1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457613403321

Titolo

Comparing learning outcomes : international assessment and education policy / / edited by Jay H. Moskowitz & Maria Stephens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-40919-2

1-280-54690-5

0-203-40356-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MoskowitzJay H. <1946->

StephensMaria <1972->

Disciplina

379.1/58

Soggetti

Educational evaluation

Academic achievement - Evaluation

Educational indicators

Education and state

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

Toward education improvement : the future of international assessment / Eugene Owen ... [et al.] -- From comprehension to literacy : thirty years of reading assessment / Dominique Lafontaine -- The assessment of adult literacy : history and prospects / T. Scott Murray -- Cross-curricular competencies : development in a new area of education outcome indicators / Jules L. Peschar -- Assessment of cross-curricular problem-solving competencies / Eckhard Klieme -- Reflections on the use of indicators in policy and practice / Friedrich Plank and Douglas Hodgkinson -- Gender differences in achievement : overview and examples of data use in five countries / compiled by Maria Stephens with contributions from Konrad Krainer ... [et al.] -- Considerations in comparing results from different countries, subjects, and grade levels / Kimmo Leimu -- Moving beyond bivariate indicators : the role of multilevel modelling in international comparisons / Roel J. Bosker and Tom A.B. Snijders -- On the methods used for international assessments of educational competencies / Fabrice Murat and Thierry



Rocher.

Sommario/riassunto

Written by researchers from eleven different countries, these accounts offer clear guidance on conducting different forms of international comparative research and valuable suggestions for new directions in such research.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996214872303316

Autore

Dionysius, of Halicarnassus

Titolo

Critical Essays . Volume II / / Dionysius of Halicarnassus ; Stephen Usher, translator

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 1985

ISBN

0-674-99513-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 pages)

Collana

Loeb classical library ; ; LCL466

Disciplina

488.6421

Soggetti

Greek prose literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS migrated to Rome in 300 B.C., where he lived until his death some time after 8 B.C., writing his Roman Antiquities in twenty books and teaching the art of rhetoric and literary composition to a small group of upper-class Romans. His purpose, both in his own work and in his teaching, was to re-establish the classical Attic standards of purity, invention and taste in order to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary language of the Mediterranean world. The essays in the present volume display the full range of Dionysius' critical expertise. In the treatise On Literary Composition, his finest and most original work, discussion of the effects produced by the arrangement of words involves minute analysis of phonetics and metre in addition to more general aspects of literary aesthetics such as the difference between poetry and prose, and the tripartite classification of the types of arrangement. The other four essays are on a less ambitious scale. The Dinarchus is primarily a study



of authenticity in which Dionysius attempts to identify the genuine speeches of the latest Attic orator from the list of those ascribed to him by the librarians. The three literary letters are all concerned with possible models. In the Letter to Pompeius, Dionysius gives his reasons for criticizing Plato on stylistic and also moral grounds, and appends critiques of Herodotus, whom he greatly admired, and three other historians -- Xenophon, Philistus and Theopompus. Of the two Letters to Ammaeus, the second may be read as an appendix to the Thucydides, but the first concerns literary history, and investigates the question of whether Demosthenes could have learnt his oratorical skills from Aristotle's Rhetoric. Volume I contains the essays On the Ancient Orators, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus, Demosthenes, and Thucydides.