Assessments Education

Executive functioning skills—including focus, organization, stress management, and more―are critical to succeeding in all aspects of your life. Whether you’ve just been diagnosed with ADHD or you’ve lived with it your entire life, you know that developing these skills can be a challenge. Thriving with Adult ADHD offers a toolbox of information, assessments, and evidence-based exercises to help you build this mental skill set and take control of your ADHD.

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his best-selling book, education expert Kim Marshall shows how to break away from the typical and often ineffective evaluation approaches in which principals use infrequent classroom visits or rely on standardized test scores to assess a teacher's performance. Marshall proposes a broader framework for supervision and evaluation that enlists teachers in improving the performance of all students.

This audiobook provides you with all the information you need to pass first time, since it focuses systematically on each of the assessment criteria in the unit. It provides a convenient means of accessing the information needed to complete the unit.

Qualitative Research is the essential guide to understanding, designing, conducting, and presenting a qualitative research study. This fourth edition features new material covering mixed methods, action research, arts-based research, online data sources, and the latest in data analysis, including data analysis software packages as well as narrative and poetic analysis strategies. A new section offers multiple ways of presenting qualitative research findings. The accessible, jargon-free style makes this audiobook ideal for both novice and experienced researchers.

Here at last—and none too soon—is a resource that delivers the research base, tools, and courage to tackle one of the most challenging and emotionally charged conversations in today’s schools: our inconsistent grading practices and the ways they can inadvertently perpetuate the achievement and opportunity gaps among our students. With Grading for Equity, Joe Feldman cuts to the core of the conversation.

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Health Education Systems, Inc. Admission Assessment or HESI A2. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on your test. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters. There are key takeaways following each chapter to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions.

This health assessment book for nursing students helps relieve that pressure and anxiety by providing a no fluff, easy-to-understand, full-of-pictures physical assessment that you can easily learn.

Prepare for your nursing school entrance exam with our ATI TEAS 7 Audio Study Guide expertly crafted by the Davidson's. Designed for aspiring nursing professionals, this audiobook is an essential tool for mastering the ATI Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS), Version 7. Our guide fits seamlessly into your lifestyle, allowing you to optimize your study time whether you’re commuting, exercising, or managing household tasks.

This third volume of The Chaplain Skill Set Series discusses the importance and nuances of the spiritual needs assessment. Chaplain Evans reviews the importance of having intentional conversations regarding spiritual resources individuals many need in times and crisis as well as how to process and make meaning of defining life moments. There are many types of spiritual needs assessments, this book reviews ten most common assessments noted in literature and used in healthcare settings. The reader will quickly see a common pattern noted in the assessments and be able to design their own ...

Chaplaincy is a growing field of public ministry and soul care that engages all faith traditions, cultures and aspects of life. In this revised and expanded Second Edition, Chaplain Keith Evans lays the core fundamentals of chaplaincy in this initial volume of The Chaplain Skill Set Series. Evans covers the need, the theological and theoretical foundations, and recent outcomes for public soul care. The book concludes with practical applications and exercises which will sharpen the ministry skill sets of the new and seasoned chaplain.

Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits. In Who Gets in and Why, journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions game and reveals that teenagers and parents have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a "good college". Hint: It's not all about the sticker on the car window.

If you want to pass the Hesi A2 Test, but don’t have a lot of time for studying keep reading...You are no doubt a busy student with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to read your textbook in preparation for the Hesi Exam. However, the truth is that the Hesi exam is a challenging test, and you are given a maximum of three tries in 12 months to complete the test. This edition is a practice questions edition. It reviews all essential concepts found on the exam, from all categories of the test.

Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities. Coupling the latest social science with firsthand experience as a crime-fighter, Abt proposes a relentless focus on violence itself.

In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly a year, Steinberg accompanied admissions officer Ralph Figueroa on a tour to assess and recruit the most promising students in the country. The Gatekeepers follows a diverse group of prospective students as they compete for places in the nation's most elite colleges.

Study for your ASWB social work licensing exam on the go! With this pocket study guide from social work exam coach Jeremy Schwartz, author of Pass the LMSW Exam and LMSW Passing Score, you can review content and practice questions during gaps in your day.

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This book is for education leaders who do not accept that the underachievement of African American, Latino, Indigenous, low income and other vulnerable student groups is inevitable. Where Equity Lives: Eliminating Systemic Inequity in Schools and Districts is the result of 25 years of studying over 300 schools and districts struggling to overturn the longstanding pattern of under achievement of the same demographic groups. This book is a reveal of the five most common systemic inequity traps identified through the Study of Studies that help explain historic achievement patterns.

Standards are the foundation of our educational systems today. Fairness, rigor, and high achievement for all students are the focus of standards-based schools. Yet the standards movement means nothing if it does not improve student achievement in the classroom. In this revised edition, Dr. Reeves provides step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement standards-based performance assessment to make improved teaching and learning a reality in the classroom.

Students and learners of all ages continually face the challenges of gaining direction, making decisions, and building self-confidence. Fortunately, the keys to successfully meeting these challenges - your own natural talents - already exist within you. Through these talents, you will produce your greatest achievements.

Trevor MacKenzie returns with another deep dive into inquiry as he examines the role of assessment in education through the lens of co-designing and co-constructing with students. In Inquiry Mindset: Assessment Edition, MacKenzie outlines a series of beliefs, values, and frameworks that allow all teachers to scaffold towards an assessment reality that is infused with student voice, understanding, and autonomy.