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UNINA9910455914603321 |
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Titolo |
The ambiguity of teaching to the test [[electronic resource] ] : standards, assessment, and educational reform / / edited by William A. Firestone, Lora Frances Monfils, Roberta Y. Schorr |
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Mahwah, NJ, : L. Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2004 |
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1-135-62421-6 |
1-282-32092-0 |
9786612320927 |
1-4106-0994-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FirestoneWilliam A |
MonfilsLora Frances |
SchorrRoberta Y |
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Educational tests and measurements - United States |
Education - Standards - United States |
Mathematics |
Science |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and indexes. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Teaching Mathematics and Science; 3 Teaching to the Test; 4 Pressure and Support; 5 The Principal, Test Preparation, and Educational Reform; 6 The District and Test Preparation; 7 Test Scores and Equity; 8 Conclusion; Appendix A: Methods; Appendix B: Teacher Questionnaire; Appendix C: Principal Interview Guide; Appendix D: Teacher Interview Guide; Appendix E: Interview Coding Scheme; Appendix F: List of Codes for Classroom Observation Data; References; Author Index; Subject Index |
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Testing is one of the most controversial of all state and federal educational policies. The effects of testing are quite ambiguous. The same test may lead to different consequences in different |
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circumstances, and teachers may use very different strategies to prepare students for tests. Although most experts agree that mandatory testing leads to teaching to the test, they disagree about whether it leads to meaningless drill, wasted time, de-professionalizing teachers, and demotivating students, or to more challenging and thoughtful curricula, more engaging teaching, increased student mot |
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UNINA9910779555703321 |
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The fall of the iron curtain and the culture of Europe / / edited by Peter I. Barta |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-135-92048-6 |
0-203-55002-1 |
1-299-46940-X |
1-135-92041-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; ; 44 |
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Post-communism - Europe |
Europe Civilization 21st century |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Foreword / Katalin Bogyay -- New paradigms in changing spaces: an introduction / Peter I. Barta -- The wall has fallen on all of us / Dubravka Ugresic -- Twenty years after the curtain fell: a personal account by an Austrian / Gabriele Matzner-Holzer -- The rediscovery of Central Europe in the 1980s / Catherine Horel -- Gulfs and gaps--Prague and Lisbon--1989 and 2009 / Wolfgang Müller-Funk -- Borders in mind or how to re-invent identities / Rüdiger Görner -- The iron curtain, the wall and performative "Verfremdung" / Annelis Kuhlmann -- The re-emergence of national cultures following independence in the Baltic States / Charles de Chassiron -- Explosions, shifts and backtracking in post-Soviet fiction / Hélène Mélat -- Neither |
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East nor West: polyphony and deterritorialization in contemporary European fiction / Maria Rubins -- The fall of the iron curtain and the new linguistic landscape of East-Central Europe / Michael Moser. |
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The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book examines the new narratives about national, individual and European identities that have emerged in literature, theatre and other cultural media, investigates the impact of the re-unification of the continent on the mental landscape of Western Europe as well as Eastern Europe and Russia, and explores the new borders in th |
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