Instruction That Measures Up

Author : W. James Popham
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416608966
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instruction that Measures Up written by W. James Popham and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2009 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-stakes testing. Mandated content standards and benchmarks. Public scrutiny of student and school performance. Accountability. Teachers today are challenged to provide instruction that will measure up: to the expectations of administrators, parents, and taxpayers; to their own professional standards; and, most essentially, to the needs of students. Policy debates rage in the press, and pedagogical pundits always have a new and better solution to offer, but inside the walls of the classroom, instruction boils down to teachers deciding what they want their students to learn, planning how to promote that learning, implementing those plans, and then determining if the plans worked. And the best instructional decisions are informed by empirical research, assessment evidence, and the sound judgment of the professional educator. In this book, W. James Popham calls on his half-century in the classroom to provide a practical, four-stage framework for guiding teachers through their most important instructional decisions: curriculum determination, instructional design, instructional monitoring, and instructional evaluation. Along the way, he emphasizes the critical ways in which assessment can and should influence instruction, advocates for a dash of curricular insurrection, and offers advice for maintaining both teaching excellence and teachers' sanity.

Author : W. James Popham
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416616195
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instruction That Measures Up written by W. James Popham and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-stakes testing. Mandated content standards and benchmarks. Public scrutiny of student and school performance. Accountability. Teachers today are challenged to provide instruction that will measure up: to the expectations of administrators, parents, and taxpayers; to their own professional standards; and, most essentially, to the needs of students. Policy debates rage in the press, and pedagogical pundits always have a new and better solution to offer, but inside the walls of the classroom, instruction boils down to teachers deciding what they want their students to learn, planning how to promote that learning, implementing those plans, and then determining if the plans worked. And the best instructional decisions are informed by empirical research, assessment evidence, and the sound judgment of the professional educator. In this book, W. James Popham calls on his half-century in the classroom to provide a practical, four-stage framework for guiding teachers through their most important instructional decisions: curriculum determination, instructional design, instructional monitoring, and instructional evaluation. Along the way, he emphasizes the critical ways in which assessment can and should influence instruction, advocates for a dash of curricular insurrection, and offers advice for maintaining both teaching excellence and teachers' sanity.

Author : Daniel Koretz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674254988
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Measuring Up written by Daniel Koretz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can’t tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most. The complexities of testing are routinely ignored, either because they are unrecognized, or because they may be—well, complicated. 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. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Daniel Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high-stakes testing to special education. He walks readers through everyday examples to show what tests do well, what their limits are, how easily tests and scores can be oversold or misunderstood, and how they can be used sensibly to help discover how much kids have learned.

Author : W. James Popham
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 1416619747
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formative Assessment written by W. James Popham and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter from W. James Popham’s Instruction That Measures Up details how classroom teachers can use formative assessment to determine how well they are teaching material, how well their students are learning it, and what steps will get both teaching and learning back on track if the results fall short of expectations.

Author : Giles Murrel Ruch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tests and Measurements in High School Instruction written by Giles Murrel Ruch and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gaea Leinhardt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135440654
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analysis of Arithmetic for Mathematics Teaching written by Gaea Leinhardt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume emerges from a partnership between the American Federation of Teachers and the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. The partnership brought together researchers and expert teachers for intensive dialogue sessions focusing on what each community knows about effective mathematical learning and instruction. The chapters deal with the research on, and conceptual analysis of, specific arithmetic topics (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, and fractions) or with overarching themes that pervade the early curriculum and constitute the links with the more advanced topics of mathematics (intuition, number sense, and estimation). Serving as a link between the communities of cognitive researchers and mathematics educators, the book capitalizes on the recent research successes of cognitive science and reviews the literature of the math education community as well.

Author : United States. Air Force ROTC.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do You Measure Up to Air Force ROTC? written by United States. Air Force ROTC. and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Air Force
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Do You Measure Up to Air Force ROTC? written by United States. Air Force and published by . This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia written by Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. also contain reports of cases in the General Court of Virginia.

Author : Chris Confer
Publisher : Math Solutions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sizing Up Measurement written by Chris Confer and published by Math Solutions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The lessons in Sizing Up Measurement: Activities for Grades 3-5 Classrooms focus on length, area, volume, angles, weight, time, and temperature. Each lesson is organized in an accessible, easy-to-use format that includes an overview, a list of materials, a vocabulary list, and step-by-step teaching directions. Students come away from these lessons with a deeper understanding of why and how to measure, and they develop the confidence required to make sense of any situation and the measurement tools involved."--pub. desc.