Assessing You


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This career planning handbook describes how to identify specific assets within each of these four elements: knowledge, skills and abilities; personal characteristics; resources; and passion. It includes activities to explore personal career assets and how to apply them to a new line of work or a new way of working.




A Preparation Guide for the Assessment Center Method


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This book presents the concepts and describes the methods that have helped law enforcement officers at all ranks successfully prepare for participation in law enforcement assessment centers at the local, county, State, and Federal levels. An assessment center is a process that uses many techniques and assessors in deciding whether a participant shows the skills and knowledge to perform well in specific law enforcement positions. One chapter explains what to expect in the assessment center experience, as it describes assessment center guidelines and methods. A chapter on planning for preparation and performance suggests how to structure study time, the physical and psychological preparation required, the use of advisors and mentors, preparation resources, rehearsals, and exercises. A chapter on center assessors, rating methods, and rating forms explains how assessment-center decisions and scores are derived and what they mean. Another chapter identifies and discusses the various skills and knowledge that are assessed at a center, including communication, counseling, delegation, discipline, interpersonal sensitivity, job knowledge, motivation, planning and coordination, leadership, management, and problem-solving and decision making. The concluding chapter suggests how to demonstrate knowledge, skill, and attitude in the various center exercises.




All You Have to Do Is Ask


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A set of tools for mastering the one skill standing between us and success: the ability to ask for the things we need to succeed. Imagine you’re on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overwhelmed. Or you're looking for a job, but can't seem to get your foot in the door. Or you're dying for tickets to a sold out concert, and all your leads have gone cold. What do these problems have in common? They can all be solved simply by reaching out to a colleague, friend, or wider network and making an ask. Studies show that asking for help makes us better and less frustrated at our jobs. It helps us find new opportunities and new talent. It unlocks new ideas and solutions, and enhances team performance. And it helps us get the things we need outside the workplace as well. And yet, we rarely give ourselves permission to ask. Luckily, the research shows that asking—and getting—what we need is much easier than we tend to think. Here, Wayne Baker shares a set of strategies—used at companies like Google, GM, and IDEO—that individuals, teams, and leaders can use to make asking for help a personal and organizational habit, including: • A quiz to identify your asking-giving style • SMART criteria for who, when, and how to ask • “Plug-and-play ” routines that make requests a standard component of meetings • Mini-games that incentivize asking within teams • The Reciprocity Ring, a guided activity that allows people to tap into the giving power of a network Picking up where the bestselling book Give and Take left off, All You Have to Do Is Ask shows us how to ignite the cycle of giving and receiving by asking for the things we need. Advance praise for All You Have to Do Is Ask “Asking for help and support has been a key to my success. Wayne Baker expertly shares how everyone can do it.”—Shellye Archambeau, former CEO, MetricStream, and board director, Verizon and Nordstrom “Wayne Baker shares the formula for driving personal, organizational, and social change by tapping the power of our teams and networks for help. This insightful book is a must-read for anyone seeking practical and proven solutions to make our workplaces and world a better place.”—Noel Tichy, professor, University of Michigan, and author of Judgment and Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will




Planning, Delivering and Assessing GNVQs


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This work provides a guide to GNVQ assessor units that teachers must work towards, and is directly linked to the teacher's role in the planning and implementation of GNVQs. It provides examples and case studies across a number of different occupational areas.




Principles and Practice of Assessment in the Lifelong Learning Sector


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‘Principles and Practice of Assessment’ is a core text aimed at the mandatory unit of the CTLLS qualification for levels 3 and 4. The successful completion of this module contributes towards the ‘Associate’ teaching role outlined by Lifelong Learning UK. This book will help trainees successfully prepare for and complete this unit. It offers helpful activities and case studies which ensure readers understand the principles of assessment and can utilise assessment effectively in their learning and teaching. The material covered in this text is also highly relevant to those undertaking an NVQ in Learning and Development.




Assessing in Sport


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Assessing Students


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Assessment methods can largely determine what and how students learn, so it is vital that our assessment methods are appropriate to our true educational purposes. This book examines the issues underlying assessment procedures, such as truth, fairness, trust, humanity and social justice and goes on to consider the five key dimensions of assessment: * why assess? * what to assess? * how to assess? * How to interpret? * How to respond? Having guided us through the many conceptual and terminological traps, the book ends constructively with seventeen proposals for making assessment work in the best interests of our students.




Reading Assessment, Third Edition


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This trusted practitioner guide and course text helps K-8 teachers utilize assessment as an integral component of classroom instruction. It guides teachers step by step to recognize good reader behaviors, assess students' strengths and weaknesses, and make evidence-based instructional decisions. Formal and informal measures are discussed for evaluating specific components of literacy, with a focus on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Every chapter features activities for developing understanding; in-depth practice exercises are provided in several appendices. Helpful reproducible tools can be photocopied from the book or downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. New to This Edition *Chapter on major current initiatives: the CCSS and response to intervention. *Extensive CCSS content woven throughout the book. *Expanded coverage of vocabulary assessment, now in its own chapter. *Checklists to guide the selection of high-quality published instruments.




Troubleshooting for Trainers


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This book covers all the key elements of the training process and the problems and pitfalls behind them. This extends from handling the client/sponsor before the course to reflecting on the lessons to be learned afterwards. Subjects covered include, among others, on being a new trainer; on the various types of troublesome trainee; on coping with treacherous hardware; on group dynamics.




Sensory Panel Management


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Covering all aspects of sensory panel management, this volume describes the different types of sensory panels (for example panels for quality control, descriptive analysis and discrimination tests), discusses the issues involved with sensory testing, and gives detailed information about sensory panel recruitment, training and on-going management. Sensory Panel Management gives both theoretical and practical information from deciding what type of panel to recruit and how to conduct panel training, to creating the best sensory team and how to deal with any issues. Downloads of several of the documents included in the book are available from http://www.laurenlrogers.com/sensory-panel-management.html The book is divided into three main sections. The first section looks at the recruitment of sensory panels, covering the process from both a scientific and a human resources angle. The second section deals with the training of a sensory panel. Initial training, as well as method and product specific training is covered. Example session plans for running panel sessions for quality control, discrimination tests, descriptive profiling, temporal methods and consumer tests are included within the specific chapters. Refresher and advanced training such as training panelists to take part in gas chromatography-olfactometry are also included. The third section examines the performance of sensory panels. Chapters within this section explore performance measures and ways of preventing (and dealing with) difficult situations relating to panellists. A final chapter looks at the future of sensory panels. Throughout the book there are short case study examples demonstrating the practical application of the methods being discussed. Sensory Panel Management is a key reference for academics, technical and sensory staff in food companies. Lauren Rogers is an independent sensory science consultant in the UK with more than twenty years of practical experience. She has worked on a wide variety of projects, including shelf life studies, product and flavor optimization, new flavor development and in-depth brand analyses. She is a member of the Society of Sensory Professionals, the Institute of Food Science and Technology's Sensory Science Group, the Sensometric Society and is also a member of the ASTM Sensory Evaluation Committee (E18). - Discusses sensory panels for testing food and non-food based products - Covers best practices for recruitment, selection and training of panels - Provides examples of training plans for sensory panels - Encompasses experimental design and data analysis of panel results - Organized in modular format for practical uses




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