Author: Jodi Vandenberg-DavesPublisher: National History Day, Inc.
ISBN: 9781598840605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
A History of the Rectangular Survey System
Author: C. Albert WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
The World of Plymouth Plantation
Author: Carla Gardina PestanaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067425080X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
An intimate look inside Plymouth Plantation that goes beyond familiar founding myths to portray real life in the settlement—the hard work, small joys, and deep connections to others beyond the shores of Cape Cod Bay. The English settlement at Plymouth has usually been seen in isolation. Indeed, the colonists gain our admiration in part because we envision them arriving on a desolate, frozen shore, far from assistance and forced to endure a deadly first winter alone. Yet Plymouth was, from its first year, a place connected to other places. Going beyond the tales we learned from schoolbooks, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an illuminating account of life in Plymouth Plantation. The colony was embedded in a network of trade and sociability. The Wampanoag, whose abandoned village the new arrivals used for their first settlement, were the first among many people the English encountered and upon whom they came to rely. The colonists interacted with fishermen, merchants, investors, and numerous others who passed through the region. Plymouth was thereby linked to England, Europe, the Caribbean, Virginia, the American interior, and the coastal ports of West Africa. Pestana also draws out many colorful stories—of stolen red stockings, a teenager playing with gunpowder aboard ship, the gift of a chicken hurried through the woods to a sickbed. These moments speak intimately of the early North American experience beyond familiar events like the first Thanksgiving. On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of the settlement, The World of Plymouth Plantation recovers the sense of real life there and sets the colony properly within global history.
Advancing Human Assessment
Author: Randy E. BennettPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319586890
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one of the world’s leading research institutions, Educational Testing Service. The book’s four major sections detail research and development in measurement and statistics, education policy analysis and evaluation, scientific psychology, and validity. Many of the developments presented have become de-facto standards in educational and psychological measurement, including in item response theory (IRT), linking and equating, differential item functioning (DIF), and educational surveys like the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Programme of international Student Assessment (PISA), the Progress of International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) and the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). In addition to its comprehensive coverage of contributions to the theory and methodology of educational and psychological measurement and statistics, the book gives significant attention to ETS work in cognitive, personality, developmental, and social psychology, and to education policy analysis and program evaluation. The chapter authors are long-standing experts who provide broad coverage and thoughtful insights that build upon decades of experience in research and best practices for measurement, evaluation, scientific psychology, and education policy analysis. Opening with a chapter on the genesis of ETS and closing with a synthesis of the enormously diverse set of contributions made over its 70-year history, the book is a useful resource for all interested in the improvement of human assessment.
Making History
Author: Jodi Vandenberg-DavesPublisher: National History Day, Inc.
ISBN: 9781598840605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The Historic Sites Survey and National Historic Landmarks Program
Author: Barry MackintoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Historical and technical survey
Author: United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee. Committee on PropagationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radio waves
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Social Survey in Historical Perspective, 1880-1940
Author: Martin BulmerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521363349
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This 2001 book traces the history of the social Survey in Britain and the US, with two chapters on Germany and France. It discusses the aims and interests of those who carried out early surveys, and the links between the social survey and the growth of empirical social science.
Historical Records Survey Program
Author: United States. Works Progress AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Inventory of the Research Library of the Historical Records Survey
Author: New Jersey Historical Records Survey ProjectPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Author: