ENGL 1301 SO Harvey

Helping to maximise your pupil's potential

Cognitive style may well turn out to be the missing element in the study of individual differences. This text integrates and reviews research on style differences in learning and behaviour, and looks at how to assess style in adults and children.

From the authors of Student Success in College, the book that describes the policies, programs, and practices of twenty colleges and universities that have created success-oriented campus cultures and learning environments'comes the next-step resource to help an institution assess whether these conditions exist. The authors present the Inventory for Student Engagement and Success (ISES), a self-guided framework for conducting a comprehensive, systematic, institutionwide analysis.

The Case Against Standardized Testing will help readers respond to common questions and challenges - showing, for example, that: high scores often signify superficial thinking many leading tests were never intended to measure teaching or learning a school that improves its test results may well have lowered its standards to do so far more meaningful measures of student learning - or social quality - are available

Examining the state of the art in achievement testing and how testing and accountabiltiy can be used most effectively to promote positive educational outcomes.

This book is Montessori's own exposition of the theory behind her innovative educational techniques. She shows parents, teachers and administrators how to "free a child to learn through his own efforts".

Standardized testing, No Child Left Behind, and character education are among the topics covered in this newly updated anthology. Chapters include: What is the State of Education? Are Alternatives to Public Education Viable? What Role Should Religious and Moral Values Play in Public Education? How Could Public Education Be Improved?