Intelligence, she shares her findings, drawing on cutting-edge scientific research to offer a new model for how we understand, define, and assess intelligence, using a measurement that is far more flexible and expansive.Intelligence has little to do with standardized test results or other conventional measures of intellect, Dr. Bliss argues. Intelligence is a process, a journey defined by change that cannot be scored or taken away. Intelligence is influenced by our surroundings in ways that are often overlooked?more than Baby Mozart or flash cards or superfoods, factors like stress, connection, and play actually sculpt young minds.In Rethinking Intelligence, Dr. Bliss shares insights from the burgeoning science of epigenetics to help us harness our environments to empower our minds. If we truly want to nurture potential, we must eliminate toxic stress so that our genes can work optimally, in harmony with our environment. Dr. Bliss offers successful strategies we can use as individuals and a society, including embracing a growth mindset, prioritizing connection, becoming more mindful, and reforming systemic issues?poverty, racism, the lack of quality early childhood education?that have a negative and lasting neurobiological impact.Joining acclaimed works by Carol Dweck, Amy Cuddy, and James Clear, Rethinking Intelligence reframes human behavior and intellect, offering a new perspective for understanding ourselves and our children, and the practical tools necessary to thrive.

Introducing our Praxis Core Study Guide 2022-2023: Reading, Writing, and Math Exam Prep with 2 Full-Length Practice Tests [5713, 5723, 5733] [5th Edition]! Cirrus Test Prep's Praxis Core Study Guide 2022-2023 includes everything you need to pass the Praxis Core Academic Skills exam the first time.Quick review of the concepts covered on the Praxis Core Academic Skills exam2 FULL Practice tests with detailed answer explanations [1 inside + 1 online]Tips and tricks from experienced educatorsAccess to online flash cards, cheat sheets, and moreCirrus Test Prep's Praxis Core Study Guide 2022-2023 is aligned with the official Praxis Core Academic Skills exam, framework. Topics covered include: Reading SkillsLanguage and Research SkillsMathematics ETS was not involved in the creation or production of this product, is not in any way affiliated with Cirrus Test Prep, and does not sponsor or endorse this product. About Cirrus Test PrepDeveloped by experienced current and former educators, Cirrus Test Prep's study materials help future educators gain the skills and knowledge needed to successfully pass their state-level teacher certification exams and enter the classroom. Each Cirrus Test Prep study guide includes: a detailed summary of the test's format, content, and scoring; an overview of the content knowledge required to pass the exam; worked-through sample questions with answers and explanations; full-length practice tests including answer explanations; and unique test-taking strategies with highlighted key concepts.

"Every year millions of students take Advanced Placement exams hoping to score enough points to earn college credit and save on their tuition bill. But are they getting a real college education? This book shows how the AP program originally aimed to replicate the liberal arts experience for bright students, but over time became a testing behemoth and marker of student status"--

Feedback keeps learning moving forward.Picture water pouring into a crystal goblet. That's how clear and dynamic feedback must be. You can achieve that "perfect swirl" of giving, receiving, and integrating feedback with this remarkable book, which is organized into 16 modules for self-study or PLCs. Major concepts include:Defining Feedback: learn the most useful types of feedback, why to align them with transparent criteria, how to gather evidence.4 C's of Feedback: offer it with care, credibility, clarity, and clear communicationGathering Evidence for Feedback: use a balance of verbal, written, and kinesthetic responses; peer collaboration, checks-for-understanding, technology, and more.

How to Go Gradeless -- Assessment That Makes Learning Visible"What's my grade? What's it worth? Is there extra credit? Is this for a mark? " It's time to shift the conversation and make learning visible. Now, you can easily stop reducing students to a number, letter, or any label that misrepresents learning. Now, you can help children see the value in every single assignment. Today, you can make assessment a rich, ongoing conversation that inspires learning for the sake of learning, rather than as a punishment or a reward. All you have to do is go gradeless. Throw out your grade book tomorrow!In Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School, award-winning teacher and world-renowned formative assessment expert Starr Sackstein unravels one of education's oldest mysteries: how to assess learning without grades -- even in a school that uses numbers, letters, GPAs, and report cards. While many educators can only muse about the possibility of a world without grades, teachers like Sackstein are reimagining education. In this unique, eagerly-anticipated book, Sackstein shows you exactly how to create a remarkable no-grades classroom like hers, a vibrant place where students grow, share, thrive, and become independent learners who never ask, "What's this worth?"Learn what formative assessment really looks like.Summative assessment is typically an end-of-unit exam or standardized test, but what is formative assessment? Many teachers struggle with the concept. Hacking Assessment not only explains what formative assessment is, it provides blueprints for implementation and examples from educators around the world, who use this strategy successfully every day.Read It and You Can Take These Actions Immediately:Shift everyone's mindset away from gradesTrack student progress without a grade bookCommunicate learning to all stakeholders in real timeMaximize time while providing meaningful feedbackTeach students to reflect and "self-grade"Deliver feedback in a digital worldCreate cloud-based learning archivesInspire Students to share their work openlyThis is not your average assessment bookHacking Assessment won't bore you with outdated research or unrealistic strategies. In her captivating, conversational style, Sackstein provides practical ideas woven into a user-friendly success guide with actionable steps for creating an amazing conversation about learning that does not require a traditional grade. Each chapter is neatly wrapped in this simple Hack Learning Series formula:The Problem (an assessment issue that plagues education)The Hack (a ridiculously easy solution that you've likely never considered)What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary)Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)The Hack in Action (yes, someone has actually done this)Teachers around the world are going gradeless, and you can tooScroll up and click the Buy Now or Add to Cart button; read Hacking Assessment now, and go gradeless tomorrow.

Longitudinal Studies of Second Language Learning: Quantitative Methods and Outcomes provides a how-to guide to choosing, using, and understanding quantitative longitudinal research and sampling methods in second and foreign language learning.

Longitudinal Studies of Second Language Learning: Quantitative Methods and Outcomes provides a how-to guide to choosing, using, and understanding quantitative longitudinal research and sampling methods in second and foreign language learning.This volume will provide readers with exemplary longitudinal studies of language learning outcomes, as well as an overview of widely used methods of data analysis. Readers will understand how long-term data collection processes are organized and archived, and how the data are managed over time prior to analysis. Each of the chapters provide applied researchers with examples of how language learning outcomes gathered over time can be organized into data sets useful for insightful descriptive and inferential analyses of learning outcomes.As the only edited volume that focuses on longitudinal data analysis specifically for a second language acquisition (SLA)/applied linguistics readership, this will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers of SLA, applied linguistics, assessment, and education.

Are you a course instructor in a doctoral program and exploring ways to stimulate student learning? Do your course evaluations include comments like, "this course is boring and/or the instructor should just place the lecture power-point slides online for students to review them?" Are you interested in improving your students' evaluation of the courses you teach? If your answer is a Yes to any or all the questions, then this book is for you. It provides you with a crucial innovative approach that has been tested for years by the author and found to work. It will positively turn things around for you and your students. The student-discussant role guidebook will get you excited about motivating your students to get involved in their own learning and become active in the teaching and learning process. Results are witnessed in students' satisfaction with their own learning and in real time demonstrations of organizing and oral presentation skills; boredom is replaced by fun and excitement in the classroom; self-improvement, self-assurance and collegiality are promoted. The instructor's reward is a significant improvement in his/her student course evaluation scores.

The definitive classic-updated for our times.One of the most widely researched and proven-effective education methodologies in existence, mastery learning laid the foundation for today's most promising teaching methods, providing a direct challenge to traditional approaches that have perpetuated inequities for generations of children. This timely new edition of the foremost practical guide includes: Recent applications of the principles of mastery learning to distance, hybrid, and blended learning environments Updates including evidence from recent implementation efforts, the results of the most current research on mastery learning and its implications for practice Step-by-step guidance on implementation across grade levels and subject areas Supplemental, on-line chapters that unpack the development of effective formative assessments and connections between RTI and mastery learning

"Does the math portion of the GMAT or GRE fill you with anxiety? ... Whether you've always struggled with math or it's been years (maybe decades) since your last class, this book contains the keys to confidently approaching the math on your exam. With comprehensive chapters and expert guidance, [it] demystifies the principles behind the most important mathematical concepts on the tests"--

Wahrend es in der Schulervorstellungsforschung viele Studien zu spezifischen Themen entlang des Modells der Didaktischen Rekonstruktion gibt, fehlen vergleichende Wirksamkeitsstudien mit anderen definierten Unterrichtskonzepten in realistischen Lernumgebungen. In diesem Buch wird eine gro angelegte Wirksamkeitsstudie zwischen vorstellungsbasiertem Lernen und traditionellem Lernen im Geographieunterricht in der Doppeljahrgangsstufe 9/10 durchgefuhrt. Die Intervention ist eine Unterrichtsreihe, bestehend aus acht aufeinanderfolgenden Schulstunden. Unter der Leitfrage, ob durch die Berucksichtigung von vorstellungsbasiertem Lernen ein hoherer Lernerfolg gegenuber einem traditionellen Vorgehen nach Abschluss einer Unterrichtseihe erzielt wird, dient eine Unterrichtsreihe zum Bodenschutz der Studie als inhaltlicher Rahmen. Als Untersuchungsdesign wird ein Pre-Post-Design mit Follow-Up-Testung nach einem halben Jahr genutzt, um die kurzfristige Lernleistung, die langfristige Behaltensleistung und den Behaltensverlust in funf Lerngruppen (n=102) zu messen.

"3 full-length online practice tests, complete biology coverage, practice for every question type"--Cover.