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MacDonald, Sharon – 1996
This book provides a guide for early childhood educators in implementing and using portfolio assessment to measure children's learning. Chapter 1 focuses on, "How Young Children Learn." It explains that children are active learners who learn by doing things repeatedly, by making mistakes, and by being exposed to varying approaches,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Achievement Gains, Early Childhood Education
Girod, Roger – 1990
This book examines some of the main problems arising in the sociology of education, and seeks to shed light on the methods that are frequently employed to study them. An attempt is made to distinguish the formal level of education from the real level of education. On the basis of the formal level of education researchers can divide populations…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Background, Educational Opportunities, Educational Sociology
Taylor, Ronald L. – 2003
This text on the assessment of students with disabilities is divided into six major parts. Part 1, "Introduction to Assessment, Issues and Concerns," discusses the historical, philosophical, legal, practical and ethical bases of assessment and proposes an assessment model. Part 2, "Informal Procedures: Basic Tools for Teachers," includes chapters…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled)
Stenmark, Jean Kerr, Ed. – 1991
Recent documents like the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics'"Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics" have described coming changes in the mathematics curriculum and evaluation. Operating from the point of view that instruction and assessment are closely linked, that good teachers constantly assess students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Gullo, Dominic F. – 1994
This book is intended to help early childhood practitioners develop the essential understanding they require for appropriate use of assessment and evaluation information and to illuminate many of the issues involved in formal and informal assessment and evaluation. The chapters are: (1) "Assessment and Evaluation in the Early Childhood…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Curriculum Development
Vance, H. Booney, Ed. – 1993
This book is designed to provide insight into the ways in which psychologists conduct psychoeducational assessments in a variety of settings. Each contributed chapter gives a detailed and practical discussion of a particular assessment instrument or strategy along with a detailed case study. Chapters have the following titles and authors:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorders
