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Test Better, Teach Better
ASCD 2003; US$ 24.95Ideas and strategies for mining assessment data to determine what kind of instruction would likely improve student achievement. more...
Internationalising the University
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00The contributors to Internationalising the University: the Chinese Context offer an in-depth understanding of the rapidly changing developments in the fields of institutional, social, management, curriculum and student concerns and changes. more...
Fair Isn't Always Equal
Stenhouse Publishers 2006; US$ 22.50Differentiated instruction is a nice idea, but what's both fair and leads to real student learning? Fair Isn't Always Equal answers this question and much more. Rick Wormeli offers the latest research and common sense thinking that teachers and administrators seek when it comes to assessment and grading in differentiated classes. With real examples... more...
Automatic Item Generation
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 59.95Automatic item generation (AIG) represents a relatively new and unique research area where specific cognitive and psychometric theories are applied to test construction practices for the purpose of producing test items using technology. The purpose of this book is to bring researchers and practitioners up-to-date on the growing body of research on... more...
Rubric Assessment Goes to College
R&L Education 2013; US$ 29.99Do you want to expand working knowledge of how to construct, revise, and implement rubrics with specific how-to?s and plenty of examples? Rubric Assessment Goes to College provides effective college-level rubrics that are the right tools for the job of objective, comprehensive assessment and can be constructed almost as easily as constructing an ice... more...
Student Financing of Higher Education: A Comparative Perspective
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 170.00The financing of higher education is undergoing great change in many countries around the world. In recent years many countries are moving from a system where the costs of funding higher education are shouldered primarily by taxpayers, through government subsidies, to one where students pay a larger share of the costs. There are a number of factors... more...
Enabling Consumer and Entrepreneurial Literacy in Subsistence Marketplaces
Springer 2008; US$ 109.99This book describes research on low-literate, poor buyers and sellers in subsistence marketplaces, the consequent development of an innovative marketplace literacy educational program that enables consumer and entrepreneurial literacy, and implications of the research and the educational program for business, education, and a variety of disciplines... more...
Tested
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 18.99The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged almost solely on the bottom line: test scores. To... more...
Transformative Assessment in Action
ASCD 2011; US$ 26.95In this follow-up to the best-selling Transformative Assessment, W. James Popham focuses on the decisions involved in the planning and implementation of formative assessment, providing the practical guidance and models you need to turn formative assessment talk into formative assessment action. more...
Assessment and Learning
SAGE Publications 2005; US$ 55.95The only book of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of assessment used to support learning, Assessment and Learning makes this area accessible and understandable for a wise range of users. This unique text is a major source of practice-based theory on assessment for learning, a formative assessment to support individual development and... more...









