This book looks at the role and purpose of assessment in primary education and provides guidance and practical strategies, so students will gain a firm understanding of assessment and how to use it effectively in their teaching.

Drawing on international examples from the UK, US, Australia and South East Asia, this book offers a commentary on fairness that is highly relevant to the changing context of assessment today.

This popular and widely recommended book outlines all the requirements of the Numeracy Skills Test. Written by one of the authors of the skills test itself, it explains the essential subject knowledge candidates need and includes practice questions for test preparation.

Student-focused and designed to enhance critical thinking, this new core textbook is mapped to early childhood degrees with a focus on seeing children in the context of the word they live in.

Clear, friendly and down-to-earth, this guide helps you translate your offline assessment skills in an online environment. From presentations to portfolios, it shows you how to improve your grades and excel in your work.

Essential reading to support principled assessment decisions in the classroom.

Real-life stories of courage from the #WomenEd community.

A book with nearly 300 images of six unconventional schools.

What does it look like when school happens outside in a forest, at a soldering bench, or in a pig shed? When school leaders make a curriculum that follows the way a child thinks and grows, not the other way around? When class means building a roller coaster, robotics, or a biodiesel motorbike? What do we see when school truly engages kids, all the while really helping them develop the skills they need in life? This book is here to ...

Pocket Style Manual, APA Version provides practical advice for any level of university writing in courses such as psychology, criminal justice, nursing, education, business, and more. Straightforward instruction in grammar, style, and punctuation, combined with a how-to approach to research writing, gives students quick answers to their writing questions. What's more, it covers all aspects of writing in APA Style, from language guidelines to documentation models to sample student writing in d...

This book explains why and how diversity can be taught through the primary National Curriculum.