books about: evaluation     books:       College Handbook 20101 review The College Board College Board, 2009 Conflict of interest The descriptions of individual institutions in this guide are reasonbly comprehensive, and are an easier way of comparing schools than navigating through a variety of inconsistent web sites. However, the glaring omission that shows the College Board's conflict of interest in publishing a college guide *and* owning and administering the SAT exams is apparent in the lack of information about which ...             Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation: How to Work Smart, Build Collaboration, and Close the ... Kim Marshall Jossey-Bass, 2009 Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation How to Work Smart, Build Collaboration, and Close the Achievement Gap Kim Marshall Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation In this important book, education expert Kim Marshall shows how to break away from the typical and often ineffective evaluation approaches in which principals use infrequent classroom visits or rely on standardized test scores to assess a teacher's ...             The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action55 reviews Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton Harvard Business Press, 1996 Essential Recommendations for Modern Business The Balanced Scorecard is the first, most important, and most influential of Kaplan and Norton's books on the implementation of strategic planning. It marks a significant step forward from Hammer and Champy's business process engineering, and it provides a much needed alternative to management's obsession with quarterly reports and short-term profit and loss. Of course, profit is essential. ...             The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political ...76 reviews Lawrence Solomon Richard Vigilante Books, 2008 This will give Al Gore and friends heartburn... A must-read for anyone interested in environmentalism or has seen Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth". Let me start by first stating that the author, Lawrence Solomon, is an environmentalist himself and not some right-wing partisan hack on the lines of Rush Limbaugh. Contrary to what Al Gore and his followers claim, the science of global warming is not "settled" as in man is solely responsible ...             Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions58 reviews Tim Ash Sybex, 2008 Ample valuable information Tim Ash provides long-term strategies that solve the guessing game of Web page improvement and give you an effective battle plan - but don't expect overnight, quick solutions. Landing page optimization - a process of diagnosing, tuning and testing - is detail work. Although Ash refers often to his own Web page "tuning" firm, he also shares ample valuable information your business can use. He ...             Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals: A Guide to Successful Evaluations62 reviews James E., Jr. Neal Neal Publications, 2009 Great book Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals: A Guide to Successful Evaluations [EFFECTIVE PHRASES FOR PERF] Everyone who needs to write Performance Appraisals needs to own this book. It is a must have for the manager who has to write a professional and effective performance evaluation for one or a number of employees. Don't know how I managed to write these before the purchase of this great ...             Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results28 reviews Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg Harvard Business Press, 2006 Review I am taking a Health Care Management Strategy class and this book was recommended by our professor. Very well thought and comprehensive book. Some comclusions can be challenged, but the book bringing a new look on Health Care and provide solutions for improvements.             Fooling Some of the People All of the Time Updated and Revised: A Long Short Story47 reviews David Einhorn Wiley, 2008 One of the best investment books I've ever read, if not the best Perhaps the only honest modern book on investments I have read. Also gives a limited insight into Einhorn's mind and way of thinking as an investor. Einhorn masterfully tells the true tale of his battle against stock manipulation, corrupt and lax government, unscrupulous management, fee-hungry and conflict-laden investment banks, and careless and lazy long investors. In the foreword, ...             The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization (J-B Leader to Leader ...8 reviews Peter F. Drucker Jossey-Bass, 2008 Leadership Pearls A deceptively small book full of powerful ideas promulgated by the late Dr. Drucker. A must read for anyone seriously considering, or engaged in leading organizations. One of the best management books I've read.             Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition491 reviews Steve Krug New Riders Press, 2005 Incredibly useful, sensible advice! Great book if you are required to write any content for the web. Good for web admin, web developers, content writers - anyone doing anything on the web really! Highly recommend.             Who Would You Be Without Your Story?: Dialogues with Byron Katie9 reviews Byron Katie Hay House, 2008 Who Would You Be Without Your Story? Well, Byron Katie is great, her dialogs are great, her compassion and humor are a gift. It is a joy to learn The Work with her books.             Science Formative Assessment: 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning5 reviews Page Keeley Corwin Press, 2008 Not just for science teachers! This book contains a concise description of 75 formative assessments.Most would take 5-10 minutes of class time. Although the examples are specific to K-12 science classes, they could be easily adapted for almost any subject or age group. This is a book that I will refer to many, many times in the coming school year.             Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University1 review Gaye Tuchman University Of Chicago Press, 2009 The Changing Public Higher Ed This is an insightful scholarly review of the changes that occurred at a large public university, Wannabe U. Whether out of a desire to raise their ranking in a mass-media publication, or to emulate so many others, the author demonstrates how this representative public university changed, especially with respect to their administrators and management approach. The author maintains a level of ...             Physical Rehabilitation (O'Sullivan, Physical Rehabilitation)15 reviews Susan B. O'Sullivan F A Davis Co, 2006 Great Price for this book The book was shipped quickly and it new condition... it was one of the best prices around, definately better then my school used prices..             Guide to Analysing Companies (Economist Books)7 reviews Bob Vause Bloomberg Press, 2009 Analyze This! Bob Vause compiles a handy guide for even the layman to comprehend, in navigating through the frequently muddled world of investing. Choosing the right companies to trust with our investment dollars is a daunting enough task under "normal" market conditions; under the current recessionary climate, it's an absolute necessity to weed out the prenteders from the contenders. Even then, there are ...             Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education ...13 reviews Thomas A. Angelo, K. Patricia Cross Jossey-Bass, 1993 Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers This is our second order of the book. It is used by our Tablet Users Group faculty members. We have had Thomas Angelo as a speaker at Rose-Hulman and were very pleased by him and his work. We would highly recommend Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. The book has been very well received and helpful teaching, evaluating & assessing classroom techniques.             Primary Care Medicine: Office Evaluation and Management of the Adult Patient (Primary Care Medicine ( Goroll ...8 reviews Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009 This book rules when it comes to practical advice I like to read Harrison's now and then, but it is so genetics and research heavy that I get bored. This book is excellent because it comes from a practical perspective (i.e. for the busy clinician vs. the academic) and it breaks down problems by symptoms. A sample chapter is "The patient with dizziness". When I see patients with relatively common things that I want to refresh on, I pull out ...             Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, 10th Anniversary Edition25 reviews Charles Murray Basic Books, 1994 This book is not about race... Losing ground uses the coincidence of the post segregation poverty of African Americans to demonstrate the devastating effects social welfare programs have on the futures of poor youth (off all races). It is an empirical buttress to Milton Friedman's paraphrased quote, "If you pay people to be poor you will get more poor people". Losing ground provides statistical proof of this truism.             Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods21 reviews Sage Publications, Inc, 2001 Superb Text and Reference Book In all my years of schooling, this is the first text book that I actually read cover-to-cover and most of it twice. Patton has an accessible, human style of writing. He writes with the voice of a mentor and guide. The content is superb. Particularly useful is Patton's use of summarizing tables. These provide for a quick reference and side-by-side comparisons that help simplify, but not dumb ...             Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals: A Guide to Successful Evaluations [EFFECTIVE PHRASES FOR PERF]2 reviews James E.(Author) Neal Neal Publications, 2006 Essential tool for Writing Performance Documentation This is not a theoretical "how to" book; it is a practical application guide to have beside you when you write a review, or when you have to create disciplinary documentation. Over the past 20 years, I've introduced it when I teach seminars on employee performance documentation. The book provides solid example phrases on dozens of issues to help you find just the right words to describe employee ...              search for books achievement, anniversary, appraisals, assessment, classroom, collaboration, competition, conversions, definitive, evaluation, evaluations, foundation, instruction, management, optimization, organization, performance, persecution, qualitative, redefining, rehabilitation, rethinking, scientists, strategies, successful, supervision, techniques, translating, university, value-based books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen health & personal care: Panasonic WES9753P Shaver Replacement Foil we recommend Black Adder the complete series home  impressum - about us