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Classroom Assessment Techniques
Classroom assessment is an important teaching approach for developing the memory caliber of students. It is also a good technique to increase the students’ interest in particular subjects. It will also help the teachers to recognize the students’ abilities to learn the different subjects. The fact is that the more you understand about how students are grasping your subjects, the better you can plan different learning activities to build up the learning. It will also provide useful feedback on the teaching-learning process. The learning process will be easy for you if you get a good response from the students. This method of teaching should be done weekly so you know the students’ improvements.
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Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your ClassroomIf you ever have students who are reluctant to tell you when they don’t understand something—or worse, tell you they understand when they really d... Read More >
Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know (4th Edition)This well-written book is grounded in the reality of teaching today to show real-world teachers who want to use assessment in their classrooms the lat... Read More >
Developing and Using Classroom Assessments (4th Edition) This updated, brief, inexpensive book focuses on how to write, construct, and use assessments in the classroom. It continues to take a balanced appr... Read More >
Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)This revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1988 handbook offers teachers at all levels of experience detailed, how-to advice on classroom assess... Read More >
Classroom Assessment: Supporting Teaching and Learning in Real Classrooms (2nd Edition)The second edition of this exceptionally lucid and practical assessment text provides a wealth of powerful concrete examples th... Read More >
Effective Study Skills
Why is it that some people excel in education, while others struggle to learn? Some people do the studying and the work, but they still fall flat. Could it be due to bad luck? Are the less fortunate people dumb, or suffering from some mental disease? Most likely not—in most cases how you do in school or any other educational environment has more to do with your study skills than it does with mental capabilities. Some methods of study are more effective than others. Even then, it depends on the person. One study method is not going to work for everyone.
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Keys to Effective Learning: Study Skills and Habits for Success (6th Edition) (MyStudentSuccessLab Series)This text is geared to students who are academically underprepared for college-level studies, especially first-generation and a... Read More >
Oxford Business English Skills: Effective Meetings DVDEffective Meetings is for anyone who has to chair or attend meetings and wants to get more out of them.The eight free-standing units deal wi... Read More >
The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor-s Companion: Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social SciencesThis book places at its centre the interwoven questions of what it means to be a doctoral student in the social sciences, what is involved in becoming and being a researcher and clearly shows how the role of the supervisor is key to the student-s personal development.
Effective Study Skills: Step-by-Step System to Achieve Student SuccessUses the latest information on cognition, memory, and educational sociology to outline a program of time management, note-taking, test preparation, and other skills for student success.
Integrating Technology in the Classroom
Integrating technology in the classroom is considered one of the most successful modern methods for improving the classroom. If any school has sufficient amount of funding, sources to develop dynamic plans for students, relevant platforms, hardware, IT lines, software, etc., it can easily start an integration of technology.
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Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom (Shelly Cashman Series)Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom, Sixth Edition introduces future educators to technology and digital media.
Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom (Shelly Cashman Series)This title covers up-to-date topics in computer concepts, Internet and digital media integration, interactivity, extraordinary visual drawings and photographs, and unprecedented currency.
Extreme Science: From Nano to GalacticWhether we are imagining microbes or mammoths, dinosaurs or diatoms, molecules or stars, people of all ages are fascinated with the very large and the... Read More >
Teachers Discovering Computers: Integrating Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom, Fourth Edition (Shelly Cashman Series)Make your introductory computer course for teachers exciting and dynamic, an experience they will remember as a highlight of their educational careers... Read More >
College Study Tips
Being in college is a great time in our lives. This is when we are young and energetic and have the zeal of learning. All the fun activities going on in college sometimes distract us from the main goal, which is to study. So what to do to maintain a social life, maybe do a job, and still get awesome grades? The following are some tips that might help you.
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College Knowledge: 101 TipsPractical advice on every aspect of campus life for students headed off to collegeWhat educators and students have to say about David Schoem's... Read More >
How to Study in CollegeThis best-selling text has helped over a million students transform adequate work into academic success. The Ninth Edition maintains the straightforwa... Read More >
Women's Realities, Women's Choices: An Introduction to Women's StudiesNow in a new edition, Women's Realities, Women's Choices introduces readers to the field of women's studies by examining the contradictions between so... Read More >
"37 Ways to Prepare For College"- Don't Let College Intimidate You!Getting ready for college can be difficult. The applications, the costs and the planning really take quite a bit of time, especially if you wait until... Read More >
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN EDUCATION
Many people have come to ask themselves, are all children the same? If the answer is yes, then what makes a girl child fear her male counterpart in education? Could the society be playing a part in instilling fear among female children? If so, how exactly is the society doing so? What could be done to save the situation? At what age in the female child’s life is this corrective measure supposed to be instilled? These questions, together with some others, are going to form a basis of our argument in this article.
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Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics FacultyGender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty presents new and surprising findings about ... Read More >
Old Dating and Etiquette Film for Women: Girls Beware DVD (1961)Girls Beware is ostensibly about girls protecting themselves from untrustworthy men, but its underlying message is that girls are fragile victims who ... Read More >
Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban EducationBy 2007, it is estimated that 9.2 million girls of color will be enrolled in college compared to 6.9 million boys of color. Why the discrepancy? Lopez... Read More >
Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty"Assessing Gender Differences in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty" presents new and surprising findings about career diffe... Read More >
The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Gender & Education (RoutledgeFalmer Readers in Education)This new Reader brings together classic pieces of gender theory, as well as examples of the sophistication of contemporary gender theory and resear... Read More >