Reviews for Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms: Faculty Reflections on Their Experiences and Pedagogical Practices of Teaching Diverse Populations

The average rating for Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms: Faculty Reflections on Their Experiences and Pedagogical Practices of Teaching Diverse Populations based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-03-29 00:00:00 Victor Theriault This is a source of intellectual rigour! Boyle is criticising the standardised testing prevailing in most educational systems around the globe. The testocratic British Educational system and the demand for higher scores in numeracy and literacy by the education policy in the U.K is one of this books' main subject. Boyle is one of the greatest British academic defenders of the Formative teaching and learning in classroom practice. He is taking Assessment for Learning much further than Black and Wiliams do, as he insists that Formative assessment is a procedure, not a list of goals to be achieved by the end of a classroom lesson. His work is embracing the contectualisation of Pedagogy as it can be found in the works of Perrenoud, Allal and Freire. The supporters (educators or not) of Formative teaching, learning and assessment, will find his words to be life-changing. A treasure! I totally recomend it!

Review # 2 was written on 2017-05-24 00:00:00 Johnny Bochamp Audience is for college faculty, staff or administration on how to improve outcomes for minority students using noncognitive assessment. Interesting are the variables that correlate with positive outcomes. What's less exciting about this book is that the author self-references his own work constantly and other work cited is mostly in the 1990s. There were a few studies from 200-2002 mentioned, but I find it hard to believe that no research has been conducted in this area in the past 10 years so I was led to believe that it is an outdated lit review. Still a great read however if you are working at a college and in a position to implement research that will improve the outcomes for underrepresented populations.