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Author: A. Wade Boykin
Publisher: ASCD
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1416613064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore why some schools are making more progress than others, so you can focus on what works and build the capacity of high-performance, high-poverty schools.
Author: Pamela A. Moss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-04-07
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1139470566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding all students with a fair opportunity to learn (OTL) is perhaps the most pressing issue facing U.S. education. Moving beyond conventional notions of OTL – as access to content, often content tested; access to resources; or access to instructional processes – the authors reconceptualize OTL in terms of interaction among learners and elements of their learning environments. Drawing on socio-cultural, sociological, psychometric, and legal perspectives, this book provides historical critique, theory and principles, and concrete examples of practice through which learning, teaching, and assessment can be re-envisioned to support fair OTL for all students. It offers educators, researchers, and policy analysts new to socio-cultural perspectives an engaging introduction to fresh ideas for conceptualizing, enhancing, and assessing OTL; encourages those who already draw on socio-cultural resources to focus attention on OTL and assessment; and nurtures collaboration among members of discourse communities who have rarely engaged one another's work.
Author: Jaap Scheerens
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9783319431116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helen Abadzi
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0821366890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Large-scale efforts have been made since the 1990s to ensure that all children of the world go to school. But mere enrollment is not sufficient, students must become fluent in reading and calculation by the end of grade 2. Fluency is needed to process large amounts of text quickly and use the information for decisions that may ultimately reduce poverty. State-of-the-art brain imaging and cognitive psychology research can help formulate effective policies for improving the basic skills of low-income students. This book integrates research into applications that extend from preschool brain development to the memory of adult educators. In layman?'s terms, it provides explanations and answers to questions such as: Why do children have to read fast before they can understand what they read? How do health, nutrition, and stimulation influence brain development? Why should students learn basic skills in their maternal language? Is there such a thing as an untrained teacher? What signs in a classroom show whether students are getting a quality education? How must information be presented in class so that students can retain it and use it? What training techniques are most likely to help staff put their learning into use? This book would be useful to policymakers, donor agency staff, teacher trainers, supervisors, and inspectors, as well as university professors and students."
Author: Matthew L. Sanders
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781533926937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author explains why becoming a learner, rather than acquiring specific job skills, is the primary purpose of higher education.
Author: Floraline I. Stevens
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. Wade Boykin
Publisher: ASCD
Published: 2011-09-08
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1416614079
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Unless we believe that those who have more are inherently superior to those who have less, we should be troubled by the fact that patterns of achievement are often fairly predictable, particularly with respect to students' race and class." In Creating the Opportunity to Learn, Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera help navigate the turbid waters of evidence-based methodologies and chart a course toward closing (and eliminating) the academic achievement gap. Turning a critical eye to current and recent research, the authors present a comprehensive view of the achievement gap and advocate for strategies that contribute to the success of all children. Boykin and Noguera maintain that it is possible to close the achievement gap by abandoning failed strategies, learning from successful schools, and simply doing more of what the research shows is most effective. Success is founded on equity, but equity involves more than simply ensuring students have equal access to education; equity also entails a focus on outcomes and results. If we want to bring about significant improvements in those outcomes, we have to do more to address the context in which learning takes place. In short, we must create schools where a child's race or class is no longer a predictor for how well he or she might perform.
Author: Jaap Scheerens
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 3319431102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a review of the effectiveness of Opportunity to Learn (OTL) operationalized as the association between OTL and student achievement. In addition, it presents an elaborate conceptual map in which OTL is regarded as part of a larger concept of curriculum alignment. Major components of this framework are national goals and standards, school curricula, formative tests, textbooks, actual delivery of content as part of teaching, and summative tests and examinations.Alignment between educational goals, intended and implemented curricula, and educational outcomes is considered an important prerequisite for effective education. The expectation is that better alignment leads to better student performance. The concept of OTL is commonly used to compare content covered, as part of the implemented curriculum, with student achievement. As such it is to be seen as a facet of the broader concept of “alignment”. As it comes to enhancing OTL in educational policy and practice, proactive curriculum development is compared to a more retroactive orientation. Legitimate forms of test and examination preparation belong to this retroactive orientation, and are seen as favorable conditions for optimizing OTL. This book reviews the research evidence on the effects of OTL on student achievement by means of detailed descriptions of key-empirical studies, a review of meta-analyses, a “vote count” syntheses of 51 empirical studies, conducted between 1995 and 2015, and a secondary analysis based on TIMSS 2011, and PISA 2012 data. It concludes that the effect size of OTL, at about .30, is modest, but comparable in size to other effectiveness-enhancing conditions in schooling. The final chapter of the book provides suggestions for educational policy and practice to further optimize OTL. /div
Author: Marilyn Rauth
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew L. Sanders
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9781533904065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author explains why becoming a learner, rather than acquiring specific job skills, is the primary purpose of higher education.
