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Valuing Students with Impairment International comparisons of practice in educational accountability


Free Download Valuing Students with Impairment: International comparisons of practice in educational accountability By J. Joy Cumming (auth.)
2012 | 95 Pages | ISBN: 9400729340 | PDF | 1 MB
In this book, the author Joy Cumming draws on knowledge of law, assessment and measurement to provide an original analysis of the inclusion of students with impairment in educational accountability assessments in the U.S., England and Australia. Equitable education of students with impairment is worldwide policy. Educational accountability for improvement of educational outcomes is also a worldwide phenomenon. The U.S., England and Australia are well placed economically and politically to pursue best educational practice for students with impairment and well advanced in both provision and educational accountability systems. Examining these three systems enables an analysis of possible optimal practices to guide other countries. The book identifies three models of impairment in place in legislation, policy and enacted practice for educational accountability with students with impairment. Intentions of legislation and policy reflect a social model of impairment-while an individual has an impairment, social practice creates the barrier that leads to a disability. In implementation, legislation and policy rely on a medical model of disability-categorizing disability in medical or specialist terms. In educational accountability practices, it is argued in this book, a third model of disability is created-a psychometric model, with impairment constructed through overemphasis on standardization of assessment processes. Eight explicit and implicit assumptions that underpin the ways students with impairment are valued in educational accountability are identified and discussed. Three recommendations are made to promote equitable inclusive educational accountability practices for students with impairment, to inform future policy and practice in all countries.

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Valuing Labour in Greco-roman Antiquity


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English | ISBN: 9004694838 | 2024 | 440 pages | PDF | 95 MB
A reevaluation of ancient people’s attitudes to labor. From Plato’s ideas about the meaning of work to Roman scupltors’ commemoration of their labors, this volume addresses both philosophical and working people’s own understanding of what it meant to work in the ancient world.

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Valuing Intellectual Property in Japan, Britain and the United States


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English | 2004 | ISBN: 0415341124, 0415654750 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 1.1 mb
As over half the assets of many major companies are now intangible assets, there is an increasing need to assess more accurately the value of intellectual property (IP) from a wider interdisciplinary perspective. Re-evaluating risk and understanding the true value of intellectual property is a major problem, particularly important for business practitioners, including business analysts and investors, venture capitalists, accountants, insurance experts, intellectual property lawyers and also for those who hold intellectual property assets, such as media, publishing and pharmaceutical companies, and universities and other research bodies. Written by the foremost authorities in the field from Britain, Japan and the US, this book considers the latest developments and puts forward much new thinking. The book includes thorough coverage of developments in Japan, which is reviewing the value of IP at a much quicker pace than any other country and is registering ever-increasing numbers of patents in the course of inventing its way out of economic inertia.

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Valuing Assessment in Science Education Pedagogy, Curriculum, Policy


Free Download Valuing Assessment in Science Education: Pedagogy, Curriculum, Policy By Deborah Corrigan, Cathy Buntting (auth.), Deborah Corrigan, Richard Gunstone, Alister Jones (eds.)
2013 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 940076667X | PDF | 4 MB
Assessment is a fundamental issue in research in science education, in curriculum development and implementation in science education as well as in science teaching and learning.This book takes a broad and deep view of research involving assessment in science education, across contexts and cultures (from whole countries to individual classrooms) and across forms and purposes (from assessment in the service of student learning to policy implications of system wide assessment). It examines the relationships between assessment, measurement and evaluation; explores assessment philosophies and practices in relation to curriculum and scientific literacy/learning; and details the relationships between assessment and science education policy. The third in a series, Valuing Assessment in Science Education has chapters from a range of international scholars from across the globe and staff from Monash University, King’s College London and University of Waikato. The two previous books in the series examined research relevant to the re-emergence of values in science education and teaching across the spectrum of science education as well as across cultural contexts through the professional knowledge of science teaching. This third book now moves to examine different aspects of generating understanding about what science is learnt, how it is learnt, and how it is valued.Valuing Assessment in Science Education will appeal to all those with some engagement with and/or use of research in science education, including research students, academics, curriculum development agencies, assessment authorities, and policy makers. It will also be of interest to all classroom science teachers who seek to keep abreast of the latest research and development and thinking in their area of professional concern.

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