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Neoliberal Transformation of Education in Turkey
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00Neoliberal policies have had an impact on educational systems globally. This book provides a detailed and critical analysis of neolibreal educational policies and reforms in Turkey by focusing on the Justice and Development Party's reform efforts over the last eight years. more...
Global Perspectives on Adult Education
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00This book demonstrates how processes of globalization (economic, cultural, socio-political) are creating new possibilities and inequities and are thereby creating corresponding roles for adult education and learning in the South (Africa, Asia, South America) that are embedded in multiple political, economic and cultural projects for social change. more...
Gendered Paradoxes
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 25.00In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. The resulting demographic picture there—highly educated women who still largely stay at home... more...
Exam Class Toolkit
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 100.00It is a new school year and you have a dilemma: on the one hand is a group of bubbly students wanting something original and new, and on the other is a stuffed specification and an impatient senior leader demanding greater 'value added' from the results. How do you please them both?. This book will show you how teaching exam groups can be exciting... more...
Rigorous Curriculum Design
Lead + Learn Press 2011; US$ 20.95One of the pillars of the educational reform movement is curriculum. The curriculum needs to meet two goals: (1) Students need the breadth and depth of content knowledge not just facts for tests (2) But students also need to be taught what they need to know to pass high-stakes tests. Rigorous Curriculum Design is straightforward, sequential and explicit... more...
Common Formative Assessments
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 35.95Learn how teachers can collaboratively develop, test, and refine common formative assessments and gain critical insights to meet students? individual learning needs. more...
Standards and Assessment
Lead + Learn Press 2011; US$ 17.95Standards provide learning targets for students and the result of assessments help make data-driven instructional decisions. In this anthology education experts address the following topics in the context of impacting student learning ? performance assessments ? frequent assessments in mathematics ? connecting science standards and assessments ?... 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...
Making Sense of Critical Appraisal
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2002; US$ 41.95Making Sense of Critical Appraisal provides all the necessary information on how to read and understand medical research publications critically and to decide whether the contents of such publications are clinically useful in the care of patients. Illustrated throughout with medically relevant examples, this text covers all aspects of study design... more...
Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 150.00This book addresses the need for tests that can diagnose the strengths and weaknesses in learners' developing foreign language proficiency. It presents the rationale for, and research surrounding, the development of DIALANG, a suite of internet-delivered diagnostic foreign language tests funded by the European Commission. The word 'diagnosis'... more...









