This is another addition to our newly launched Express Review Guides series. With a focus on essential math skills, this book helps individuals build the necessary foundation for successfully understanding math basics. With fast targeted lessons and challenging practice exercises, this book is also chock full of math tips, strategies for avoiding common pitfalls, and sidebars with math definitions. Also included are pre and posttests to gauge both weak areas as well as progress.

Make ongoing, classroom-based assessment second nature to your students and you. Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom is a thought-provoking collection of 10 essays on the theories behind the latest assessment techniques. The authors offer in-depth "how to" suggestions on conducting assessments as a matter of routine, especially in light of high-stakes standards-based exams, using assessment to improve instruction, and involving students in the assessment process. The second in NSTA's Science Educator's Essay Collection, Everyday Assessment is designed to build confidence and enhance every teacher's ability to embed assessment into daily classwork. The book's insights will help make assessment a dynamic classroom process of fine-tuning how and what you teach... drawing students into discussions about learning, establishing criteria, doing self-assessment, and setting goals for what they will learn.

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A quick‐in, quick‐out Earth Science study guide that includes subject review chapters and practice questions throughout CliffsNotes Earth Science Quick Review, 2nd Edition, provides a clear, concise, easy‐to‐use review of earth science basics. Perfect for middle school and high school students, as well as for anyone wanting to brush up on their knowledge of how the earth's systems function.Whether you're new to minerals and rocks, or motions of the earth, moon, and sun, or just wanting to refresh your understanding of the subject, this guide can help. Aligned to NGSS, it includes topics such as plate tectonics and mountain formation, weathering and erosion, and measurements and models of the earth. The target audience is substantial: Approximately 49% of the nation's 8th graders take an earth science course, and slightly over 17% of high school students take the course before graduating.