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Assessment strategies for online learning: engagement and authenticity
For many learners, assessment conjures up visions of red pens scrawling percentages in the top right-hand corner of exams and feelings of stress, inadequacy, and failure. Although learners sometimes respond negatively to evaluation, assessments have provided educational institutions with important information about learning outcomes and the quality of education for many decades. But how accurat…
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- 9781771992336
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- xiii, 203 p.; 22 cm.
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- 371.26 CON a
Trauma-informed school practices : building expertise to transform schools
This textbook represents the combined insight and experience of Morton, a k12 educator, and Berardi, a psychotherapist, both of whom are also university educators with extensive work experience serving districts and their teachers seeking to incorporate trauma-informed principles into their school culture and classroom. The authors identify that the field of education is now ready to deepen its…
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- 9780999829226
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- 318p. : ill.
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- 371.7 BER t
Data information literacy : librarians, data, and the education of a new gene…
Given the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with research data will graduate students in STEM disciplines need to be successful in their fields? And what role can librarians play in helping students attain these competencies? In addressing these questions, this book articulates a new area of opportuni…
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- 9781612493527
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- x, 271p. : ill.
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- 028.70711 DAT d
Promoting effective enforcement of the prohibition against corporal punishmen…
About the publicationThe prohibition against corporal punishment is an integral part of the broader transformation of South African education. The prohibition seeks to replace South Africa’s violent and authoritarian past with an ethos respectful of human dignity and bodily integrity.About the editors:Faranaaz Veriava has a BA LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand and a LLM in human ri…
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- 9781920538248
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- 59 p.
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- 371.5420968 VER p
Student politics in Africa : representation and activism
The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and…
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- 9781928331223
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- xii, 267p. : ill.
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- 370.96 STU s
Educational change amongst english language college teachers in China : trans…
This open access book provides anthropological insights into the arduous yet rewarding journeys involved in selected TESOL teachers’ pedagogical transition to teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at universities in Shanghai, the largest metropolitan area in China. Applying a unique combination of ethnography and phenomenology, the book offers innovative new perspectives on teacher…
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- 9789811530531
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- x, 149p. : ill.
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- 378.1982951 LI e
State of empowerment : low-income families and the new welfare state
On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded after-school programs that offer tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision to millions of American children. Nearly one in four low-income families enroll a child in an after-school program. Beyond sharpening students’ math and readin…
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- 9780472131648
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- vii, 170p. : ill.
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- 371.04 BAR s
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