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As student learning objectives become an increasingly prominent
approach to setting goals and growth measures in schools, teachers'
competence in formative assessment is essential. Using Formative
Assessment to Support Student Learning Objectives introduces
current and future educators to SLOs as tools for shaping career-
and college-ready students. Written in concise and straightforward
language, and replete with step-by-step exercises, real-life
examples, and illustrative charts, this useful guide provides pre-
and in-service educators with the theoretical background and
practical tools needed to implement the latest SLO research in
their classrooms.
As student learning objectives become an increasingly prominent
approach to setting goals and growth measures in schools, teachers'
competence in formative assessment is essential. Using Formative
Assessment to Support Student Learning Objectives introduces
current and future educators to SLOs as tools for shaping career-
and college-ready students. Written in concise and straightforward
language, and replete with step-by-step exercises, real-life
examples, and illustrative charts, this useful guide provides pre-
and in-service educators with the theoretical background and
practical tools needed to implement the latest SLO research in
their classrooms.
If you want to know the secrets of Entrepreneurship, Black
Business, and Black Economics, then you're about to discover how
Millionaires make money from their own businesses right now In
fact, if you want to know How to start and grow a successful
business, then this "Conversations With Black Millionaire
Entrepreneurs: No-Non Sense Lessons From those Who've Been There,
Done That " - gives you the answers to Dozens of important
questions and challenges every black entrepreneur faces, including:
- What it really takes to become a millionaire entrepreneur - The
steps necessary to build a dynamic business - The type of mindset
you must have to be a successful entrepreneur - the characteristics
and traits of millionaire entrepreneurs - 5 hurdles you must
overcome ... and more So, if you're serious about wanting to make
money from your own business and you want to know How to start and
grow a successful business, then you need to grab a copy of
"Conversations With Black Millionaire Entrepreneurs: No-Non Sense
Lessons From those Who've Been There, Done That " right now,
because business Icons George Fraser and Dr. Dennis Kimbro along
with Entrepreneurship Expert, Brother Bedford, will reveal to you
how every black entrepreneur, regardless of experience level, can
succeed - Today
This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Johnson presents a humorous look at a boy's growing up experiences
in small town and rural America during the 1930Us and 40Us. His
problems are cast against the profound changes in American society
brought by the Great Depression and World War II.
A humorous look at a boy's growing up experiences in small town and
rural America during the 1930's and 40's. His problems are cast
against the profound changes in American society brought by the
Great Depression and World War II.
A sailor recounts service aboard the USS McGowan with Task Force 77
off Korea, in the siege of Wonsan Harbor, and on Destroyer Squadron
20's circumnavigation of the Globe. In 1953, McGowan joined NATO's
Operation Mariner in the North Atlantic.
The result of more than twenty years' collaborative work focusing on the heart of successful parenting, the acclaimed five disciplines program developed by Drs. Robert L. Johnson and Paulette Stanford has helped thousands of African-American children and their parents cope with the myriad of social challenges they confront each day. Now making this special prescription available to all parents, Strength for Their Journey offers insight into five interconnected areas:
• Traditional Discipline: The Strength to Embrace Parental Boundaries
• Racial Discipline: The Strength to Negotiate the Realities of Being a Racial Minority
• Emotional Discipline: The Strength to Resist Negative Peer Pressure and Temptation
• Practical Discipline: The Strength to Excel in School, Career, and Financial Pursuits
• Mind-Body Discipline: The Strength to Maintain Positive Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health
In a culture that often grants fewer safety nets to nonwhite children, Strength for Their Journey is a crucial book that African-American parents can turn to again and again, paving a path of confidence and joy for future generations.
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development
between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased
experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term
consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social
influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an
integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation
from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and
novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex,
and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive
functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most
youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond
adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity.
Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the
normal developmental process of identity formation and most
adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of
significant changes in brain structure and function during
adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies
characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological
immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing
brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one
involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in
socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature
capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that
influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more
rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This
knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important
differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on
the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts
about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile
justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in
this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a
committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal
of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to
review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and
draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice
reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring
in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in
carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in
supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Synthesizing the literature from the survey and measurement fields,
this book explains how to develop closed-response survey scales
that will accurately capture such constructs as attitudes, beliefs,
or behaviors. It provides guidelines to help applied researchers or
graduate students review existing scales for possible adoption or
adaptation in a study; create their own conceptual framework for a
scale; write checklists, true-false variations, and Likert-style
items; design response scales; examine validity and reliability;
conduct a factor analysis; and document the instrument development
and its technical quality. Advice is given on constructing tables
and graphs to report survey scale results. Concepts and procedures
are illustrated with "Not This/But This" examples from multiple
disciplines. User-Friendly Features *End-of-chapter exercises with
sample solutions, plus annotated suggestions for further reading.
*"Not This/But This" examples of poorly written and strong survey
items. *Chapter-opening overviews and within-chapter summaries.
*Glossary of key concepts. *Appendix with examples of parametric
and nonparametric procedures for group comparisons.
Synthesizing the literature from the survey and measurement fields,
this book explains how to develop closed-response survey scales
that will accurately capture such constructs as attitudes, beliefs,
or behaviors. It provides guidelines to help applied researchers or
graduate students review existing scales for possible adoption or
adaptation in a study; create their own conceptual framework for a
scale; write checklists, true-false variations, and Likert-style
items; design response scales; examine validity and reliability;
conduct a factor analysis; and document the instrument development
and its technical quality. Advice is given on constructing tables
and graphs to report survey scale results. Concepts and procedures
are illustrated with "Not This/But This" examples from multiple
disciplines. User-Friendly Features *End-of-chapter exercises with
sample solutions, plus annotated suggestions for further reading.
*"Not This/But This" examples of poorly written and strong survey
items. *Chapter-opening overviews and within-chapter summaries.
*Glossary of key concepts. *Appendix with examples of parametric
and nonparametric procedures for group comparisons.
A comprehensive resource for assessment practitioners, this book
provides step-by-step guidance for developing, administering,
scoring, and validating a range of performance tasks, including
literacy and other types of proficiency assessments. The authors
explore how to establish the purpose of the assessment and how to
develop scoring tools, train raters, reduce rater bias, review
scores and report results, and use item-level and test-level
analyses to optimize reliability and validity. Clearly written and
well organized, the book includes many practical examples and
accessible explanations of concepts and statistical procedures. It
encompasses the breadth of applications of performance assessment
today, from educational testing and the credentialing of
professionals to research and program evaluation. User-friendly
features include: * Checklists of activities to complete at each
stage of a performance assessment * End-of-chapter questions to
facilitate self-study * Annotated suggestions for further reading *
A quick-reference glossary of terms * Examples drawn from multiple
educational and professional licensure contexts
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