Product Description: Assessment for Teaching is a comprehensive and practical introduction to assessment and learning in primary and secondary school settings. This book treats assessment as a source of data that informs teaching strategies. It replaces a deficit model of assessment with a development model: a framework which recognises the importance of identifying what the student is ready to learn...read more

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Describes the impact of the war that raged along America's western frontier during the American Revolution, showing that the events and circumstances affecting settlers brought about fundamental changes in social relations and political allegiances.

Complete with archival images and period maps, a comprehensive guide to the colonial history of the state of North Carolina provides a look at its founders, diverse immigrants, and significant battles, including the Battle at Moore's Creek Bridge.

Profiles are developmental scales depicting progress in learning. They are designed to assist teachers, schools, and systems with the complex process of assessment, recording, and reporting on students' developing competencies and achievements. They are criterion-referenced interpretive frameworks and are sometimes called standards-referenced frameworks. Profiles in English as a Second Language is designed to help teachers who want to implement an approach to assessment and reporting that supports the wholeness of the teaching/learning/assessment enterprise. It focuses on assessment as a way of improving the education of students who are learning English as a second or additional language. The teacher is the prime assessment instrument. Moreover, the research data indicate that reliability of teacher judgment using these approaches often exceeds that of standardized texts. The book includes examples of assessment contexts, teaching strategies, and record-keeping and reporting procedures. The profiles provide a useful framework for interpreting observations of students' language development and for organizing description of their achievement. They not only help teachers to become better observers, they lead to a clearer approach to planning instruction, assisting student learning, mapping the progress of individuals, and developing a common language with other teachers for describing that progress. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Irish law. An accessible and comprehensive introduction to the complex principles of European commercial law Today, EU law is influencing the conduct of business at every level. With an ever-increasing number of new developments, it is becoming more and more necessary for students of law, lawyers and businesses to understand the nature and scope of European commercial law...read more

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Product Description: Designed to help teachers who want to implement an approach to assessment and reporting that supports the wholeness of the teaching/learning/assessment enterprise. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This software provides a framework for reporting on different aspects of student performance in an assessment program. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)