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Book SynopsisA large majority of secondary school students fail to reach proficiency in math and science, and many are taught by teachers lacking adequate subject matter knowledge. When compared to other nations, the math and science achievement of U.S. pupils and the rate of STEM degree attainment appear inconsistent with a nation considered the world leader in scientific innovation. In a recent international assessment of 15-year old students, the U.S. ranked 28th in math literacy and 24th in science literacy. Moreover, the U.S. ranks 20th among all nations in the proportion of 24-year olds who earn degrees in natural science or engineering. This book provides background and context to understand the legislative developments in STEM and examines the federal role in promoting STEM education and policy.

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Book SynopsisThe Higher Education Act of 1965 authorizes a broad array of federal student aid programs that assist students and their families with paying for or financing the cost of obtaining a post-secondary education. These federal student aid programs are authorized under Title IV of the HEA. Institutions that participate in one or more Title IV programs, or that seek to begin participating in these programs, are subject to a wide range of requirements under the act to report or disclose information to the Secretary of Education, to students, to the public, or to other entities. This book explores the requests by Members of Congress for an in-depth examination of the reporting and disclosure requirements applicable to institutions of higher education (IHEs) that participate in Title IV federal student aid programs.

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Book SynopsisThe challenge of access to higher education has been a policy area of great concern to the Obama administration and the President has consistently stressed the importance of education beyond high school. The Vice President''s Middle Class Task Force has stressed the importance of higher education in leading to higher earnings and greater economic mobility, and therefore, its role as a determinant of one of the most important aspirations of families across America, if not the globe: the ability of our children to realise their full potential. In this book, the pathway to higher education, scanning existing research for evidence of any barriers that block families and their children from achieving their education goals, is examined.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses core recommendations by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences -- an umbrella organisation consisting of sixteen professional societies in the United States-regarding the mathematical preparation of the teachers. According to the Board, the concept of a capstone course in a mathematics education program includes teachers'' learning to use commonly available educational software with the goal to reach a certain depth of the mathematics curriculum through appropriately designed computational experiments. In turn, the notion of experiment in the teaching of mathematics sets up a path toward enhancing the "E" component of the teachers'' literacy in the STEM disciplines. This book discusses experiences in teaching a computer-enhanced capstone course for prospective teachers of high school mathematics.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an overview of the main parameters of school bullying. Emphasis is put on the definition of bullying, the extent of bullying, the stability of the bully and victim roles, ways of coping with bullying, the forms bullying can take, the characteristics of bullies, the characteristics of victims, age differences, as well as other measurements.

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Book SynopsisReforming medical education will be a key component in transforming the nation''s health care delivery system from one that historically has focused on care for acute illness, at the expense of chronic condition management, co-ordination of care across settings and disease prevention, to one that values patient-centred care, quality improvement and resource conservation. This new and important book examines the challenging issues in today''s graduate medical education.

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Book SynopsisTeaching Speech to English Language Learners: A Theoretical and Practical Focus provides very specific teaching recommendations aimed at improving the oral communication skills of adult (high school age and beyond) English language learners. The teaching suggestions are proposed in a framework that highlights the link between research/theory (a theoretical focus) and pedagogy (a practical focus). This book should be of interest to those teaching speech courses to English language learners, to those teaching more broad-based English as a second language (ESL) courses with a speech component, to those planning to teach English language learners, and to a range of applied linguists. While the book includes topics typically covered in college speech courses (e.g., public speaking and group communication), the material is addressed in a way that makes it applicable to a wider range of students (i.e., adult English language learners, in general).

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Book SynopsisBook & DVD. Based on a "whole child" model, the Head Start program provides comprehensive services that include pre-school education, medical, dental and mental health care, as well as nutrition services and efforts to help parents foster their child''s development. Head Start services are designed to be responsive to each child''s and family''s ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage. This book explores the background and issues regarding the Head Start program, with a discussion on undercover testing finding fraud and abuse at selected Head Start centres.

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Book SynopsisMalcolm Shepherd Knowles was a key writer and theorist in the field of adult education in the United States. He died in 1997 and left a large legacy of books and journal articles behind. This book examines Knowles'' principal works, graphically depicts his framework in a series of diagrammatic representations, identifies the major elements of thought and plots the emergence of new ideas in the sequence in which they occurred. It constructs an overall narrative history of the development of thinking in Knowles'' writings, indicates the major phases through which that thinking passed and identifies the writings that belong within each phase.

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Book SynopsisThis book is written by educators who have practical teaching experience, a scholarly appreciation of technology and a capability for concise research exposition. The result is a volume that provides a highly readable synopsis of current educational innovations. The twenty-two chapters are arranged in six sections: technology, online teaching and learning, special education, higher education, learning and instruction and organisation culture. This book is ideal for the practising teachers or education fellows wishing to grasp the essence of modern research on teaching.

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Book SynopsisToday, people know what is happening around them through radio, television, newspapers and the like. With the advance of the telecommunication technology, people are now also familiar with the use of personal computers, the Internet and so on. The mass media is now regarded as essential for keeping people up to date with the world around them. In view of this, the innovation of a new curriculum, media education or the study of the mass media, has been recommended. This book examines the prevailing perspectives regarding media education in different countries around the world and what kinds of research is being conducted in the field of media education.

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Book SynopsisThroughout recent decades, higher education has played a steadily greater role in national development, contributing towards heightened competitiveness and turning knowledge into a factor of differentiation in both socio-economic and market contexts. This book explores the state of crisis in the global higher education realm and includes topics such as the demand and supply of higher education which is impacting unemployment; the practice of institutional integration; training teachers for vocational and technical education and the fragmentation of nursing education.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents topical research in the study of teaching strategies. Topics discussed in this compilation include the role of analogical and structural models to improve the teaching strategies of physics comprehension; computer games as a technological tool in the education setting; classroom questioning to enhance learning; anti-bias curriculums; the effective use of informational technologies meant for lifelong learning tools; narrative teaching strategies and intercultural competencies through mediated learning.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents research on the subject of early arithmetic conducted in a Swedish compulsory school. The research is based on the epistemology of radical constructivism and the methodology "multiple interviews" and "the process of supervision". The problem was investigated by comparing children''s early arithmetical knowledge-building in the compulsory school (CS), in CS''s remedial teaching (REM) and in the school for intellectually disabled (SID). In an intervention study, twenty children of various ages in SID and REM participated, as well as their teachers. The aim was to adjust the teaching content to harmonize with the children''s ways of operating and longitudinally investigate the children''s progress, as well as to facilitate teachers'' model-building of their children''s various ways of operating and needs for learning.

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Book SynopsisThe success of the United States in the 21st century, its wealth and welfare, will depend on the ideas and skills of its population. As the world becomes increasingly technological, the value of these national assets will be determined in no small measure by the effectiveness of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in the United States. STEM education will determine whether the United States will remain a leader among nations and whether we will be able to solve immense challenges in such areas as energy, health, environmental protection, and national security. This book explores a strategy for improving K-12 STEM education that responds to the tremendous challenges and historic opportunities facing the Nation.

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Book SynopsisAt this time in our nation''s history, the establishment of a solid foundation upon which to build a student''s educational framework and basic skills is imperative. Teachers, parents, administrators and policy makers are all focusing on test scores, standardised measurement of growth, annual yearly progress and "value added" issues. While education begins in the home, it is the early educational environment in which children are exposed to licensed certified professionals whose charge is to provide students with exposure to the basics and to identify those with developmental needs, and assist in the intervention process. This book provides an overview of the field of early childhood education as well as ancillary issues that permeate the field.

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Book SynopsisThe history of ICET dates back to 1953. Since that time, a common theme linking its members'' initiatives has been the promotion of universal quality education through transnational co-operation for educational development programs. These programs include issues of interest to scholars, administrators, practitioners from universities, colleges, departments and institutes of education as well as members of government ministries and business leaders. The resulting collective expertise and geographical reach of the current membership now provides a rich and varied forum for the development of national, regional and transnational research networks. This book explores these aims and gives insight into the wide scope of global education.

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Book SynopsisInnovation and Creativity in ELT Methodology comprises a collection of pedagogical articles, giving language teachers a fascinating insight into the way different teaching approaches, methods, procedures and techniques can be explored in the language classroom. Written by established and emerging scholars, this edited volume covers current key issues in teaching, including four macro language skills like listening, speaking, reading and writing; three micro language skills such as pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, as well as English through content areas and technology -- CALL. This is a valuable resource book for language teachers, language materials developers, pre-service language teachers, and language teacher educators who would like to explore and creatively craft their own teaching practices to help language learners become competent users of the target language.

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Book SynopsisThis series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Topics discussed include undergraduate public health education; evaluation and accreditation in higher education; reading goals and text relevance for assigned course readings; globalised classrooms; the effects of students performance and family backgrounds towards motivation in the classroom and reforms in technology integration.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the management, effectiveness and challenges of classroom study. Topics discussed include mathematics and the interactive classroom; the effects of the classroom script and gender composition in the classroom; moral stances and discursive power in classroom discourse; teacher-child interaction training; urban classroom pedagogy; the racist teacher; classroom acoustics and the classroom social climate.

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Book SynopsisEducation is the key to America''s economic growth and prosperity and to our ability to compete in the global economy. It is the path to higher earning power for Americans and is necessary for our democracy to work. It fosters the cross-border, cross-cultural collaboration required to solve the most challenging problems of our time. The National Education Technology Plan 2010 calls for revolutionary transformation. Specifically, we must embrace innovation and technology which is at the core of virtually every aspect of our daily lives and work. This book explores the National Education Technology Plan which presents a model of learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure and productivity.

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Book SynopsisCharter schools, first launched in the 1990s, are an important and growing component of the public school system in the United States. More than 5,000 charter schools serve over 1.5 million students (approximately 3% of all public school students, in 40 states). There remains considerable debate as to whether, how, and under what circumstances charter schools improve the outcomes of students who attend them. This book summarises the results of a new study: the Evaluation of Charter School Impacts, a large-scale randomised trial of the effectiveness of charter schools funded by the Institute of Education Sciences and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research and its partners.

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Book SynopsisThe District of Columbia School Choice Incentive Act of 2003, passed by Congress in January 2004, established the first federally funded, private school voucher program in the United States. The purpose of the new scholarship program was to provide low-income parents, particularly those whose children attend schools identified for improvement or corrective action with "expanded opportunities to attend higher performing schools in the District of Columbia". Over 8,400 students have applied for what is now called the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), and rigorous evaluation of the Program, mandated by Congress, has been underway. This book describes the impacts of the Program at least four years after families who applied and were given the option to move from a public school to a participating private school of their choice.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents significant results from around the globe in selected areas of research related to evidence-based education, especially in Hong Kong (SAR), New Zealand, China, Korea and America. Specifically, recent enthusiasm for ''evidence-based'' practice in education has brought a new sense of development in the aspects of teaching and learning in primary and secondary schooling. This volume attempts to shed light on the proceedings of this development regarding hierarchical school system, school-based management, effective pedagogies, outdoor educational experience and teacher attitudes in these different areas.

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Book SynopsisThis series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Topics discussed include paradigm shifts in leadership for learning; Japan''s higher education adjustment to the modern contemporary world; nursing education; leading small rural schools; educational computing in the classrooms; EU and China academic relations, as well as equity and quality in higher education

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Book SynopsisThis book is directed mainly at teachers of engineering thermodynamics, but it can also be very useful for the student who wants to read a comprehensive work on the subject alone. The structure of the information contained in the book has been made explicit to the reader, so that he or she can choose what to read and what to leave out with a safe criterion. At the beginning of each chapter, the reader can find one or two types of help. A chapter index can help when forming a global vision of the chapter. We have also considered it useful to insert some comments in the text, generally on conceptual issues that students usually don''t think about at all, but that may be of interest for the teacher, as well as some hints about what kind of things students usually find hard to understand based on our own classroom experiences.

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Book SynopsisWhy student attitudes? The answers vary because this field gives the reader an excellent example of the conceptual, methodological and applied benefits, as well as issues surrounding the general concept of attitudes'', or maybe because we''re all students at certain points in our lives and therefore this issue pertains to us all. Whatever the reason, you, the reader, have picked this volume up and the subjects, findings and questions raised herein are going to be relevant to you and others around you. This book was planned with diversity in mind: diverse authors from all corners of the world presenting various fields of expertise; diverse target populations and students in elementary schools, college students or military personnel in training, as well as many other student bodies. The diversity of this book reflects the complexity and variety found in the field itself, as well as purposely designed to help the reader find their point of interest.

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Book SynopsisThis two-volume book series on on-line education consists of a current collection of research contributed by authors from different nations in different disciplines. The book series takes a global perspective, examining the skills needed for on-line education and looking to see how people around the world view the concepts and components that make up an on-line learning environment. Most of the collections are research-based practices that have been done through the years. Volume One first discusses the many challenges presented in transition to the on-line education environment, explains needed supports and paradigm changes, and offers appropriate approaches for meeting these challenges; then it portrays new networking tools for an interactive, hands-on learning environment, describes users'' preferences in using some networking tools for learning, and demonstrates innovative ways to design and implement virtual laboratories.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the relevant literature, mastering Rasch measurement and the Rasch Unidimensional Measurement Models (RUMM) computer program with its relevant statistics and their applications in the field of education.

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Book SynopsisRasch models are used for analysing data from assessments to measure things such as abilities, attitudes, and personality traits. For example, they may be used to estimate a student''s reading ability from answers to questions on a reading assessment, or the extremity of a person''s attitude to capital punishment from responses on a questionnaire. Rasch models are particularly used in psychometrics, the field concerned with the theory and technique of psychological and educational measurement.

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Book SynopsisThe rapidly-evolving world of the 21st century faces tremendous challenges of economic, ecological, social, cultural and global dimensions to be handled by citizens with an increasing self-consciousness. Naming just some of the challenges provides immediate insight into their magnitude, nature and diversity: reduce and prevent international instability, reduce over exploitation of earth resources, respond to the greenhouse threat, meet the needs of a rapidly growing global population, create a fairer distribution of wealth, guide rural and urban development. These are just some of the interrelated and interacting challenges of developing sustainably in a highly dynamic and interconnected world. They are characterised by the need for long-term approaches, the involvement of many stakeholders with conflicting interests and the fact that their approach demands parallel routes on different scales.

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews research relating to higher education teaching, internationalisation and student issues in higher education. Some of the topics discussed include connecting higher education and the labour market; the impact of different entry characteristics and learning styles on academic achievement in first-year higher education students; college adjustment among White and Hispanic students; moving from academia to work life; Japan''s internationalisation and discriminatory attitudes; academic resilience among poor minority college students; student''s intercultural learning experiences at Saharawi refugee camps; e-learning and its relationship with internationalisation; early career academics focus on research and publishing and others.

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Book SynopsisThis series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. This series attempts to shed light on successes wherever they may occur in the hope that many wheels need not be reinvented again and again. This book explores the advances in technological areas that support the implementation of an automatic speech to sign language translation system and sign language animation using thermal image processing.

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Book SynopsisRapid globalisation has called for a profound change in educational methodology, as well as the innovative use of new educational technology. Grounded in sound pedagogy, supported by solid research methodology, and with inter-/multi-discipline background, this book provides an integrated view on this paradigm shift for education. The emphasis of this book is placed on the research on innovative tools and approaches, and development of new learning environments to create new knowledge that could potentially transform teaching and learning.

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Book SynopsisThe advanced learning internet technologies indicated a need for methodologies, tools and pedagogues that support the introduction of synchronous e-learning applications and especially Interactive Videoconferencing (IVC) into the whole learning environment. This book presents the theoretical background and the methodology that have been developed, to implement a pedagogical model for IVC instruction. The proposed pedagogical model constitutes the results experienced from an IVC project in the University of Crete during the last seven years, under the title ''ODUSSEAS'', which took place between eight hundred students and thirty teachers in eighteen elementary schools in Greece and Cyprus.

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Book SynopsisWriting is a complex and cognitively demanding activity. To be successful, writers need an understanding of the components of a quality test as well as knowledge of writing strategies that can be used to shape and organise the writing process. This book discusses academic writing as a complex task which involves a variety of cognitive and metacognitive activities; a model for teaching writing strategies and the sociocultural processes of written communication; rubric-referenced self-assessment and the quality of elementary and middle-school students'' writing and self-efficacy and others.

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Book SynopsisThis series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. The field of education is consistently on the top of priority lists of every country in the world, yet few educators are aware of the progress elsewhere. Many techniques, programs and methods are directly applicable across borders. This series attempts to shed light on successes wherever they may occur in the hope that many wheels need not be reinvented again and again.

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Book SynopsisThe National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) arts education framework is founded on a vision of a society that believes the arts are essential to every child''s complete development. Throughout their lives, they will draw from artistic experience and knowledge as a means of understanding what happens both inside and outside their own skin, just as they use mathematical, scientific, and other frameworks for understanding. This book examines the results of the 2008 National Assessment of Education Progress in the arts, which was given to a nationally representative sample of 7,900 eighth grade public and private school students.

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Book SynopsisDistance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy, technology, and instructional system designs that aim to deliver education to students who are not physically "on site" in a traditional classroom or campus. This book presents current research in the field of distance learning including such topics as virtual classrooms in collaborative distance learning; metacognitive knowledge and distance education; using a Web-based e-Learning system (WebELS) to support flexibility and globalisation of higher education in science and technology; and distance education initiatives for people with disabilities.

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