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Walter Foster Jr
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[2017]
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The Know-Nonsense Guide to Measurements is a hilariously illustrated, quirky and fun guide that kids will love! Turn each page in this book to learn a new basic concept about how we measure things, from length and mass to time and intensity. Basic units include feet, yards, meters, grams, bits and bytes, seconds, minutes, decibels, and more! Also included are the differences between the system of measurement in the United States and the metric system....
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! In this wacky look at weight, Brian P. Cleary and Brian Gable introduce essential measurement units-from grams to pounds to tons. The comical cats of the wildly popular Words Are CATegorical® series show how to measure trucks, trains, ducks, cranes, and more. Peppy rhymes, goofy illustrations, and kid-friendly examples make light work of...
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Roaring Brook Press
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c2010
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The mile gets its name from the term mille passus, which means "a thousand paces." The abbreviation for pound (lb.) comes from the Latin libra pondo. Feet, pounds, quarts, miles: these are words we use every day. But where did they originate, and what do they actually mean?
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The fascinating 600 psychological Quiz Books/Puzzles/Brain Teaserszes in this book promise to reveal your Emotional IQ, which would enable you to assess your feelings, capabilities and aptitudes. As you develop self-awareness, you will not only be able to identify the emotional patterns in your life, but will manage them well and will also be able to activate all-round Personality Development. This book enables you to: Generate fresh enthusiasm and...
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Prometheus Books
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2019.
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Big data is often touted as the key to understanding almost every aspect of contemporary life. This critique of "information hubris" shows that even more important than data is finding the right metrics to evaluate it. The author, an expert in environmental design and city planning, examines the many ways in which we measure ourselves and our world. He dissects the metrics we apply to health, worker productivity, our children's education, the quality...
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Make math fun with Weigh It! Fun photographs, colorful graphics, and simple text are used to teach young readers basic math concepts. From Scales to Metric System to Standard System this book will help kids develop the skills they need. A simple activity at the end of the book encourages kids to put weight to use! Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Get answers to your most challenging questions about implementing effective assessment and grading practices. How do we use assessments to increase hope, efficacy, and achievement? Is reassessment important? Can we change grading practices when stakeholders don't want us to? All of these questions, and dozens more, are answered concisely, making it easy to build strong assessment and grading practices quickly.
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Greater numbers of English learners (ELs) are enrolled in school every year. Teachers and administrators are concerned with the large gap in reading and academic standing between ELs and students performing at grade level and want to know how to provide quality instruction to help close this gap. This book addresses the language, literacy, and content instructional needs of ELs and frames quality instruction within effective schooling structures and...
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To overcome the problem, present series of handbooks on every subject has been prepared. It would save time and energy of a teacher, on one hand, and provide sufficient feedback on the concerned subject, in a short time, on the other. Simultaneously, it would instill confidence in teachers to address any query, posed by the students on the topic under discussion or teaching. This particular book is titled: Teacher's Handbook of Measurement and Evaluation....
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L'évaluation des apprentissages représente tout un défi dans le réseau de l'éducation au Québec. Comment se traduit cet enjeu dans l'enseignement supérieur? En quoi consiste l'évaluation des apprentissages de nos jours? En mettant le cap vers l'enseignement de compétences, ce ne sont pas que les programmes d'études que nous avons redéfinis; nos approches pédagogiques et nos pratiques évaluatives ont, elles aussi, pris un virage.
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Get ready for test day the fast way! A quick and easy to read story that includes 500 of the most popular GRE words. Sail around the tropics with Lilly and her coterie of marine scientists as they uncover the mysterious anomaly that is harming the coral reef. Includes a glossary of terms to help make studying for your exam fast and effortless. 500 of the top GRE vocabulary wordsRetain and remember new words with greater ease.Learn vocabulary in the...
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This book tells parents everything they need to know about the CogAT® Test (the Cognitive Abilities Test™). This test is often given to children as part of a Gifted and Talented admissions process. Created by TestingMom.com, the premier online resource to help parents along with their pre-K to 8th grader with skill building and testing success. TestingMom.com helps parents preparing their children for Gifted and Talented and private school tests,...
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En las ciencias sociales, a diferencia de las ciencias naturales, los investigadores no siempre disponen de instrumentos de investigación apropiados para tratar su objeto de estudio con un alto grado de validez y confiabilidad. Ello plantea al investigador el reto de tener que desarrollar sus propios instrumentos de medida para satisfacer sus requerimientos de indagación científica. En ese sentido, aseguramos que en esta obra el lector interesado...
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Assessment is the bedrock upon which any quality CBE program should be built. Yet, while educators understand the concept of measuring learning, they may not be familiar with the complexities involved in measuring the application of that learning. Using Excelsior College's model–-shaped over four decades creating and delivering psychometrically sound assessments of competency–-this guide provides essential, preliminary direction in assessment...
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Practice Match the answers and prepare for ARDMS Sonography Principles and Instrumentation (SPI) exam. Get the results you deserve. This book is devoted to the ARDMS SPI exam and the material is based on the ARDMS physics exam outline. It explains the concepts in very simple and easy to understand way. If you are preparing to take ARDMS Ultrasound Physics Exam and looking for an ultrasound book which can help you, the Pass Ultrasound Physics Exam...
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