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High-Stakes Testing in Education: Science and Practice in K-12 Settings
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Bovaird, James A., Ed.; Geisinger, Kurt F., Ed.; Buckendahl, Chad W., Ed. – APA Books, 2011
Educational assessment and, more broadly, educational research in the United States have entered into an era characterized by a dramatic increase in the prevalence and importance of test score use in accountability systems. This volume covers a selection of contemporary issues about testing science and practice that impact the nation's public…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Test Use, Student Placement, Educational Research
Developing Participative and Problem Solving Skills in Secondary and Post Secondary Vocational and Technical Education. Methods, Information and Exercises. Educator's Manual.
Indiana Labor and Management Council, Inc., Indianapolis. – 1987
This manual was developed to acquaint both teachers and administrators of vocational and technical education in Indiana with the principles and methods of fostering better leadership, communication, problem solving, and decision making skills, as well as instituting cooperative models as a strategy for preparing students to enter the world of…
Descriptors: Change, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Decision Making
Developing Systematic Problem-Solving, Communications and Group Process Skills for Secondary and Post-Secondary Educators. Methods, Information and Exercises. Educator's Manual.
Indiana Labor and Management Council, Inc., Indianapolis. – 1989
The purpose of this manual is to acquaint both teachers and administrators of vocational and technical education with the principles and methods of fostering better leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills as well as instituting cooperative models as a strategy for better preparing students to enter the world of work.…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Case Studies, Communication Skills, Decision Making
A Capital Course: Teaching Economics in Vocational Education. A VES Monograph.
McElhinney, Kerry R.; Pershing, James A. – 1989
The lack of economics literacy is a serious problem in the United States. Today, public school students are taught little if any economics and score very poorly on economics literacy tests, with the average test score being 40 percent. This absence of economic understanding hurts the economy in the following ways: (1) economically illiterate…
Descriptors: Basic Business Education, Citizenship Education, Consumer Education, Critical Thinking
Public School Funding and Legislated Policy-Making: A Case Study of the 1985 Indiana General Assembly.
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Williams, Robert O. – 1986
To generate a theoretical model for future interpretation, this study analyzed the 1985 Indiana Legislature concerning educational policymaking in public school funding. Previous research indicates that the classical rational actor model of policymaking inadequately addresses multidimensional pressures at work in state legislatures. A model is…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
The Indiana Guide for the Identification of Gifted/Talented Students.
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. Office of Gifted and Talented Education. – 1990
This comprehensive guide to identification of gifted and talented students in Indiana is intended to aid the 85% of Indiana school districts which provide programs for gifted students. A relative, rather than absolute, standard is proposed for identifying the top 5 to 7 percent of students. Giftedness in the areas of intellectual/academic…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Creativity, Decision Making, Educational Philosophy