Author: Burt ThiessenPublisher: [Regina] : Saskatchewan Learning
ISBN: 9781894743808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Calculus 30 : a Curriculum Guide for the Secondary Level
Author: Burt ThiessenPublisher: [Regina] : Saskatchewan Learning
ISBN: 9781894743808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Grade Inflation
Author: Valen E. JohnsonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387001255
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Grade inflation runs rampant at most colleges and universities, but faculty and administrators are seemingly unwilling to face the problem. This book explains why, exposing many of the misconceptions surrounding college grading. Based on historical research and the results of a yearlong, on-line course evaluation experiment conducted at Duke University during the 1998-1999 academic year, the effects of student grading on various educational processes, and their subsequent impact on student and faculty behavior, is examined. Principal conclusions of this investigation are that instructors' grading practices have a significant influence on end-of-course teaching evaluations, and that student expectations of grading practices play an important role in the courses that students decide to take. The latter effect has a serious impact on course enrollments in the natural sciences and mathematics, while the combination of both mean that faculty have an incentive to award high grades, and students have an incentive to choose courses with faculty who do. Grade inflation is the natural consequence of this incentive system. Material contained in this book is essential reading for anyone involved in efforts to reform our postsecondary educational system, or for those who simply wish to survive and prosper in it. Valen Johnson is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan. Prior to accepting an appointment in Ann Arbor, he was a Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University, where data for this book was collected. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Learning and Understanding
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309074401
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
This book takes a fresh look at programs for advanced studies for high school students in the United States, with a particular focus on the Advanced Placement and the International Baccalaureate programs, and asks how advanced studies can be significantly improved in general. It also examines two of the core issues surrounding these programs: they can have a profound impact on other components of the education system and participation in the programs has become key to admission at selective institutions of higher education. By looking at what could enhance the quality of high school advanced study programs as well as what precedes and comes after these programs, this report provides teachers, parents, curriculum developers, administrators, college science and mathematics faculty, and the educational research community with a detailed assessment that can be used to guide change within advanced study programs.
State Curriculum Guides for Science, Mathematics, and Modern Foreign Languages, a Bibliography
Author: State Curriculum Guides for Science, Mathematics, and Modern Foreign Languages
Author: Elizabeth Anne PutnamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Teaching and Learning of Calculus
Author: David BressoudPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319329758
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This survey focuses on the main trends in the field of calculus education. Despite their variety, the findings reveal a cornerstone issue that is strongly linked to the formalism of calculus concepts and to the difficulties it generates in the learning and teaching process. As a complement to the main text, an extended bibliography with some of the most important references on this topic is included. Since the diversity of the research in the field makes it difficult to produce an exhaustive state-of-the-art summary, the authors discuss recent developments that go beyond this survey and put forward new research questions.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Independent Offices Appropriations for 1965
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Independent OfficesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1782
Book Description