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Explores five historical movements: romanticism, transcendentalism, abolitionism, industrialism, and feminism.
Explores the 1940s through the literature of the decade, including novels, short stories, poetry, essays, letters, and newspapers.
This essential handbook is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the assessment of gifted and advanced students and their programs, and a must-have resource for coordinators and directors at state and local levels. Handbook on Assessments for Gifted Learners explores issues associated with building an effective identification system, clarifies and interprets the need for targeted learning progress assessments for gifted learners, and discusses program evaluation, assessments, and processes used to gauge programs’ success. Engaging chapters written by both academic and practitioner experts provide research-based, practical ideas for identifying and measuring the progress of gifted and advanced learners. Readers will benefit from informed recommendations stemming from current research conducted specifically for this text.
"Students will be able to apply the ideas involved in the systems concept to the analysis of scientific systems, such as an ecosystem, and of other systems, such as the political and economic system."--Page 4
"Students will be able to analyze several systems during the course of the unit. These include the "problem system", defined by the boundaries of the area affected by the acid spill; the stream ecosystem (into which the acid flows); and the transportation system (which will be disrupted by the acid spill). In addition, all experiments set up during the course will be treated as systems."--Page 3
