Michael Rodriguez

What holidays does your family celebrate? Are they different from your friends? Celebrating Differences is the second book in the Yahooty Who? series of imaginary character books. You'll meet 4 brand new helpful Yahooty characters while learning a heartfelt lesson about embracing cultural uniqueness. Join Max, Ticker, Aqua, Terra, and Zap as they help 5 friends from varied backgrounds discover that it's fun to learn about what makes us different.

The College Instructor’s Guide to Writing Test Items: Measuring Student Learning addresses the need for direct and clear guidance on item writing for assessing broad ranges of content in many fields. By focusing on multiple-choice response items, this book provides college instructors the tools to understand, develop, and use assessment activities in classrooms in a way that consistently supports learning. Including dozens of example items and additional resources to support the item development process, this volume is unique in its practical-focus, and is essential reading for instructors and soon-to-be educators, professional development specialists, and higher education researchers. As teaching, assessment, and learning are inherently intertwined, The College Instructor’s Guide to Writing Test Items both facilitates the development of instructors’ own practice and improves the learning outcomes and success of students.

The College Instructor’s Guide to Writing Test Items: Measuring Student Learning addresses the need for direct and clear guidance on item writing for assessing broad ranges of content in many fields. By focusing on multiple-choice response items, this book provides college instructors the tools to understand, develop, and use assessment activities in classrooms in a way that consistently supports learning. Including dozens of example items and additional resources to support the item development process, this volume is unique in its practical-focus, and is essential reading for instructors and soon-to-be educators, professional development specialists, and higher education researchers. As teaching, assessment, and learning are inherently intertwined, The College Instructor’s Guide to Writing Test Items both facilitates the development of instructors’ own practice and improves the learning outcomes and success of students.

Adrianna attempts to seduce Victor into using his uncanny hacking skills to help spark a revolution against the country where he was born and raised... will Victor succumb to her advances or will he risk his life and that of his star student to deny them access to the perfect virus? FORGOTTEN COLONY, is the story of Victor Santos, a young man of Puerto Rican decent who grew up in Brooklyn, NY. After getting into trouble for hacking into government computers in New York he returns to Puerto Rico as a High School Computer teacher. He is actively trying to stay out of trouble. In his efforts to protect one of his students, he is unwillingly pulled into an uprising of a rebellious group on the island informally known as "The Macheteros". During his recruitment, Victor falls in love with their leader Adrianna Carrion. She tries to convince him to complete the code for a virus that will give the rebellion the leverage it needs to demand liberty from the United States of America. Can Victor sympathize with the cause of a revolution 30 years in the making or does he risk his life and use his skills to help stop the revolution before it even begins?