125 Ebooks de Center for Education
Andrew W. Shouse & Board on Science Education: Ready, Set, SCIENCE!
What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, …
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Center for Education & Committee on Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers
Teachers, like other professionals, need to stay informed about new knowledge and technologies. Yet many express dissatisfaction with the professional development opportunities made available to them …
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Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Research on Future Skill Demands
Over the past five years, business and education groups have issued a series of reports indicating that the skill demands of work are rising, due to rapid technological change and increasing global c …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: NASA’s Elementary and Secondary Education Program
The federal role in precollege science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is receiving increasing attention in light of the need to support public understanding of science and …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: Learning Science in Informal Environments
Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families, and society. The evidence base that describes i …
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€49.63
Center for Education & Committee on State Standards in Education: A Workshop Series: Assessing the Role of K-12 Academic Standards in States
Every state in the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense Education Activity now has its own academic standards, at least in core subjects. These documents vary in the …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Assessing Accomplished Teaching
The mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is to establish high and rigorous standards for what teachers should know and be able to do, to certify teachers who meet …
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Center for Education & Committee on State Standards in Education: A Workshop Series: Common Standards for K-12 Education?
Standards-based accountability has become a central feature of the public education system in each state and is a theme of national discussions about how achievement for all students can be improved …
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€28.42
Center for Education & Committee on National Statistics: Protecting Student Records and Facilitating Education Research
Designed to protect the privacy of individual student test scores, grades, and other education records, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 places limits the access of educa …
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Center for Education & Committee on Early Childhood Mathematics: Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood
Early childhood mathematics is vitally important for young children’s present and future educational success. Research demonstrates that virtually all young children have the capability to learn and …
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Center for Education & Committee on the Study of Teacher Preparation Programs in the United States: Preparing Teachers
Teachers make a difference. The success of any plan for improving educational outcomes depends on the teachers who carry it out and thus on the abilities of those attracted to the field and their pre …
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Andrew W. Shouse & Board on Science Education: Ready, Set, SCIENCE!
What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, …
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Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Helping Children Learn Mathematics
Results from national and international assessments indicate that school children in the United States are not learning mathematics well enough. Many students cannot correctly apply computational alg …
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Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Adding It Up
Adding It Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula, and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning during thes …
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Center for Education & Committee on Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards: Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards
The National Science Education Standards address not only what students should learn about science but also how their learning should be assessed. How do we know what they know?This accompanying volu …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Knowing What Students Know
Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight’s dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improvin …
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Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Economic, academic, and social forces are causing undergraduate schools to start a fresh examination of teaching effectiveness. Administrators face the complex task of developing equitable, predictab …
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Center for Education & Committee on Scientific Principles for Education Research: Scientific Research in Education
Researchers, historians, and philosophers of science have debated the nature of scientific research in education for more than 100 years. Recent enthusiasm for "evidence-based" policy and p …
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Center for Education & Committee for a Review of the Evaluation Data on the Effectiveness of NSF-Supported and Commercially Generated Mathematics Curriculum Materials: On Evaluating Curricular Effectiveness
This book reviews the evaluation research literature that has accumulated around 19 K-12 mathematics curricula and breaks new ground in framing an ambitious and rigorous approach to curriculum evalua …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: America’s Lab Report
Laboratory experiences as a part of most U.S. high school science curricula have been taken for granted for decades, but they have rarely been carefully examined. What do they contribute to science l …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: Taking Science to School
What is science for a child? How do children learn about science and how to do science? Drawing on a vast array of work from neuroscience to classroom observation, Taking Science to School provides a …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Assessing Accomplished Teaching
The mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is to establish high and rigorous standards for what teachers should know and be able to do, to certify teachers who meet …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: Surrounded by Science
Practitioners in informal science settingsmuseums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, libraries, aquariums, zoos, and botanical gardensare interested in finding …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: Learning Science in Informal Environments
Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families, and society. The evidence base that describes i …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: Exploring the Intersection of Science Education and 21st Century Skills
An emerging body of research suggests that a set of broad "21st century skills"such as adaptability, complex communication skills, and the ability to solve non-routine problemsare valuable …
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Center for Education & Committee on Early Childhood Mathematics: Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood
Early childhood mathematics is vitally important for young children’s present and future educational success. Research demonstrates that virtually all young children have the capability to learn and …
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€61.42
Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Getting Value Out of Value-Added
Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools, or programs to student test performance. In recent years, these methods have attracted consi …
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€21.27
Board on Science Education & Center for Education: Exploring the Intersection of Science Education and 21st Century Skills
An emerging body of research suggests that a set of broad "21st century skills"such as adaptability, complex communication skills, and the ability to solve non-routine problemsare valuable …
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Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Getting Value Out of Value-Added
Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools, or programs to student test performance. In recent years, these methods have attracted consi …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: Surrounded by Science
Practitioners in informal science settingsmuseums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, libraries, aquariums, zoos, and botanical gardensare interested in finding …
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Center for Education & Committee on Best Practices for State Assessment Systems: Improving Assessment While Revisiting Standards: Best Practices for State Assessment Systems, Part I
Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years. During the twentieth century, technical advances, such as machines for a …
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Center for Education & Committee on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap: Language Diversity, School Learning, and Closing Achievement Gaps
The Workshop on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap was held to explore three questions: What is known about the conditions that affect language deve …
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Center for Education & Committee on the Study of Teacher Preparation Programs in the United States: Preparing Teachers
Teachers make a difference. The success of any plan for improving educational outcomes depends on the teachers who carry it out and thus on the abilities of those attracted to the field and their pre …
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Center for Education & Committee on Best Practices for State Assessment Systems: Improving Assessment While Revisiting Standards: Best Practices for State Assessment Systems, Part I
Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years. During the twentieth century, technical advances, such as machines for a …
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€33.28
Center for Education & Committee on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap: Language Diversity, School Learning, and Closing Achievement Gaps
The Workshop on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap was held to explore three questions: What is known about the conditions that affect language deve …
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Center for Education & Committee on Best Practices for State Assessment Systems: Improving Assessment While Revisiting Standards: State Assessment Systems
Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years, and have used the results for many purposes. They have tried minimum com …
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Center for Education & Committee for Improved Measurement of High School Dropout and Completion Rates: Expert Guidance on Next Steps for Research and Policy Workshop: High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates
High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and economic well being. While determining these rates ma …
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Center for Education & Committee to Review the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Education Programs: International Education and Foreign Languages
International Education and Foreign Languages reviews the Department of Education’s Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs, which provide higher education funding for international education and foreig …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Systems for State Science Assessment
In response to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), Systems for State Science Assessment explores the ideas andtools that are needed to assess science learning at the state level. Thisbook pr …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Measuring Literacy
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) is a household survey conductedperiodically by the Department of Education that evaluates the literacy skills of asample of adults in the United Stage …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: Mathematical and Scientific Development in Early Childhood
Expectations for early learning are very different than they were even as recently as a decade ago. With increased recognition of the intellectual capacities of young children, as well as a growing u …
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Center for Education & Committee on Research in Education: Strengthening Peer Review in Federal Agencies That Support Education Research
Peer review is a method used to inform decision-making by engaging experts in a critical evaluation of the merits of a product or proposal. It is most commonly known as a mechanism for judging the qu …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Keeping Score for All
U.S. public schools are responsible for educating large numbers of English languagelearners and students with disabilities. This book considers policies for including studentswith disabilities and En …
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Center for Education & Committee on Research in Education: Implementing Randomized Field Trials in Education
The central idea of evidence-based education-that education policy and practice ought to be fashioned based on what is known from rigorous research-offers a compelling way to approach reform efforts. …
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Center for Education & Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards: Monitoring International Labor Standards
This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with coreinternational labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpretingall relevant information into …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning
Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning is the summary of a National Research Council workshop convened to examine the gap between external andclassroom assessment. This report discusses is …
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Center for Education & Committee on Improving Learning with Information Technology: Planning for Two Transformations in Education and Learning Technology
In response to concerns about the continued unrealized potential of IT in K-12 education, the National Research Council’s Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Educatio …
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Center for Education & Committee on Undergraduate Science Education: Improving Undergraduate Instruction in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Participants in this workshop were asked to explore three related questions: (1) how to create measures of undergraduate learning in STEM courses; (2) how such measures might be organized into a fram …
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Center for Education & Committee on Improving Measures of Access to Equal Educational Opportunity: Measuring Access to Learning Opportunities
Since 1968 the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report (known as the ES survey) has been used to gather information about possible disparities in access to learning opportuniti …
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Board on International Comparative Studies in Education & Board on Testing and Assessment: Understanding Others, Educating Ourselves
Since 1988, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) at the (U.S.) National Research Council of the National Academies has engaged in activities designed to increase the ri …
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Center for Education & Committee on Science Education K-12: What Is the Influence of the National Science Education Standards?
In 2001, with support from National Science Foundation, the National Research Council began a review of the evidence concerning whether or not the National Science Education Standards have had an imp …
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Center for Education & Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics PhDs to K-12 Education: From Analysis to Implementation: Attracting PhDs to K-12 Education
The National Research Council (NRC) has undertaken a three-phase project to explore the possibility of a program to attract science, mathematics and engineering Ph Ds to careers in K-12 education. Th …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Reporting Test Results for Students with Disabilities and English-Language Learners
At the request of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Research Council’s (NRC) Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) convened a workshop on reporting test results for individuals who rece …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Performance Assessments for Adult Education
In the United States, the nomenclature of adult education includes adult literacy, adult secondary education, and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) services provided to undereducated and …
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Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Learning with Information Technology
In spring 2000, representatives from the U.S. Department of Education (DOEd) and senior staff at the National Research Council (NRC) recognized a common frustration: that the potential of information …
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Board on International Comparative Studies in Education & Board on Testing and Assessment: Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement
In November 2000, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) held a symposium to draw on the wealth of experience gathered over a fourdecade period, to evaluate improvement i …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Technology and Assessment
The papers in this collection were commissioned by the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Research Council (NRC) for a workshop held on November 14, 2001, with support from the Wi …
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Board on International Scientific Organizations & Center for Education: Studying Classroom Teaching as a Medium for Professional Development
The Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB) and the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNCMI) took advantage of a unique opportunity to bring educators together. In August 200 …
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Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Enhancing Undergraduate Learning with Information Technology
Enhancing Undergraduate Learning with Information Technology reports on a meeting of scientists, policy makers, and researchers convened to discuss new approaches to undergraduate science, mathematic …
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Center for Education & Committee on Decisions That Count: Improving Mathematics Education
Improving Mathematics Education has been designed to help inform stakeholders about the decisions they face, to point to recent research findings, and to provide access to the most recent thinking of …
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Center for Education & Committee on the Impact of the Changing Economy on the Education System: Knowledge Economy and Postsecondary Education
The Workshop on the Knowledge Economy and Postsecondary Education documents changes seen in the postsecondary education system. In her report Lisa Hudson focuses on who is participating in postsecond …
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Board on International Comparative Studies in Education & Board on Testing and Assessment: Power of Video Technology in International Comparative Research in Education
Video technology offers a number of important potential benefits to researchers and policy makers interested in international comparative research. However, a number of practical and methodological i …
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Center for Education & Committee on Programs for Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in American High Schools: Learning and Understanding
This book takes a fresh look at programs for advanced studies for high school students in the United States, with a particular focus on the Advanced Placement and the International Baccalaureate prog …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Testing Teacher Candidates
Americans have adopted a reform agenda for their schools that calls for excellence in teaching and learning. School officials across the nation are hard at work targeting instruction at high levels f …
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Center for Education & Mathematical Sciences Education Board: Knowing and Learning Mathematics for Teaching
There are many questions about the mathematical preparation teachers need. Recent recommendations from a variety of sources state that reforming teacher preparation in postsecondary institutions is c …
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Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Investigating the Influence of Standards
Since 1989, with the publication of Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for Mathematics by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, standards have been at the forefront of the education refor …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: NASA’s Elementary and Secondary Education Program
The federal role in precollege science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is receiving increasing attention in light of the need to support public understanding of science and …
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€53.25
Center for Education & Committee on National Statistics: Protecting Student Records and Facilitating Education Research
Designed to protect the privacy of individual student test scores, grades, and other education records, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 places limits the access of educa …
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€41.17
Center for Education & Committee on State Standards in Education: A Workshop Series: Common Standards for K-12 Education?
Standards-based accountability has become a central feature of the public education system in each state and is a theme of national discussions about how achievement for all students can be improved …
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Center for Education & Committee on State Standards in Education: A Workshop Series: Assessing the Role of K-12 Academic Standards in States
Every state in the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense Education Activity now has its own academic standards, at least in core subjects. These documents vary in the …
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Center for Education & Committee on Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers
Teachers, like other professionals, need to stay informed about new knowledge and technologies. Yet many express dissatisfaction with the professional development opportunities made available to them …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: ICT Fluency and High Schools
Information and communications technology (ICT) pervades virtually all domains of modern lifeeducational, professional, social, and personal. Yet although there have been numerous calls for linkages …
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Center for Education & Committee on Research in Education: Advancing Scientific Research in Education
Transforming education into an evidence-based field depends in no small part on a strong base of scientific knowledge to inform educational policy and practice. Advancing Scientific Research in Educa …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: NAEP Reporting Practices
At the request of the Department of Education, the National Research Council formed the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to address questions about the desirability, feasibility, and potential i …
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Center for Education & Committee on Scientific Principles in Education Research: Science, Evidence, and Inference in Education
Research on education has come into the political spotlight as the demand grows for reliable and credible information for the guidance of policy and practice in the education reform environment. Many …
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Center for Education & Committee on Best Practices for State Assessment Systems: Improving Assessment While Revisiting Standards: State Assessment Systems
Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years, and have used the results for many purposes. They have tried minimum com …
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€49.08
Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Research on Future Skill Demands
Over the past five years, business and education groups have issued a series of reports indicating that the skill demands of work are rising, due to rapid technological change and increasing global c …
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€46.32
Center for Education & Committee for Improved Measurement of High School Dropout and Completion Rates: Expert Guidance on Next Steps for Research and Policy Workshop: High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates
High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and economic well being. While determining these rates ma …
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€46.43
Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Reporting Test Results for Students with Disabilities and English-Language Learners
At the request of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Research Council’s (NRC) Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) convened a workshop on reporting test results for individuals who rece …
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€27.26
Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Performance Assessments for Adult Education
In the United States, the nomenclature of adult education includes adult literacy, adult secondary education, and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) services provided to undereducated and …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: NAEP Reporting Practices
At the request of the Department of Education, the National Research Council formed the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to address questions about the desirability, feasibility, and potential i …
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€48.27
Center for Education & Committee on Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards: Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards
The National Science Education Standards address not only what students should learn about science but also how their learning should be assessed. How do we know what they know?This accompanying volu …
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€24.96
Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Learning with Information Technology
In spring 2000, representatives from the U.S. Department of Education (DOEd) and senior staff at the National Research Council (NRC) recognized a common frustration: that the potential of information …
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€34.68
Center for Education & Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics PhDs to K-12 Education: From Analysis to Implementation: Attracting PhDs to K-12 Education
The National Research Council (NRC) has undertaken a three-phase project to explore the possibility of a program to attract science, mathematics and engineering Ph Ds to careers in K-12 education. Th …
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€28.95
Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Adding It Up
Adding It Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula, and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning during thes …
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€34.56
Center for Education & Committee on Improving Measures of Access to Equal Educational Opportunity: Measuring Access to Learning Opportunities
Since 1968 the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report (known as the ES survey) has been used to gather information about possible disparities in access to learning opportuniti …
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€28.71
Center for Education & Committee on the Impact of the Changing Economy on the Education System: Knowledge Economy and Postsecondary Education
The Workshop on the Knowledge Economy and Postsecondary Education documents changes seen in the postsecondary education system. In her report Lisa Hudson focuses on who is participating in postsecond …
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€33.96
Board on International Comparative Studies in Education & Board on Testing and Assessment: Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement
In November 2000, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) held a symposium to draw on the wealth of experience gathered over a fourdecade period, to evaluate improvement i …
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€54.69
Center for Education & Committee on Science Education K-12: What Is the Influence of the National Science Education Standards?
In 2001, with support from National Science Foundation, the National Research Council began a review of the evidence concerning whether or not the National Science Education Standards have had an imp …
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€34.60
Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Enhancing Undergraduate Learning with Information Technology
Enhancing Undergraduate Learning with Information Technology reports on a meeting of scientists, policy makers, and researchers convened to discuss new approaches to undergraduate science, mathematic …
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€32.66
Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Technology and Assessment
The papers in this collection were commissioned by the Board on Testing and Assessment (BOTA) of the National Research Council (NRC) for a workshop held on November 14, 2001, with support from the Wi …
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€36.86
Center for Education & Committee on Scientific Principles for Education Research: Scientific Research in Education
Researchers, historians, and philosophers of science have debated the nature of scientific research in education for more than 100 years. Recent enthusiasm for "evidence-based" policy and p …
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€24.96
Center for Education & Committee on Undergraduate Science Education: Improving Undergraduate Instruction in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Participants in this workshop were asked to explore three related questions: (1) how to create measures of undergraduate learning in STEM courses; (2) how such measures might be organized into a fram …
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€39.56
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Center for Education: Studying Classroom Teaching as a Medium for Professional Development
The Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB) and the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNCMI) took advantage of a unique opportunity to bring educators together. In August 200 …
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€43.84
Board on International Comparative Studies in Education & Board on Testing and Assessment: Power of Video Technology in International Comparative Research in Education
Video technology offers a number of important potential benefits to researchers and policy makers interested in international comparative research. However, a number of practical and methodological i …
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Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Evaluating and Improving Undergraduate Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Economic, academic, and social forces are causing undergraduate schools to start a fresh examination of teaching effectiveness. Administrators face the complex task of developing equitable, predictab …
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€39.56
Center for Education & Committee on Programs for Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in American High Schools: Learning and Understanding
This book takes a fresh look at programs for advanced studies for high school students in the United States, with a particular focus on the Advanced Placement and the International Baccalaureate prog …
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€44.47
Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Investigating the Influence of Standards
Since 1989, with the publication of Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for Mathematics by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, standards have been at the forefront of the education refor …
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€27.67
Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Knowing What Students Know
Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight’s dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for improvin …
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€49.34
Center for Education & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Helping Children Learn Mathematics
Results from national and international assessments indicate that school children in the United States are not learning mathematics well enough. Many students cannot correctly apply computational alg …
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Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Testing Teacher Candidates
Americans have adopted a reform agenda for their schools that calls for excellence in teaching and learning. School officials across the nation are hard at work targeting instruction at high levels f …
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€49.34
Board on International Comparative Studies in Education & Board on Testing and Assessment: Understanding Others, Educating Ourselves
Since 1988, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) at the (U.S.) National Research Council of the National Academies has engaged in activities designed to increase the ri …
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€34.56
Center for Education & Committee on Improving Learning with Information Technology: Planning for Two Transformations in Education and Learning Technology
In response to concerns about the continued unrealized potential of IT in K-12 education, the National Research Council’s Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Educatio …
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€34.65
Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning
Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning is the summary of a National Research Council workshop convened to examine the gap between external andclassroom assessment. This report discusses is …
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€34.88
Center for Education & Committee on Research in Education: Strengthening Peer Review in Federal Agencies That Support Education Research
Peer review is a method used to inform decision-making by engaging experts in a critical evaluation of the merits of a product or proposal. It is most commonly known as a mechanism for judging the qu …
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€28.16
Center for Education & Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards: Monitoring International Labor Standards
This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with coreinternational labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpretingall relevant information into …
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€44.28
Center for Education & Committee on Research in Education: Implementing Randomized Field Trials in Education
The central idea of evidence-based education-that education policy and practice ought to be fashioned based on what is known from rigorous research-offers a compelling way to approach reform efforts. …
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€21.27
Center for Education & Committee for a Review of the Evaluation Data on the Effectiveness of NSF-Supported and Commercially Generated Mathematics Curriculum Materials: On Evaluating Curricular Effectiveness
This book reviews the evaluation research literature that has accumulated around 19 K-12 mathematics curricula and breaks new ground in framing an ambitious and rigorous approach to curriculum evalua …
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€48.24
Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Keeping Score for All
U.S. public schools are responsible for educating large numbers of English languagelearners and students with disabilities. This book considers policies for including studentswith disabilities and En …
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€35.96
Center for Education & Committee on Research in Education: Advancing Scientific Research in Education
Transforming education into an evidence-based field depends in no small part on a strong base of scientific knowledge to inform educational policy and practice. Advancing Scientific Research in Educa …
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€25.04
Board on Science Education & Center for Education: Mathematical and Scientific Development in Early Childhood
Expectations for early learning are very different than they were even as recently as a decade ago. With increased recognition of the intellectual capacities of young children, as well as a growing u …
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€21.07
Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Measuring Literacy
The National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) is a household survey conductedperiodically by the Department of Education that evaluates the literacy skills of asample of adults in the United Stage …
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€48.45
Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Systems for State Science Assessment
In response to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), Systems for State Science Assessment explores the ideas andtools that are needed to assess science learning at the state level. Thisbook pr …
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€43.86
Center for Education & Committee on Scientific Principles in Education Research: Science, Evidence, and Inference in Education
Research on education has come into the political spotlight as the demand grows for reliable and credible information for the guidance of policy and practice in the education reform environment. Many …
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€14.80
Center for Education & Committee on Decisions That Count: Improving Mathematics Education
Improving Mathematics Education has been designed to help inform stakeholders about the decisions they face, to point to recent research findings, and to provide access to the most recent thinking of …
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€21.23
Board on Science Education & Center for Education: America’s Lab Report
Laboratory experiences as a part of most U.S. high school science curricula have been taken for granted for decades, but they have rarely been carefully examined. What do they contribute to science l …
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€49.44
Board on Science Education & Center for Education: Taking Science to School
What is science for a child? How do children learn about science and how to do science? Drawing on a vast array of work from neuroscience to classroom observation, Taking Science to School provides a …
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Board on Science Education & Center for Education: ICT Fluency and High Schools
Information and communications technology (ICT) pervades virtually all domains of modern lifeeducational, professional, social, and personal. Yet although there have been numerous calls for linkages …
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€27.41
Center for Education & Committee to Review the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Education Programs: International Education and Foreign Languages
International Education and Foreign Languages reviews the Department of Education’s Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs, which provide higher education funding for international education and foreig …
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€49.74
Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Understanding Dropouts
The role played by testing in the nation’s public school system has been increasing steadilyand growing more complicatedfor more than 20 years. The Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equ …
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€30.50
Center for Education & Committee on Science and Mathematics Teacher Preparation: Educating Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology
Each new headline about American students’ poor performance in math and science leads to new calls for reform in teaching. Education Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology puts the whole pi …
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€46.43
Center for Education & Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Teaching: Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Education
The National Research Council conducted a study to identify a set of incentives that state governments and local school districts can use to attract Ph.D. scientists and mathematicians to secondary s …
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€57.89
Center for Education & Committee on Science and Mathematics Teacher Preparation: Educating Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology
Each new headline about American students’ poor performance in math and science leads to new calls for reform in teaching. Education Teachers of Science, Mathematics, and Technology puts the whole pi …
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€34.56
Board on Testing and Assessment & Center for Education: Understanding Dropouts
The role played by testing in the nation’s public school system has been increasing steadilyand growing more complicatedfor more than 20 years. The Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equ …
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€21.28
Center for Education & Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Teaching: Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Education
The National Research Council conducted a study to identify a set of incentives that state governments and local school districts can use to attract Ph.D. scientists and mathematicians to secondary s …
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€53.14
