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Understanding History
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 180.00What sense do children and young people make of history? How do they cope with competing historical accounts in textbooks? How do they think historical or archaeological claims are supported or rejected? And whatever students think about history, how do their teachers see history education? The contributors to this fourth volume of the International... more...
Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Adults
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008; US$ 33.00Many adults in OECD countries have low language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills. The consequences of these low foundation skills span the economic, health and social well-being of individuals, families and communities. Investment in this sector of adult education is therefore crucial. This study looks specifically inside the programmes for adult... more...
Why Not the Best Schools? The China Report
Australian Council for Educational Research 2009; US$ 29.95Why Not the Best Schools?: The China Report is part of a set of six country reports that support Why Not the Best Schools? by Brian Caldwell and Jessica Harris (ACER Press 2008). Why Not the Best Schools? draws on the findings of the International Project to Frame the transformation of Schools conducted in Australia, China, England, Finland, the United... more...
Why Not the Best Schools? The Finland Report
Australian Council for Educational Research 2009; US$ 29.95Why Not the Best Schools?: The Finland Report is part of a set of six country reports that support Why Not the Best Schools? by Brian Caldwell and Jessica Harris (ACER Press 2008). Why Not the Best Schools? draws on the findings of the International Project to Frame the Transformation of Schools conducted in Australia, China, England, Finland, the... more...
Why Not the Best Schools? The USA Report
Australian Council for Educational Research 2009; US$ 29.95Why Not the Best Schools?: The US Report is part of a set of six country reports that support Why Not the Best Schools? by Brian Caldwell and Jessica Harris (ACER Press 2008). Why Not the Best Schools? draws on the findings of the International Project to Frame the Transformation of Schools conducted in Australia, China, England, Finland, the United... more...
Why Not the Best Schools? The Wales Report
Australian Council for Educational Research 2008; US$ 29.95Why Not the Best Schools?: The Wales Report is part of a set of six country reports that support Why Not the Best Schools? by Brian Caldwell and Jessica Harris (ACER Press 2008). Why Not the Best Schools? draws on the findings of the International Project to Frame the Transformation of Schools conducted in Australia, China, England, Finland, the... more...
World Yearbook of Education 2010
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 170.00The World Yearbook of Education 2010: Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power , strives to do justice to the complex processes and dynamics behind the world of Arab education. Western interest in all things ?Arab? has greatly increased over the course of the decade, but this interest runs the risk... more...
Learning for Tomorrow's World
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 100.00This report presents the first internationally comparable results to OECD's 2003 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Survey of the educational performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science in 25 OECD countries. This year, the concentration was on mathematics. Beyond the examination of the relative standing... more...
The 2003 Assessment Framework
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 39.00PISA 2003 Assessment Framework Mathematics, Reading, Science and Problem Solving Knowledge and Skills presents the conceptual underpinnings of PISA 2003 assessments. Within each assessment area, the volume defines the content students need to acquire, the processes they need to perform, and contexts in which knowledge and skills are applied. more...
What Makes School Systems Perform?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 39.00The report links the results from the OECD PISA 2000 survey to qualitative evidence on important public policy measures in six countries that performed well in PISA. These measures included strategies for educational reform and innovation; issues of governance and resource allocation; national approaches to standard-setting, assessment and system monitoring;... more...









