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Héctor Ruiz Martín – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2024
The international bestseller "How Do We Learn?" decodes years of cognitive science research into actionable strategies for K-12 teachers, curricula designers, and administrators. You'll discover how classic and emerging findings can transform pedagogy by pointing at practices that take advantage of the innate structures of the human…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Learning Processes, Scientific Principles
Karen Nickel; Sarah Strauss; Megan Budke – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2024
"Learner Feedback for Language Growth: A Guidebook for Evaluating Learner Work Through Performance Domains and Indicators" gives you concrete examples of the type of feedback that empowers your learners, making them eager to learn more and continue their growth in the language. Going far beyond simply training teachers to rate language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
Christopher Harris; Joe Krajcik; James Pellegrino – NSTA Press, 2024
Imagine handing out assessments that spark enthusiasm rather than dread. In six easy-to-follow steps, this book empowers science teachers to create tasks that guide students to use their knowledge, not just memorize facts. The NGSA design process transforms assessments into valuable classroom tools that teachers can use to chart how students'…
Descriptors: Standards, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Teaching Guides
Marian Small – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2025
This extensively updated teaching resource provides over 100 engaging, full-color visuals with explanations of how they can be used to stimulate mathematics learning, to explain mathematical concepts, and to assess students' mathematical understanding in grades K-8. Readers are provided with a strong mathematical background, downloadable copies of…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Kindergarten
Dueck, Myron – Educational Leadership, 2020
For students to feel empowered in their learning, they must understand the language, purpose, and goals of assessment. Dueck argues that students need to understand what they are supposed to be learning and determine whether they actually learned it. Clear objectives and cooperative assessments can help with these objectives.
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Student Evaluation, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods
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Beckie Bray Rankin; Nikki Prasad – NECTFL Review, 2024
Motivating students towards language learning includes embedding meaningful themes, communicative tasks, and authentic assessments. When voice and choice are held as essential qualities of the task, students invest in the resources to make meaning and express their own thoughts, thus moving us away from traditional assessments that emphasize…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Performance Based Assessment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
McKenna, Jason – Solution Tree, 2023
Author and educator Jason McKenna describes how teaching STEM education in his elementary school changed his classroom and his life, improving his students' and his own approaches to problem solving, collaboration, and general motivation to learn. Offering examples, tried and tested classroom projects, and collaborative strategies, this innovative…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Problem Solving, Vignettes, Kindergarten
Townsley, Matt; Wear, Nathan L. – Solution Tree, 2020
Maximize learning by making grades more meaningful and motivating to students. With the support of this practical guide, professional learning communities (PLCs) will discover a clear road map for implementing a standards-based grading system at the secondary level. The authors provide all of the actionable ideas and tools needed to not only…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Grading, Communities of Practice, Secondary School Students
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Sharakhimov, Shoaziz; Nurmukhamedov, Ulugbek – English Teaching Forum, 2021
Vocabulary learning is an incremental process. Vocabulary knowledge, especially for second-language learners, may develop across a lifetime. Teachers with experience in providing feedback on their students' vocabulary use in writing or speech might have noticed that it is sometimes difficult to pinpoint one aspect of word knowledge. The reason is…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Nash, Ron – Corwin, 2019
Preparing students for a world that did not exist when they were students themselves can be challenging for many teachers. Engaging students, particularly disinterested ones, in the learning process is no easy task, especially when easy access to information is at an all-time high. How then do educators simultaneously ensure knowledge acquisition…
Descriptors: Interaction, Learning Processes, Communication Skills, Classroom Techniques
McCartney, Kieran – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2021
Now that remote education has become mainstream, how can we best use mobile technology to promote learning? How can we personalise our assessment of learning remotely? This book explores these questions and more, considering strategies for using mobile devices for more personalised teaching. The proliferation of mobile technology provides a unique…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods
Tabor, Pamela D.; Dibley, Dawn; Hackenberg, Amy J.; Norton, Anderson – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2020
"Numeracy for All Learners" is a wide-ranging overview of how Math Recovery® theory, pedagogy, and tools can be applied meaningfully to special education to support learners with a wide range of educational needs. It builds on the first six books in the Math Recovery series and presents knowledge, resources, and examples for teachers…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Stefanie Frisch, Editor; Karen Glaser, Editor – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2025
This volume presents state-of-the-art research in early foreign language (L2) education in instructed contexts with a special focus on primary school (ages 5-12). Over the past two decades, early language teaching has become an important factor in both academic inquiry and education policy. Studies have attested to the value of early L2 learning…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students, Trend Analysis
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Littrell-Baez, Megan K.; Friend, Angela; Caccamise, Donna; Okochi, Christine – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2015
Classroom tests have been traditionally used to assess student growth and content mastery. However, a wealth of research in cognitive and educational psychology has demonstrated that retrieval practice (testing) as a form of low-stakes, rather than traditional high-stakes testing, can also be used as an effective pedagogical tool, improving…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Course Content, Formative Evaluation, Learning Processes
Furby, Lindy; Catlow, Jilly – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2016
"Learning Tracks" is an assessment tool to support the planning and assessment of learning for children and young people with severe and complex learning disabilities (SCLD). It was designed by Lindy Furby and Jilly Catlow while teaching at St Crispin's School for children and young people with severe and complex learning disabilities.…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Learning Disabilities, Young Children
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