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Educational Assessment in a Changing World

Lessons Learned and the Path Ahead

by Isabel Nisbet, Stuart Shaw ...

This timely book takes stock of the wide range of developments in society, education and assessment and offers conclusions and strategies that are necessary for the future of educational assessment.Drawing on examples from the UK, Europe and USA, the book will dissect cultural, political, psychological and ideological ideas on society, education and assessment and foreground pressing issues ... Read more

$54.99 USD

This timely book takes stock of the wide range of developments in society, education and assessment and offers conclusions and strategies that are necessary for the future of educational assessment.Drawing on examples from the UK, Europe and USA, the book will dissect cultural, political, psychological and ideological ideas on society, education and assessment and foreground pressing issues
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Falling In Love When You Thought You Were Through

A Love Story

by Jill Robinson, Stuart Shaw ...

$6.99 USD
Is Assessment Fair?

by Isabel Nisbet, Stuart D Shaw ...

Fairness in educational assessment has become a major talking point and allegations that assessments are unfair are commonplace on social media and in the press. But what does fairness mean in practice and how can we evaluate it?This book offers a timely and necessary investigation, exploring the concept through the lenses of: measurement theory, social justice, the law and philosophy in order to ... Read more

$56.99 USD

Fairness in educational assessment has become a major talking point and allegations that assessments are unfair are commonplace on social media and in the press. But what does fairness mean in practice and how can we evaluate it?This book offers a timely and necessary investigation, exploring the concept through the lenses of: measurement theory, social justice, the law and philosophy in order to
... Read more
Validity in Educational and Psychological Assessment

by Paul E Newton, Stuart D Shaw ...

Validity is the hallmark of quality for educational and psychological measurement. But what does quality mean in this context? And to what, exactly, does the concept of validity apply? These apparently innocuous questions parachute the unwary inquirer into a minefield of tricky ideas. This book guides you through this minefield, investigating how the concept of validity has evolved from the ... Read more

$70.99 USD

Validity is the hallmark of quality for educational and psychological measurement. But what does quality mean in this context? And to what, exactly, does the concept of validity apply? These apparently innocuous questions parachute the unwary inquirer into a minefield of tricky ideas. This book guides you through this minefield, investigating how the concept of validity has evolved from the
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Saint Joan

A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue

by Amy Irving, Edward Herrmann, Kristoffer Tabori, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Josh Stanton, Mark Bramhall, Scott Brick0, Robin Sachs1, Robertson Dean2, John Lee3, Stefan Rudnicki4, Ned Schmidtke5, Armin Shimerman6, Steven Ovitsky7, Andrew Barnes8, Ken Danziger9, Gregory Itzen0, Kitty Swink1, Granville van Dusen2, the Amadis Ensemble3, Suzanne Schmidtke4, Stewart Sloke5, George Bernard Shaw6 ...

Narrated by a distinguished cast ...

Unabridged

3 hours 16 min

“Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412—burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431—rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456—designated Venerable in 1904—declared Blessed in 1908—and finally canonized in 1920. She is the most notable Warrior-Saint in the Christian calendar, and the queerest fish among the eccentric worthies of the Middle Ages.”—George Bernard ShawWith ... Read more

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“Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412—burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431—rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456—designated Venerable in 1904—declared Blessed in 1908—and finally canonized in 1920. She is the most notable Warrior-Saint in the Christian calendar, and the queerest fish among the eccentric worthies of the Middle Ages.”—George Bernard ShawWith
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Wonder Of Women - Supernatural Romance Stories

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by Edith Nesbit, Clothilde Graves, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Amelia Edwards, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ...

Narrated by Lisa Bowerman, Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

2 hours 43 min

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on
... Read more
Statistical Techniques in Geographical Analysis

by Dennis Wheeler, Gareth Shaw, Stewart Barr ...

This volume includes changes in the switch from DOS-based to Windows-based, menu-driven forms of SPSS and MINITAB is the most important. The other change shows availability of data in digital form from websites or via CD-ROMs. The book is useful for teachers and students. ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This volume includes changes in the switch from DOS-based to Windows-based, menu-driven forms of SPSS and MINITAB is the most important. The other change shows availability of data in digital form from websites or via CD-ROMs. The book is useful for teachers and students.
... Read more
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She's Leaving Home

by William Shaw ...

Narrated by Cameron Stewart ...

Series Audiobook 1 - A Breen and Tozer Mystery
Unabridged

13 hours 1 min

London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio.The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an ... Read more

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London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio.The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an
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Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism

The Politics of Religious Synthesis

Edited by Rosalind Shaw, Charles Stewart ...

Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not conform to `official' (read `European') models. In other contexts however, the syncretic amalgamation ... Read more

$66.99 USD

Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not conform to `official' (read `European') models. In other contexts however, the syncretic amalgamation
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1870's - The Men

The top ten short stories written in the 1870s by male authors

by Fyodor Dostevesky, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Edward Page Mitchell, Gustave Flaubert, Ivan Turgenev, Jan Neruda, Leo Tolstoy, Sheridan Le Fanu, Vsevolod Garshin ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Stuart Milligan, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

5 hours 25 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
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The Kings of London

by William Shaw ...

Narrated by Cameron Stewart ...

Series Audiobook 2 - A Breen and Tozer Mystery
Unabridged

13 hours 12 min

In Breen and Tozer's London, a battle for the soul of the city is being fought between cops and criminals, the corrupt and the corruptible.London, November 1968. Detective Sergeant Breen has a death threat in his inbox and a mutilated body on his hands. The dead man was the wayward son of a rising politician and everywhere Breen turns to investigate, he finds himself obstructed and increasingly ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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In Breen and Tozer's London, a battle for the soul of the city is being fought between cops and criminals, the corrupt and the corruptible.London, November 1968. Detective Sergeant Breen has a death threat in his inbox and a mutilated body on his hands. The dead man was the wayward son of a rising politician and everywhere Breen turns to investigate, he finds himself obstructed and increasingly
... Read more

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Angel Baby

A Novel

by Richard Lange ...

Unabridged

9 hours

Winner of the International Association of Crime Writers' Dashiell Hammett Award: A woman goes on the run in this intense and cinematic thriller by an award-winning writer.To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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Winner of the International Association of Crime Writers' Dashiell Hammett Award: A woman goes on the run in this intense and cinematic thriller by an award-winning writer.To escape the awful life she has descended into, Luz plans carefully. She takes only the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her husband's safe. The corpses in the hallway weren't part of her plan. Luz needs to
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