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University Education in Denmark 2005
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005; US$ 49.00This OECD Review of the Danish university system examines such aspects as governance, funding, the Research Council System, the Danish knowledge system, the university system itself, universities' interaction with society, and outcomes. It finds that training and research is of high quality, but that the system needs to change in response... more...
PISA 2003 Data Analysis Manual: SPSS
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2005; US$ 56.00This publication provides all the information required to understand the PISA 2003 educational performance database and perform analyses in accordance with the complex methodologies used to collect and process the data. It enables researchers to both reproduce the initial results and to undertake further analyses. The publication includes introductory... more...
PISA 2000 Technical Report
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2002; US$ 50.00The PISA 2000 Technical Report describes the complex methodology underlying PISA 2000, along with additional features related to the implementation of the project at a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses. It presents information on the test and sample design, methodologies used to analyse the data, technical... more...
Knowledge and Skills for Life: First Results from PISA 2000
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2001; US$ 35.00Knowledge and Skills for Life assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education (15-year-olds) have acquired some of the knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in society. It presents evidence on student performance in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy, reveals factors that influence the development... more...
West African Pop Roots
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 26.95"Collins-Lowry gives persuasive examples of how employment gains made by Blacks in the 80's were rather more marginalized than we like to think." --Publishers Weekly Against the backdrop of increasing ambivalence in the federal government commitment to race-based employment policies, this book reveals how African-Americans first broke... more...
Statistical Modeling of the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Springer 2011; US$ 54.99The purpose of this book is to evaluate a new approach to the analysis and reporting of the large-scale surveys for the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out for the National Center for Education Statistics. The need for a new approach was driven by the demands for secondary analysis of the survey data by researchers who needed analyses... more...
Dissemination of Innovation (RLE Edu O)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 105.00This volume of topical working papers makes available to teachers and to others information intended to stimulate discussion so that all educators may bring their judgement and experience to bear on the concerns of the School Council and contribute to its work. The papers describe plans for curriculum development projects at their formative stages,... more...
Identifying and Supporting Children with Specific Learning Difficulties
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 37.50Many children experience difficulties which impact on their learning at home and school. Some children are considered to have a specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia or dyspraxia, but other children display a range of indicators which cross the boundaries of specific named 'conditions'. If teachers are to offer appropriate support, the authors... more...
Why Not the Best Schools? The England Report
Australian Council for Educational Research 2009; US$ 29.95Why Not the Best Schools?: The England 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...
Redeeming Culture
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 22.50In this intriguing history, James Gilbert examines the confrontation between modern science and religion as these disparate, sometimes hostile modes of thought clashed in the arena of American culture. Beginning in 1925 with the infamous Scopes trial, Gilbert traces nearly forty years of competing attitudes toward science and religion. "Anyone seriously... more...









