Designing Effective Assessment: Principles and Profiles of Good Practice by: Trudy W. Banta – Elizabeth A. Jones – Karen E. Black ISBN-10: 0470393343 ISBN-13: 9780470393345 Edition: 1 Publication date: July 14, 2009 Paperback: 352 pages Book Description Fifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed the national landscape for the campus examples that were published in the classic work Assessment in Practice. Since then, significant advances have occurred, including the use...
Scaling Up Success: Lessons Leaed from Technology-Based Educational Improvement by: Chris Dede – James P. Honan – Laurence C. Peters ISBN-10: 0787976598 ISBN-13: 9780787976590 Edition: 1 Publication date: January 21, 2005 Hardcover: 288 pages Book Description Drawing from the information presented at conference sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education Consortium, leading educators, researchers, and policymakers, Scali...
Raising the Alarm: An Examination of Innovation and Philosophical Denial by: Robert Andrew Este ISBN-10: 9462092826 ISBN-13: 9789462092822 Publication date: March 29, 2013 Paperback: 168 pages 0 Book Description As the foundation of our mode world, innovation has generated a seemingly endless ocean of new products, new processes, new thoughts, and new ways of doing things. Every day, we enhance our innovation and its effects – and we advance, accomplish and constantly seek even more! Gener...
Understanding and Addressing Commuter Student Needs: New Directions for Student Services, Number 150 (J-B SS Single Issue Student Services) by: J. Patrick Biddix ISBN-10: 1119115191 ISBN-13: 9781119115199 Edition: 1 Publication date: June 29, 2015 Paperback: 120 pages Book Description Despite representing a majority of the college student population, a surprising lack of research has focused on the unique issues and needs of commuter students. This volume reviews the contemporary research and th...
Designing for Leaing: Creating Campus Environments for Student Success by: C. Caey Strange – James H. Banning ISBN-10: 1118823524 ISBN-13: 9781118823521 Edition: 2 Publication date: July 27, 2015 Hardcover: 368 pages Book Description Understand the design factors of campus environmental theory that impact student success and create a campus of consequence Designing for Leaing is a comprehensive introduction to campus environmental theory and practice, summarizing the influence of collegiat...
Exploring Diversity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Implications for Policy and Practice: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 170 (J-B HE Single Issue Higher Education) ISBN-10: 1119108438 ISBN-13: 9781119108436 Edition: 1 Publication date: June 22, 2015 Paperback: 112 pages Book Description Though scholars have explored various topics related to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), little empirical research has critically examined the increasingly chang...
Language Issues in Comparative Education: Inclusive Teaching and Leaing in Non-Dominant Languages and Cultures ISBN-10: 9462092168 ISBN-13: 9789462092167 Publication date: April 19, 2013 Paperback: 316 pages 0 Book Description This volume compiles a unique yet complementary collection of chapters that take a strategic comparative perspective on education systems, regions of the world, and/or ethnolinguistic communities with a focus on non-dominant languages and cultures in education. Comparison ...
Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids by: Denise Pope – Maureen Brown – Sarah Miles ISBN-10: 1119022444 ISBN-13: 9781119022442 Edition: 1 Publication date: July 27, 2015 Paperback: 256 pages List Price Book Description Praise for Overloaded and Underprepared Parents, teachers, and administrators are all conceed that America s kids are stressed out, checked out, or both but many have no idea where to begin when it comes to solving t...
Basser, Philip Baxter and Goldstein: The Kensington Colleges by: Claire Scobie ISBN-10: 1742234119 ISBN-13: 9781742234113 Publication date: July 1, 2015 Paperback: 128 pages List Price Book Description From an empty paddock to a thriving community of students housed in brand-new buildings, the Kensington Colleges—an important part of the life and soul of the University of New South Wales—have come a long way since they formed in 1959. The Basser, Philip Baxter, and Goldstein colleges have played...
The Stress of Change: Testing the Resilience of Institutions: New Directions for Higher Education, Number 151 ISBN-10: 0470924330 ISBN-13: 9780470924334 Publication date: September 21, 2010 Paperback: 122 pages Book Description Colleges and universities have administrative and goveance arrangements that can come to terms with change. These can come into play to interpret and modulate change and to allow necessary adjustments through participatory processes. But the capacity of these mechanisms t...