Sterling Plata

Opening New Doors is about leveraging your unique passion and talent to reinvent yourself and to add value to the lives of people within your reach.  It is your ultimate action planner, affirmation hub, motivational guide, and dream catcher.

Research skills are indispensavle in the Information Age because government institutions, business firms, and educational systems are all clamoring for the latest technology, the best solution, the most practical strategy.

This book not only trains students to conduct library research but it also inspires students to see research as a social responsibility to help improve the quality of life in the country.

Features:
-inspiring articles about the power of research
-separate process sheets to help students keep track of their progress
-checklists and scoring guides for self-assessment
-list of research topics that matter in the country

This book hopes to help students to discover that they are agents of change. It aims to start a gentle revolution by taking a proactive stance amd helping the youth to become confident, assertive, persuasive, and ethical leaders and speakers.

This book integrates learning with assessment by including rubrics and checklists for students and teachers. Also, there are readings, cases, and tasks to develop critical thinking.

This workbook helps students to understand their own writing process, so they can use processes that help them write better. It is a follow to the book Keys to Confidence and Competence (grammar, reading, and study skills) because Keys to Success in Academic Writing develops skills in essay writing and doing research.

College English: Grammar in Academic Context (c) 2009

-provides progress indicators at the end of each unit
-contextualizes grammar exercises in authentic academic tasks
-provides reading, writing, listening, and speaking practice in real-life communication
-encourages self-regulated learning
-practices higher-order thinking skills

Previous research on praising students to improve their motivation and their mindset had mixed results. This inconsistency was the impetus for this paper. The present study employed a mixed-method experimental design to examine the effects of effort praise on reading motivation and mindset of 60 Filipino seventh-grade students who were categorized as frustration-level readers. They studied English as a second language (ESL) where they were expected to comprehend various texts with appropriate reading styles based on the Grade 7 curriculum guide of the Department of Education in the Philippines. Using the Implicit Theory Scale (Dweck et al., 1995), the study found that effort praise led students in the positive rule group to endorse a growth mindset, while the students in the inverse rule group adopted a fixed mindset after receiving effort praise. Moreover, although it may increase reading motivation, the positive effect of effort praise on struggling ESL readers with fixed and grow...

Previous research on praising students to improve their motivation and their mindset had mixed results. This inconsistency was the impetus for this paper. The present study employed a mixedmethod experimental design to examine the effects of effort praise on reading motivation and mindset of 60 Filipino seventh-grade students who were categorized as frustration-level readers. They studied English as a second language (ESL) where they were expected to comprehend various texts with appropriate reading styles based on the Grade 7 curriculum guide of the Department of Education in the Philippines. Using the Implicit Theory Scale (Dweck et al., 1995), the study found that effort praise led students in the positive rule group to endorse a growth mindset, while the students in the inverse rule group adopted a fixed mindset after receiving effort praise. Moreover, although it may increase reading motivation, the positive effect of effort praise on struggling ESL readers with fixed and growth mindsets may be shortterm. This paper concludes with a schematic diagram to illustrate and explain how effort praise affects the mindset and the motivation of struggling ESL adolescents in reading. It also provides practical recommendations to improve reading teachers' practice of giving positive feedback, specifically effort praise.

Many schools find systemic reform difficult to implement as there are many factors and stakeholders who may hinder this initiative. This case study looks into systemic reform process in a higher education institution through policy document analysis and participant observation. It also reports the process of aligning the vision, standards, and assessment in a department. The results showed that systemic school reform can be realized with a leadership that can align the curriculum, pedagogical framework, and professional development. The consensus-building processes in the department level were also seen as a mechanism to ensure that every member of the faculty would share a common vision for the students.

Keywords: Systemic reform; Aligning standards and assessment; Transformative framework

Résumé/Abstract This paper analyzes aspects of the assessment reform that started in 2003 in the Philippines by evaluating its policy and its implementation. Documents from the Department of Education pertaining to the reform were reviewed to trace the alignment of ...