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Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment. Nevertheless, assessment professionals have disagreed about the meaning of validity almost from theintroduction of the term as applied to testing about 100 years ago. Over the years, the best andbrightest people in assessment have contributed their thinking to this problem and the fact thatthey have not agreed is testimony to the complexity and importance of validity...

What is it? The Public Administration Genome Project (PAGP) is a grand attempt to digitally "map" and then usefully employ the full set of topics, variables, and interrelationships that comprise and involve all of the "genes" that make up public administration. It is based on the highly regarded and useful Human Genome Project. Why do it? Like the world in general, the P. A. world is becoming more diverse and complicated. Hence, few adm...

This book is intended for use in professional courses of study and workshops in fields such as education administration, public administration, sports administration, law enforcement, allied health and social work, human resource management, and other fields in which groups from diverse backgrounds participate as employees, students, or clients. The book is an introduction to a vast and complex subject. Among the possible objectives that ...

This work explores how the generally accepted definition or measure of equality of educational opportunity at the beginning of the twenty-first century differs from what it was in the immediate postwar era. While there have been differing definitions or measures of equality of educational opportunity, there has been a continual call from education critics and education reformers for more and better mathematics, science, and foreign language in...

This work explores how the generally accepted definition or measure of equality of educational opportunity at the beginning of the twenty-first century differs from what it was in the immediate postwar era. While there have been differing definitions or measures of equality of educational opportunity, there has been a continual call from education critics and education reformers for more and better mathematics, science, and foreign language in...

Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment. Nevertheless, assessment professionals have disagreed about the meaning of validity almost from theintroduction of the term as applied to testing about 100 years ago. Over the years, the best andbrightest people in assessment have contributed their thinking to this problem and the fact thatthey have not agreed is testimony to the complexity and importance of validity...

A volume in Science & Engineering Education Sources Series Editor Calvin S. Kalman, Concordia University This book is intended to offer college faculty members the insights of the development of reasoning movement that enlighten physics educators in the late 1970s and led to a variety of college programs directed at improving the reasoning patterns used by college students. While the original materials were directed at physics concepts, ...

A volume in Research in Second Language Learning JoAnn Hammadou Sullivan, Series Editor In 2002, this series was launched with its first volume, Literacy and the Second Language Learner, which contained many noteworthy research studies in the learning and teaching of second language reading. The selection of this theme for the series' entry on the scene demonstrates the importance of the topic of second language reading. Because reading ...

A volume in Research in Second Language LearningJoAnn Hammadou Sullivan, Series EditorIn 2002, this series was launched with its first volume, Literacy and the Second LanguageLearner, which contained many noteworthy research studies in the learning andteaching of second language reading. The selection of this theme for the series' entry onthe scene demonstrates the importance of the topic of second language reading. Becausereading plays a key ...

This book is intended for use in professional courses of study and workshops infields such as education administration, public administration, sportsadministration, law enforcement, allied health and social work, human resourcemanagement, and other fields in which groups from diverse backgroundsparticipate as employees, students, or clients. The book is an introduction to a vastand complex subject. Among the possible objectives that can be pur...

This book is designed for higher education instructors. The focus of the book is to assist all faculty instructors in higher education to better meet the needs of their student populations. It addresses the major issue of higher education teaching today: the need to reach all higher education students using active learning strategies. Higher education today is rapidly changing and faculty members are being presented with new types of stud...

A volume in Science & Engineering Education Sources Series Editor Calvin S. Kalman, Concordia University This book is intended to offer college faculty members the insights of the development of reasoning movement that enlighten physics educators in the late 1970s and led to a variety of college programs directed at improving the reasoning patterns used by college students. While the original materials were directed at physics concepts, ...

What is it? The Public Administration Genome Project (PAGP) is a grand attempt to digitally "map" and then usefully employ the full set of topics, variables, and interrelationships that comprise and involve all of the "genes" that make up public administration. It is based on the highly regarded and useful Human Genome Project. Why do it? Like the world in general, the P. A. world is becoming more diverse and complicated. Hence, few adm...

A volume in Research in Mathematics Education Series Editor Barbara J. Dougherty, Iowa State University The study reported in this volume adds to the growing body of evaluation studies that focus on the use of NSF-funded Standards-based high school mathematics curricula. Most previous evaluations have studied the impact of field-test versions of a curriculum. Since these innovative curricula were so new at the time of many of these studie...

The leadership landscape has begun to shift. Researchers have started to realize that previous conceptualizations of leadership that focus only on the positive aspects of leadership are too narrow and may represent a romantic notion of leadership. A growing body of inquiry has emerged with a focus on the darker side of leadership. Allowing for the possibility that leaders can also do harm, either intentionally or unintentionally, broadens ...

A volume in Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society Series Editor: Curry Stephenson Malott Education has rarely been absent from local and national public discourse. Throughout the history of modern education spanning more than a century, we have as a culture lamented the failures of public schooling, often making such claims based on assumptions instead of any nuanced consideration of the many influences on teaching and ...

A volume in Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society Series Editor: Curry Stephenson Malott Education has rarely been absent from local and national public discourse. Throughout the history of modern education spanning more than a century, we have as a culture lamented the failures of public schooling, often making such claims based on assumptions instead of any nuanced consideration of the many influences on teaching and ...

A volume in both Research in Management Consulting, Series Editor Anthony F. Buono, Bentley University and Contemporary Trends in Organization Development and Change, Series Editors Peter Sorensen, Benedictine University and Therese Yaeger, Benedictine University This volume is a joint publication in the Research in Management Consulting and Contemporary Trends in Organizational Change and Development series. This dual focus reflects the r...

Exemplary Middle Grades Research: Evidence-Based Studies Linking Theory to Practice features research published throughout 2009 in MGRJ that has been identified by our review board as the most useful in terms of assisting educators with making practical applications from evidence-based studies to classroom and school settings. The editorial team is pleased to present these studies under one cover, trusting each will contribute to the exis...

The leadership landscape has begun to shift. Researchers have started to realize that previousconceptualizations of leadership that focus only on the positive aspects of leadership are too narrow and mayrepresent a romantic notion of leadership. A growing body of inquiry has emerged with a focus on the darkerside of leadership. Allowing for the possibility that leaders can also do harm, either intentionally orunintentionally, broadens the scop...