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  • The Effects of Standardized Testing

    Series series Education (R0)
    When George Bernard Shaw wrote his play, Pygmalion, he could hardly have foreseen the use of the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy in debates about standardized testing in schools. Still less could he have foreseen that the validity of the concept would be examined many years later in Irish schools. While the primary purpose of the experimental study reported in this book was not to ... Read more

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  • Sketching the Moon

    An Astronomical Artist's Guide

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    For anyone artistically inclined, observing the Moon and attempting to sketch or paint it can easily become a passion. The Moon presents a broad array of tone, texture, and form. Capturing this in a painting or sketch at the eyepiece of a telescope – or even with binoculars – develops observational skills, leaves a record of the observation, and can also be a delightful and rewarding pastime. ... Read more

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  • Leadership of Assessment, Inclusion, and Learning

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment. In particular, it offers guidance to school and district personnel charged with fair and appropriate assessment of students who represent a wide variety of abilities and ... Read more

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  • Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds

    Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools

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  • Computer Science and Educational Software Design

    A Resource for Multidisciplinary Work in Technology Enhanced Learning

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Developing educational software requires thinking, problematizing, representing, modeling, implementing and analyzing pedagogical objectives and issues, as well as conceptual models and software architectures. Computer scientists face the difficulty of understanding the particular issues and phenomena to be taken into account in educational software projects and of avoiding a naïve technocentered ... Read more

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    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In this book, Warren Keller reveals the secrets of astro-image processing software PixInsight in a practical and easy to follow manner, allowing the reader to produce stunning astrophotographs from even mediocre data. As the first comprehensive post-processing platform to be created by astro-imagers for astro-imagers, it has for many, replaced the generic graphics editors as the software of choice ... Read more

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  • Computerized Adaptive and Multistage Testing with R

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  • Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities

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    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Radio astronomy is a mystery to the majority of amateur astronomers, yet it is the best subject to turn to when desirous of an expanded knowledge of the sky. This guideintends to instruct complete newcomers to radio astronomy, and provides help for the first steps on the road towards the study of this fascinating subject.In addition to a history of the science behind the pursuit, directions are ... Read more

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