The author of EC 607 585 discusses how parent comments on a survey concerning homework, tests, and grades of their children in regular or special education classes can reflect deeper meanings behind their forced choices. Excerpts from several surveys indicate parents' definitions of homework, the need for communication between parents and…

Reliability methodology needs to evolve as validity has done into an argument supported by theory and empirical evidence. Nowhere is the inadequacy of current methods more visible than in classroom assessment. Reliability arguments would also permit additional methodologies for evidencing reliability in classrooms. It would liberalize methodology…

This manual, written by a classroom practitioner, addresses concerns frequently voiced by beginning teachers. It is designed as a practical approach to what works in the classroom. The chapters focus on the following issues: Classroom Management; Classroom Discipline (student behavior, easy ways to establish control, major issues, calling home,…