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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136579503321

Autore

Bissessar Charmaine

Titolo

Assessing the current state of education in the Caribbean / / Charmaine Bissessar, [editor]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hershey, Pennsylvania : , : Information Science Reference, , [2017]

�2017

ISBN

9781522517016

9781522517009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 366 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Advancess in Educational Marketing, Adminitration, and Leadership (AEMAL) Book Series, , 2326-9030

Disciplina

370.9729

Soggetti

Education - Caribbean Area

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Leadership challenges confronting middle managers at a secondary school in Trinidad / Charmaine Bissessar -- Professionalism among Jamaican educators: principles, practices, and the practitioners' perspectives / Nola Hill-Berry -- New principals' school culture awareness and school change / Rinnelle Lee-Piggott -- Do Jamaican principals' leadership styles correlate to violence in school? / Jerome Miller-Vaz -- High-stakes testing in Saint Lucia: common entrance teachers' perception of the changing face of the eleven plus examination and their role in the partial zoning initiative / Madgerie Jameson-Charles -- Teachers' experiences implementing the continuous assessment component of the secondary entrance assessment at a primary school facing challenging circumstances / Nadia Laptiste-Francis, Elna Carrington-Blaides -- Prevalence estimates of behavior problems in primary schools in Trinidad and Tobago: a baseline inquiry / Elna Carrington-Blaides, Amanda Seunarine Ramoutar -- Teachers' knowledge about asthma and asthma management in inclusive classrooms in Trinidad and Tobago / Elna Carrington-Blaides, Myrna Ransome -- School culture, effectiveness and low SES in Trinidad: a multiple case study diagnosis of an excelling, a mostly effective, and an underperforming primary school / Rinnelle Lee-Piggott -- Up a creek without a paddle: teachers' experiences of



the one-to-one laptop initiative / Sharon Phillip, Madgerie Jameson-Charles, Margaret Cain --

Designing a flipped classroom in a higher/teacher education context in the Caribbean / Jacqueline A. Morris, Ayles-Anne Wilson -- Opening the GATE to improving college students' human and psychological capital through higher education funding / Charmaine Bissessar.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book is a pivotal reference source for the latest research on recent developments and innovations for schools in the Caribbean region, focusing on teacher leadership, learning assessment techniques, and technology uses"--Provided by publisher.