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The Black Box series offers easy-to-read advice for teachers on how to implement the key techniques within formative assessment. This set includes: Inside the Black Box; Working Inside the Black Box; Primary Years; English; Maths; Science; Geography; ICT; Foreign Languages; Design and Digital Technologies; and Inside the Black Box of Assessment .

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Geography students must develop process skills for investigation as well as communication skills to question and discuss their findings. Formative assessment fits well into this learning setting, since its purpose is for teachers to sift student responses in class discussion and activity and make professional judgements about the next steps in learning. Using this exclusive edition, revised by John Butler to align with the recently released Australian Curriculum: Geography, primary and secondary teachers throughout Australia can enrich their geography instruction with assessment for learning while fulfilling national curriculum requirements. Learn More

Inside the Black Box: Design and Digital Technologies attempts to blend what we know about the power of formative assessment with a restatement of the educational purpose of Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies. In today’s increasingly digital world, the need to increase the level of technological literacy in all societies is of international importance, and so this booklet offers advice to teachers on how to interact more effectively with technology students on a day-to-day basis. In this book, the authors detail the results of their research into ways of practising formative assessment in Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies.

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This revised Australian edition of Inside the Black Box: Primary Years is an up-to-date guide to assessment for learning focused on helping Australian primary teachers to acquire and develop effective assessment practice. The booklet offers guidance on how to develop a community of learning that builds on collaborative practice between children, offering recommendations grounded in both research findings and in the authors’ experience of working with many teachers, schools and local authorities over the last decade.

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In the ever-evolving climate of ICT education, formative assessment practices have an essential role to play, since their purpose is to enable teachers to sift the rich data that arise in class discussion and activity so that professional judgements can be made about the next steps in learning. In this book, the authors offer advice to ICT teachers on how to use formative assessment to interact more effectively with students and promote learning. They set out in detail four main ways of practising formative assessment in an ICT setting, outlining assessment techniques that encourage learners to bring their ideas to the fore. Using these methods, teachers can gauge what students already know, while assessing learners’ analytical skills and how they approach a design task.

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This revised Australian edition of English inside the Black Box offers an opportunity to reconsider established teaching strategies such as classroom dialogue and peer- and self-assessment in the light of the research findings on formative assessment, and to use them more rigorously and consistently as a means of helping students to progress. The booklet examines the principles of learning that underpin formative assessment and goes on to consider how these might be applied in the classroom, identifying the aspects of formative assessment that research has shown to be important in raising student achievement in the English classroom. Learn More

This bundle contains: Brigance: Screens III: Screen 0-35 Months (CA14294),  Brigance: Screens III: Screen 3-5 Years (CA14296), Brigance: Screens III: Screen Foundation and Year One (CA14299), Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet Infant (CA14301),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet Toddler (CA14303),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 2-Year-Old (CA14305), Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 3-Year-Old (CA14309), Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 4-Year-Old (CA14311), Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 5-Year-Old (CA14313), Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet Foundation (CA14315), Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet Year One (CA14317), Brigance: Screens III: Technical Report (CA14300) and Brigance: Screens III: Box of Materials (CA8651).

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Develop reading and comprehension skills with leveled texts for children in Prep to Year 1. Real-world photos and beautiful illustrations serve as engaging visual aids and inspire discussion. Teaching tips and activities in each book help parents and educators build comprehension and writing skills. Learn More

The Brigance: Screens III Bundle 3-5 Years is designed to be used by all persons engaged in Early Childhood Education from 3-5 years. If used correctly, screens and assessments will produce valid results, enabling identification of a child’s developmental age and suggest appropriate interventions to help improve skills across a wide range of domains, ensuring all children are ‘school ready’. This bundle contains: Brigance: Screens III: Screen 3-5 Years (CA14296),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 3-Year-Old (CA14308),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 4-Year-Old (CA14310),  Brigance: Screens III: Data Sheet 5-Year-Old (CA14312) and Brigance: Screens III: Technical Report (CA14300).

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The Sight Word literacy readers have been divided into themes to introduce new concepts to children. The Science set introduces topics such as weather, health, plants and animals that engage the students while they are learning to read.

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This bundle will allow screening of children from 5-6 years to determine their developmental age. Based on the results of the screen children can be assessed at a deeper level using the IED III. Interventions can then be introduced using the Readiness Activities. Once the interventions are complete, children can be re-screened to determine growth in developmental age and to ascertain if further interventions or referrals are required. Examples of persons who might use this kit include but are not limited to Maternal Health Nurses, Doctors, Paediatricians, Kindergarten and Early Childhood teachers and Child Care workers. A degree in Psychology is not required to administer either the Screens III or the IED III.

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The BRIGANCE Inventory of Early Development III is a comprehensive collection of valid, reliable and well-researched developmental assessments for students from birth up to the developmental age of seven. The IED III offers a complete range of information on a student's developmental skill levels as demonstrated under real-life, everyday conditions. Because skills within assessments are developmentally sequenced from the easiest items (earliest mastered skills) to more difficult ones, a student's present level of performance can be pinpointed along the skill continuum. The Brigance IED III: Special Education Classroom Kit includes the Brigance IED III: Special Education, twenty Brigance IED III Record Books, and the Brigance IED III Accessories Kit, all collected in a durable Brigance bag.

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