1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454543303321

Titolo

Linking industry and ecology [[electronic resource] ] : a question of design / / edited by Ray Côté, James Tansey and Ann Dale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, 2006

ISBN

1-282-74141-1

9786612741418

0-7748-5721-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Sustainability and the environment

Altri autori (Persone)

CôtéRaymond P

DaleAnn <1948->

TanseyJames <1972->

Disciplina

658.4/083/0971

Soggetti

Industrial ecology - Canada

Materials management - Canada

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; Figures and Tables; Part 1: Introduction; Part 2: Design and Ecology; Part 3: Industrial Ecology and Environmental and Business Management; Part 4: Learning from Experience; Part 5: Conclusions; Index; 1 Linking Industry and Ecology in Canada: A Question of Design; 2 Industrial Ecology as Ecological Design: Opportunities for Re(dis)covery; 3 Redesign as Deep Industrial Ecology: Lessons from Ecological Agriculture and Social Ecology; 4 Industry in the City: From Industrial Ghettos to Eco-Parks

5 Reworking Canadian Landscape and Urban Form through Responsive Urban Design: Healthy Housing and Other Lessons6 Cleaner Production and Eco-Efficiency: Charting a Course for Sustainability; 7 From Clusters and Networks to Islands of Sustainability; 8 From Advanced Eco-Efficiency to Systemic Sustainability: What Leading Companies Are Doing and What Assistance and Pressure They Need from Governments and Other Players; 9 Mining, Minerals, and Sustainability; 10 Between Beckett's Trousers and Ecotopia: The Future of Industrial Ecology

11 Applied Industrial Ecology: Blue Box Recycling Lessons Learned and



Implications for Canada's Greenhouse Gas Strategy12 Clustering for Sustainability: The Alberta Experience; 13 From Waste Management to Industrial Ecology; 14 Opportunity or Illusion: The Vexed Promise of Industrial Ecology; Contributors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449952903321

Titolo

Defending standardized testing [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard P. Phelps

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005

ISBN

1-4106-1259-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PhelpsRichard P

Disciplina

371.26/2

Soggetti

Achievement tests - United States

Education - Standards - United States

Educational accountability - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction and Overview; 1 Persistently Positive: Forty Years of Public Opinion on Standardized Testing; 2 High-Stakes Testing: Contexts, Characteristics, Critiques, and Consequences; 3 The Rich, Robust Research Literature on Testing's Achievement Benefits; 4 Some Misconceptions About Large-Scale Educational Assessments; 5 The Most Frequently Unasked Questions About Testing; 6 Must High Stakes Mean Low Quality? Some Testing Program Implementation Issues; 7 Whose Rules? The Relation Between the ""Rules"" and ""Law"" of Testing

8 Teaching For the Test: How and Why Test Preparation is Appropriate9 Doesn't Everybody Know That 70% is Passing?; 10 The Testing Industry, Ethnic Minorities, and Individuals With Disabilities; 11 A School Accountability Case Study: California API Awards and the Orange County Register Margin of Error Folly; 12 Leave No Standardized Test Behind; Appendix A: Polls and Surveys That Have Included Items About



Standardized Testing: 1954 to Present; Appendix B: Some Studies Revealing Testing Achievement Benefits, by Methodology Type; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The education reform movement of the past two decades has focused on raising academic standards. Some standards advocates attach a testing mechanism to gauge the extent to which high standards are actually accomplished, whereas some critics accuse the push for standards and testing of impeding reform and perpetuating inequality. At the same time, the testing profession has produced advances in the format, accuracy, dependability, and utility of tests. Never before has obtaining such an abundance of accurate and useful information about student learning been possible. Meanwhile, the American pu