Author: Joseph E. Sherrill
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385417945
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Normal Question Book
Author: Joseph E. Sherrill
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Testing Wars in the Public Schools
Author: William J. Reese
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674075692
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing quickly became a key factor in the political battles during this period that gave birth to America's modern public school system. William J. Reese offers a richly detailed history of an educational revolution that has so far been only partially told. Single-classroom schools were the norm throughout the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century. Pupils demonstrated their knowledge by rote recitation of lessons and were often assessed according to criteria of behavior and discipline having little to do with academics. Convinced of the inadequacy of this system, the reformer Horace Mann and allies on the Boston School Committee crafted America's first major written exam and administered it as a surprise in local schools in 1845. The embarrassingly poor results became front-page news and led to the first serious consideration of tests as a useful pedagogic tool and objective measure of student achievement. A generation after Mann's experiment, testing had become widespread. Despite critics' ongoing claims that exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children's health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously challenged. Testing Wars in the Public Schools puts contemporary battles over scholastic standards and benchmarks into perspective by showcasing the historic successes and limitations of the pencil-and-paper exam.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674075692
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing quickly became a key factor in the political battles during this period that gave birth to America's modern public school system. William J. Reese offers a richly detailed history of an educational revolution that has so far been only partially told. Single-classroom schools were the norm throughout the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century. Pupils demonstrated their knowledge by rote recitation of lessons and were often assessed according to criteria of behavior and discipline having little to do with academics. Convinced of the inadequacy of this system, the reformer Horace Mann and allies on the Boston School Committee crafted America's first major written exam and administered it as a surprise in local schools in 1845. The embarrassingly poor results became front-page news and led to the first serious consideration of tests as a useful pedagogic tool and objective measure of student achievement. A generation after Mann's experiment, testing had become widespread. Despite critics' ongoing claims that exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children's health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously challenged. Testing Wars in the Public Schools puts contemporary battles over scholastic standards and benchmarks into perspective by showcasing the historic successes and limitations of the pencil-and-paper exam.
Educational Weekly
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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The Iowa Normal Monthly
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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The Common School Teacher
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1830
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Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1830
Book Description
Books in Series, 1876-1949: Titles
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Books in Series
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Vols. for 1980- issued in three parts: Series, Authors, and Titles.
Publisher:
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Vols. for 1980- issued in three parts: Series, Authors, and Titles.
Catalogue of Books on Teaching
Author: Charles William Bardeen
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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