Author: Susan Mackey Collins
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 142062573X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Capture the adventure students feel as they advance to a new grade level, encounter new concepts, and master new skills. These motivating activities cover language arts, math, science, and social studies. A bonus section at the end of each book provides a jump start to the next grade level, with a selection of language arts and math activities.
Third Grade Success
Author: Susan Mackey Collins
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 142062573X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Capture the adventure students feel as they advance to a new grade level, encounter new concepts, and master new skills. These motivating activities cover language arts, math, science, and social studies. A bonus section at the end of each book provides a jump start to the next grade level, with a selection of language arts and math activities.
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 142062573X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Capture the adventure students feel as they advance to a new grade level, encounter new concepts, and master new skills. These motivating activities cover language arts, math, science, and social studies. A bonus section at the end of each book provides a jump start to the next grade level, with a selection of language arts and math activities.
4th Grade Jumbo Reading Success Workbook
Author: Sylvan Learning
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0375430075
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
3 BOOKS IN 1! Learning at home is as easy as A B C with this supersized workbook that's jam-packed with 320 pages of kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for kids tackling 4th grade reading skills. Perfect for back to school--no matter what that looks like! Good reading skills are essential not only for 4th grade academic success, but also for lifelong learning. This Jumbo Workbook (a $39 value for just $18.99!) brings together 3 of Sylvan Learning's most popular curriculum-based activity books, and includes 320 colorful pages all designed to help your child become fluent with foundational reading concepts like: • prefixes & suffixes • word roots • synonyms & antonyms • homophones • homographs • reading comprehension ... and much more! With vibrant, colorful pages full of games and puzzles, 4th Grade Jumbo Reading Success Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead—and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! *Includes the full text of 4th Grade Spelling Success, 4th Grade Vocabulary Success, and 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Success ***** Why Sylvan Products Work ***** Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0375430075
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
3 BOOKS IN 1! Learning at home is as easy as A B C with this supersized workbook that's jam-packed with 320 pages of kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for kids tackling 4th grade reading skills. Perfect for back to school--no matter what that looks like! Good reading skills are essential not only for 4th grade academic success, but also for lifelong learning. This Jumbo Workbook (a $39 value for just $18.99!) brings together 3 of Sylvan Learning's most popular curriculum-based activity books, and includes 320 colorful pages all designed to help your child become fluent with foundational reading concepts like: • prefixes & suffixes • word roots • synonyms & antonyms • homophones • homographs • reading comprehension ... and much more! With vibrant, colorful pages full of games and puzzles, 4th Grade Jumbo Reading Success Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead—and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! *Includes the full text of 4th Grade Spelling Success, 4th Grade Vocabulary Success, and 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Success ***** Why Sylvan Products Work ***** Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
4th Grade Reading Comprehension Success Workbook
Author: Sylvan Learning
Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing
ISBN: 0375430032
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Learn from home with kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for 4th grade reading success! Good reading skills are essential not only for fourth-grade academic success, but also for lifelong learning. The curriculum-based activities and exercises in this workbook will help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you’ll find inside are: READ BETWEEN THE LINES Do-it-yourself essays on games, camping trips, and more teach kids how to grasp inferences within a story. COMPARE & CONTRAST Diagrams show how to figure out what similar subjects such as "comets or asteroids?" have in common and how to tell them apart. FACT & OPINION Interesting articles help kids back up opinions with facts from the text on topics such as "Should kids have cell phones?" QUESTION BUSTERS Right There and Think-and-Search questions explain how to find the answers to straightforward and not-so-straightforward questions about a story. STORY PLAN Fill-in-the-blank sections aid in building story structure, including setting, main characters, problems, and solutions. Plus! CHECK IT! STRIPS Reinforce concepts and build confidence as kids check their own work. Give your child’s grades and confidence a boost with 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Success. Why Sylvan Learning Products Work Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a Honors Award from the National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. The NAPPA is the nation’ s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources, and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years, and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing
ISBN: 0375430032
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Learn from home with kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for 4th grade reading success! Good reading skills are essential not only for fourth-grade academic success, but also for lifelong learning. The curriculum-based activities and exercises in this workbook will help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you’ll find inside are: READ BETWEEN THE LINES Do-it-yourself essays on games, camping trips, and more teach kids how to grasp inferences within a story. COMPARE & CONTRAST Diagrams show how to figure out what similar subjects such as "comets or asteroids?" have in common and how to tell them apart. FACT & OPINION Interesting articles help kids back up opinions with facts from the text on topics such as "Should kids have cell phones?" QUESTION BUSTERS Right There and Think-and-Search questions explain how to find the answers to straightforward and not-so-straightforward questions about a story. STORY PLAN Fill-in-the-blank sections aid in building story structure, including setting, main characters, problems, and solutions. Plus! CHECK IT! STRIPS Reinforce concepts and build confidence as kids check their own work. Give your child’s grades and confidence a boost with 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Success. Why Sylvan Learning Products Work Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a Honors Award from the National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. The NAPPA is the nation’ s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources, and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years, and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
4th Grade Jumbo Math Success Workbook
Author: Sylvan Learning
Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing
ISBN: 030747920X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
3 BOOKS IN 1! Learning at home is as easy as 1 2 3 with this super-sized workbook that's jam-packed with 320 pages of kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed exercises -- perfect for kids tackling 4th grade math. Building a strong foundation in math is essential as 4th graders prepare to advance to more difficult math concepts. This Jumbo Workbook (a $39 value for just $18.99!) is a compilation of 3 of Sylvan Learning's most popular curriculum-based activity books* and includes 320 colorful pages all designed to help your child become familiar with intermediate math concepts like: • place value • adding & subtracting 5-digit numbers • multi-digit multiplication & division • fractions & decimals • standard & metric measurement • plane & solid shapes • geometry • math in the environment • graphs & data ... and much more! With vibrant, colorful pages full of games and puzzles, 4th Grade Jumbo Math Success Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead—and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! *Includes the full text of 4th Grade Basic Math Success, 4th Grade Math Games & Puzzles, and 4th Grade Math in Action ***** Why Sylvan Products Work ***** Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing
ISBN: 030747920X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
3 BOOKS IN 1! Learning at home is as easy as 1 2 3 with this super-sized workbook that's jam-packed with 320 pages of kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed exercises -- perfect for kids tackling 4th grade math. Building a strong foundation in math is essential as 4th graders prepare to advance to more difficult math concepts. This Jumbo Workbook (a $39 value for just $18.99!) is a compilation of 3 of Sylvan Learning's most popular curriculum-based activity books* and includes 320 colorful pages all designed to help your child become familiar with intermediate math concepts like: • place value • adding & subtracting 5-digit numbers • multi-digit multiplication & division • fractions & decimals • standard & metric measurement • plane & solid shapes • geometry • math in the environment • graphs & data ... and much more! With vibrant, colorful pages full of games and puzzles, 4th Grade Jumbo Math Success Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead—and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! *Includes the full text of 4th Grade Basic Math Success, 4th Grade Math Games & Puzzles, and 4th Grade Math in Action ***** Why Sylvan Products Work ***** Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
Smart Practice Workbook: Fourth Grade
Author: Scholastic Teaching Resources
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780545862561
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Practice makes perfect! This large collection of fun and engaging practice pages is designed to help students master essential skills in reading, writing, vocabulary, math, and more. With more than 300 skill-building practice pages, students are well on their way to succeed in school! Includes ready-to-use flash cards for extra skills practice. For use with Grade 4.
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780545862561
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Practice makes perfect! This large collection of fun and engaging practice pages is designed to help students master essential skills in reading, writing, vocabulary, math, and more. With more than 300 skill-building practice pages, students are well on their way to succeed in school! Includes ready-to-use flash cards for extra skills practice. For use with Grade 4.
Fourth Grade Success
Author: Susan Mackey Collins
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 1420625748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Capture the adventure students feel as they advance to a new grade level, encounter new concepts, and master new skills. These motivating activities cover language arts, math, science, and social studies. A bonus section at the end of each book provides a jump start to the next grade level, with a selection of language arts and math activities.
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 1420625748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Capture the adventure students feel as they advance to a new grade level, encounter new concepts, and master new skills. These motivating activities cover language arts, math, science, and social studies. A bonus section at the end of each book provides a jump start to the next grade level, with a selection of language arts and math activities.
Fourth Grade Geometry Success (Sylvan Workbooks)
Author: Sylvan Learning (Firm)
Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing
ISBN: 0307479293
Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Success in math includes mastery of geometry skills and requires children to make connections between the real world and geometry concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they'll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you'll find inside are: Structures of the World Students circle the shape that closely resembles a familiar structure, such as a pyramid, water tower, or a column on the Parthenon. Around We Go A variety of familiar objects such as a kite, a pool, and a traffic sign provide practice in calculating perimeters. Line Counter Students determine how many lines of symmetry there are in different shapes, numbers, and more. Location, Location, Location Tracy's town is adding a park, a pool, a bookstore, and a gym. Using a map, students label the locations from provided coordinates. Plus! Game Pieces The workbook includes pentomino and tangram pieces for students to cut out and use with games, make patterns, and solve tangram puzzles. Give your child's confidence in math a boost with 4th Grade Geometry Success.
Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing
ISBN: 0307479293
Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Success in math includes mastery of geometry skills and requires children to make connections between the real world and geometry concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help your children catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Best of all, they'll have lots of fun doing it! Some of the great features you'll find inside are: Structures of the World Students circle the shape that closely resembles a familiar structure, such as a pyramid, water tower, or a column on the Parthenon. Around We Go A variety of familiar objects such as a kite, a pool, and a traffic sign provide practice in calculating perimeters. Line Counter Students determine how many lines of symmetry there are in different shapes, numbers, and more. Location, Location, Location Tracy's town is adding a park, a pool, a bookstore, and a gym. Using a map, students label the locations from provided coordinates. Plus! Game Pieces The workbook includes pentomino and tangram pieces for students to cut out and use with games, make patterns, and solve tangram puzzles. Give your child's confidence in math a boost with 4th Grade Geometry Success.
School Success for Children with Special Needs
Author: Amy James
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471748153
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A new book in the Knowledge Essential series, School Success for Children with Special Needs offers parents a guide for understanding and navigating the often-confusing special education system to ensure that your child gets the best education possible. It tells you: How to know if your child has a physical, learning, or emotional disability How the latest changes to the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) effect your child's education How to help formulate your child's Individual Family Services Plan (IFSP) or Individualized Education Program (IEP) Information on the many ways schools and teachers can accommodate for children with disabilities How to assess our child's progress How can you help your child be successful at school and in life by reinforcing basic skills at every age How to plan for transitioning your child to the wider world The kind of paperwork you can expect to encounter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471748153
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A new book in the Knowledge Essential series, School Success for Children with Special Needs offers parents a guide for understanding and navigating the often-confusing special education system to ensure that your child gets the best education possible. It tells you: How to know if your child has a physical, learning, or emotional disability How the latest changes to the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) effect your child's education How to help formulate your child's Individual Family Services Plan (IFSP) or Individualized Education Program (IEP) Information on the many ways schools and teachers can accommodate for children with disabilities How to assess our child's progress How can you help your child be successful at school and in life by reinforcing basic skills at every age How to plan for transitioning your child to the wider world The kind of paperwork you can expect to encounter
4th Grade Jumbo Reading Success Workbook
Author: Sylvan Learning
Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing
ISBN: 0375430075
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
3 BOOKS IN 1! Learning at home is as easy as A B C with this supersized workbook that's jam-packed with 320 pages of kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for kids tackling 4th grade reading skills. Perfect for back to school--no matter what that looks like! Good reading skills are essential not only for 4th grade academic success, but also for lifelong learning. This Jumbo Workbook (a $39 value for just $18.99!) brings together 3 of Sylvan Learning's most popular curriculum-based activity books, and includes 320 colorful pages all designed to help your child become fluent with foundational reading concepts like: • prefixes & suffixes • word roots • synonyms & antonyms • homophones • homographs • reading comprehension ... and much more! With vibrant, colorful pages full of games and puzzles, 4th Grade Jumbo Reading Success Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead—and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! *Includes the full text of 4th Grade Spelling Success, 4th Grade Vocabulary Success, and 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Success ***** Why Sylvan Products Work ***** Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
Publisher: Sylvan Learning Publishing
ISBN: 0375430075
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
3 BOOKS IN 1! Learning at home is as easy as A B C with this supersized workbook that's jam-packed with 320 pages of kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for kids tackling 4th grade reading skills. Perfect for back to school--no matter what that looks like! Good reading skills are essential not only for 4th grade academic success, but also for lifelong learning. This Jumbo Workbook (a $39 value for just $18.99!) brings together 3 of Sylvan Learning's most popular curriculum-based activity books, and includes 320 colorful pages all designed to help your child become fluent with foundational reading concepts like: • prefixes & suffixes • word roots • synonyms & antonyms • homophones • homographs • reading comprehension ... and much more! With vibrant, colorful pages full of games and puzzles, 4th Grade Jumbo Reading Success Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead—and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! *Includes the full text of 4th Grade Spelling Success, 4th Grade Vocabulary Success, and 4th Grade Reading Comprehension Success ***** Why Sylvan Products Work ***** Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.
Success and Failure in Israeli Elementary Education
Author: Abram Minkowich
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412835398
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive evaluation study of elementary education in Israel conducted over several years and completed in 1977. The study concentrates on Jewish schools, but some data are presented from parallel studies in the Arab Schools. A notable feature of the study is its unusually large scope both in size and content. It sampled nearly ten percent of Jewish schools and fifteen percent of Arab schools. The content includes a great variety of areas: cultural origins, home conditions and socialization patterns of pupils, conditions and practices in schools, teachers' and principals' backgrounds and their attitudes toward central issues in education, pupils' personality characteristics and motivations related to school experience, their learning abilities and achievements in five major school subjects. Special emphasis is given to the disadvantaged pupils, and an examination of the problem of equality of educational opportunity. This study's uniqueness lies in a novel approach in the measurement and analysis of scholastic achievements. Like all studies in the "psychometric" tradition, it places pupils in a position related to an advantaged pupil group. But test construction and most data analyses were carried out by the criterion-reference approach combined with a notion of "master learning." This enabled presentation of the absolute achievement level of a pupil or a pupil group vis-a-vis the optimal and minimal requirements of the curriculum and each school subject, as well as for its various content area. This approach permits much more than the traditional methods, utilization of results for deliberation and revision in educational policies. This applies particularly to curriculum construction and methods of instruction. It may also lead to a more appropriate definition of the disadvantaged pupil. Five chapters of the study present a historical review and sociological analysis of the problems of Israeli education and deal with specific methodological considerations. The twelve following chapters present detailed results and analysis for each topic of investigation.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412835398
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive evaluation study of elementary education in Israel conducted over several years and completed in 1977. The study concentrates on Jewish schools, but some data are presented from parallel studies in the Arab Schools. A notable feature of the study is its unusually large scope both in size and content. It sampled nearly ten percent of Jewish schools and fifteen percent of Arab schools. The content includes a great variety of areas: cultural origins, home conditions and socialization patterns of pupils, conditions and practices in schools, teachers' and principals' backgrounds and their attitudes toward central issues in education, pupils' personality characteristics and motivations related to school experience, their learning abilities and achievements in five major school subjects. Special emphasis is given to the disadvantaged pupils, and an examination of the problem of equality of educational opportunity. This study's uniqueness lies in a novel approach in the measurement and analysis of scholastic achievements. Like all studies in the "psychometric" tradition, it places pupils in a position related to an advantaged pupil group. But test construction and most data analyses were carried out by the criterion-reference approach combined with a notion of "master learning." This enabled presentation of the absolute achievement level of a pupil or a pupil group vis-a-vis the optimal and minimal requirements of the curriculum and each school subject, as well as for its various content area. This approach permits much more than the traditional methods, utilization of results for deliberation and revision in educational policies. This applies particularly to curriculum construction and methods of instruction. It may also lead to a more appropriate definition of the disadvantaged pupil. Five chapters of the study present a historical review and sociological analysis of the problems of Israeli education and deal with specific methodological considerations. The twelve following chapters present detailed results and analysis for each topic of investigation.