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This book provides an overview of current research on a variety of
topics related to both large-scale and classroom assessment. First,
the purposes, traditions and principles of assessment are
considered, with particular attention to those common to all levels
of assessment and those more connected with either classroom or
large-scale assessment. Assessment design based on sound assessment
principles is discussed, differentiating between large-scale and
classroom assessment, but also examining how the design principles
overlap. The focus then shifts to classroom assessment and provides
specific examples of assessment strategies, before examining the
impact of large-scale assessment on curriculum, policy,
instruction, and classroom assessment. The book concludes by
discussing the challenges that teachers currently face, as well as
ways to support them. The book offers a common language for
researchers in assessment, as well as a primer for those interested
in understanding current work in the area of assessment. In
summary, it provides the opportunity to discuss large-scale and
classroom assessment by addressing the following main themes:
*Purposes, Traditions and Principles of Assessment *Design of
Assessment Tasks *Classroom Assessment in Action *Interactions of
Large-Scale and Classroom Assessment *Enhancing Sound Assessment
Knowledge and Practices It also suggests areas for future research
in assessment in mathematics education.
A novel. In the tour de force called America, one of the tired,
the poor, the huddled masses struggles upward to the penthouse of
God, discovering too late he's taken the elevator marked down.
Resurrected from the rubble of dreams as a messiah and accidental
revolutionary, his cry for freedom echoes like a broken record as
they lower him into the ground. Like a hopelessly lost coal miner,
he digs on, deflating the gloom with slapstick, pensive as a clown,
gathering strength for the next round.
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"Reading Rheda's short stories and novel has been a delightful
discovery for me.... Her style is full of wit, delicious and
sometimes devastating irony, and captivating poetic imagery. Her
book, in short, will be hard for readers to put down." -- David
George, Professor of Spanish, Lake Forest College
Regina Rheda is a contemporary award-winning Brazilian writer
whose original voice and style have won her many admirers. First
World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix presents some
of her finest and most representative work to an English-speaking
readership. Stories from the Copan Building consists of eight tales
set in a famous residential building in Sa o Paulo. The stories,
like the apartment complex, are a microcosm of modern-day urban
Brazil. They are witty, consistently caustic, and never
predictable.
Also in this volume is the poignant and often hilarious novel
First World Third Class. It depicts young middle-class
professionals and artists who, as opportunities in Brazil
diminished, opted to leave their country, even if it meant taking
menial jobs abroad. At the center of the narrative is Rita, a
thirty-year-old aspiring filmmaker who migrates to England, and
then Italy. She looks for work and love in all the wrong places,
moving from city to city and from bed to bed.
The last three stories in this collection also happen to be
among the author's most recent. "The Enchanted Princess" is an
ironic title for a postfeminist tale of a South American woman
being wooed to marry an old-world gentleman who promises to take
care of her every need. "The Sanctuary" concerns the living
conditions of immigrant workers and farm animals. Equally piquant
in nature,"The Front" deals with ecology, labor environments, and
gender politics.
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