Inspired by a popular Harvard course for students without an extensive mathematics background, Measuring Up demystifies educational testing—from MCAS to SAT to WAIS, with all the alphabet soup in between.
Moreover, direct instruction in vocabulary has met with mixed success (for reviews, see Beck & McKeown, 1991; Mezynski, 1983), though most children and adults are adept at developing their vocabulary knowledge through reading (Stanovich ...
To Karen Alliston, thank you for your thorough and thoughtful edits. You brought precision to my uneven edges. As always, thank you to my agent and friend Rick Broadhead. Your support throughout this endeavour was indispensable.
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I was angry at the potentially sustained hurt inflicted on these boys , angry that this person had slipped through our security , angry at myself that it had happened under my watch as pastor . Anger gave way to fear when it struck me ...
The mute gestures of advertising images are frozen for posterity by photographers and illustrators, gestures that, for better or worse, perpetuate a certain aesthetic and eventually become emblematic of a...
Measuring Up: A Decade of Change in State Higher Education
'Measuring Up' is a tender memoir of fathers and sons, love and loss, and learning to fill boots a size too big. Tender and unflinching, this is a story of love, mourning, and learning what it means to be a man.
2. Jerry Adler, “The Overclass: How the New Elite Scrambled Up the Merit Ladder—and Wants to Stay There Any Way It Can,” Newsweek, July 31, 1995, pp. 35–46. 3. Newman, op. cit., p. 341. 4. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, ...
In "Measuring Up", the authors argue that the time for an overhaul of how we keep score of business environmental performance has come.
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Measuring Up demystifies educational testing - from MCAS to SAT to WAIS.
For fans of American Born Chinese and Roller Girl, this full color, contemporary heartwarming graphic novel proves food always has a way of bringing people together no matter the distance, by debut talent Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu.
"Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food."--Provided by publisher
Measures the benefits of GIS--a collection of hardware, software, and geographic data for capturing, storing, updating, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information in layers on maps-for both ...
""Measuring Up: Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability" addresses the fundamental issues of measuring reading comprehension, in theory and in practice.
Until recently, Jonah’s life has been wonderfully simple: school, partying and surfing with his mates. It’s been uncomplicated — like riding the perfect wave. But that’s all about to change....
Using anthropometric history techniques, the book assesses how a large portion of the population was affected by piecemeal policies and flaws in the process of economic modernization and growth.
Glimpse the future of mathematics assessment in Measuring Up This book features 13 classroom exercises for fourth grade students that demonstrate the dramatic meaning of inquiry, performance, communication, and problem solving as standards ...
This book attempts to promote improved understanding of assessment concepts by addressing the broad expanse of issues facing educators as they go about their duties and fulfill their responsibilities in...