Education / Evaluation & Assessment

This book integrates perspectives on growth-focused motivation into the practice of psychological assessment and intervention with children and youth.

Analysing rankings in diverse higher education settings, this book draws on discourse analysis, theory, ethnography, and case studies, to consider the question of how knowledge is produced and shared.

Making a Grade takes historiographic and sociological perspectives developed to understand large-scale scientific and technical systems and uses them to highlight the standardization that went into "standardized testing."

The book underlines the value of simulation-based education as an approach that fosters authentic engagement and deep learning.

Exploring major themes in social work education, including pedagogy, practice, and issues in teaching, this book is for both new and experienced social work educators.

Written specifically for undergraduate students, this guide describes the basic elements of scientific writing as well as the elements of grammar and punctuation fundamental to all good writing. Clear, concise explanations and examples.

This book is designed to guide social workers in their work as field instructors. It is unique because it presents a conceptual system which unites social work theory taught in the classroom to applied practice in a variety of community settings.

This is a comprehensive primary reference to a rich and often neglected storehouse of information on Canada's educational background. Goulson has included all major ministerial-level governmental inquiries in Canadian education between 1787 and 1978.

For over eighty years this delightful classic has provided entertainment through mathematical problems commonly known as recreations. This new edition upholds the original, but the terminology and treatment of problems have been updated and much new material has been added. 

Professor Cameron examines how today`s university functions, what its aims should be and what its strengths and deficiencies are, and presents some proposals for reform. 

A variety of institutions and activities including the training of teachers, research and development, and educational television services are discussed in this volume, and it describes in detail the creation and growth of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and its research activities.

Scarborough was the first North American university college planned from its inception for television. John Lee has written a comprehensive and easily read report of the experiement, its results, and its effects on the internal life of the college. His approach is sociological.

The anatomical study of an animal is chiefly a matter of applying a certain practical method of exposition, the student's attention being concentrated on those facts which can be made out by direct observation. This method is educative because it involves accurate discernment of detail, and it is the foundation of laboratory practice.

The first edition of this book gave a systematic exposition of the Weinstein method of calculating lower bounds of eigenvalues by means of intermediate problems. This second edition presents new developments in the framework of the material contained in the first edition, which is retained in somewhat modified form.

The Second Canadian Conference on Education was the result of several years of determined effort by representatives of organizations concerned with education. Le deuxième Conférence canadienne sur l’éducation a été le résultat de plusieurs années d’efforts résolus par les représentants d’organisations intéressées à l’éducation.

Dean Sisam has traced the history of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto from its establishment over fifty years ago to the present day. The first half of his survey is chronological. The second half is analytical.