Refugee Roulette
Refugee Roulette

Author: Jaya Ramji-Nogales

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2011-04-29

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0814741061

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The first analysis of decisions at all four levels of the asylum adjudication process : the Department of Homeland Security, the immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the United States Courts of Appeals. The data reveal tremendous disparities in asylum approval rates, even when different adjudicators in the same office each considered large numbers of applications from nationals of the same country. After providing a thorough empirical analysis, the authors make recommendations for future reform. From publisher description.

Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment
Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment

Author: Thomas A. Romberg

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780791421611

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Today new ways of thinking about learning call for new ways for monitoring learning. Reform in School Mathematics builds from the vision that assessment can become the bridge for instructional activity, accountability, and teacher development. It places teachers in key roles while developing the theme that we cannot reform the way in which school mathematics is taught without radically reforming the ways the effects of that teaching are monitored. Among others, this volume addresses the issues of the specification of performance standards, the development of authentic tasks, the measure of status and growth or a combination, the development of psychometric models, and the development of scoring rubrics. The new models proposed in this book give teachers a wealth of nontraditional assessment strategies and concrete ways to obtain measures of both group and individual differences in growth.