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Product Description: The effective use of educational assessments is fundamental to improving learning. However, effective use does not refer only to the technical parameters or statistical methodologies. Learning assessments in use todaywhether large-scale or household surveys or hybrid (smaller, quicker, cheaper or SQC)have varied uses and purposes...read more

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Product Description: Through the experiences of each of the authors, specialists from all over the world, men and women who have contributed to the Bioethics Programme of UNESCO, here are thirty articles of four pages each providing us with many accessible definitions of bioethics and its use...read more

Product Description: This book was prepared within the scope of the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention and is composed of articles written based on original research studies and independent evaluations of the esteemed academicians known in Turkey and internationally and that make known the properties of Turkey included on the World Heritage List...read more

Product Description: The creative economy is not only one of the most rapidly growing sectors of the world economy; it is also a highly transformative one in terms of income generation, job creation and export earnings. But this is not at all there is to it...read more

Product Description: This book presents state-of-the-art analyses of early childhood care and education (ECCE) as the foundation for lifelong learning and development. It features various lessons from research and experience, addressing investment rationales, equity and quality...read more

Product Description: The current loss or degradation of biodiversity due to human impact is now occurring at an unprecedented pace at local and global levels, threatening our environment, economies, cultures and societies. This pedagogical kit presents our current knowledge of the various hierarchical levels of biodiversity and the role it plays in the maintenance of human cultures, identities and well-being...read more

Product Description: Internet intermediaries play a unique role in linking authors of content and audiences. They may either protect or jeopardize end user rights to free expression, given their role in capturing, storing, searching, sharing, transferring and processing large amounts of information, data and user-generated content...read more