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including economic bundles, allowing educators
to select the right mix for their classroom.
Student-Focused Curated
Content
Goodheart-Willcox believes that student-
focused content should be built from standards
and accepted curriculum coverage. Standards from
Precision Exams were used as a development
reference in this text. Architecture: Residential
Drafting and Design also uses a building block
approach with attention devoted to a logical
teaching progression that helps students build
upon their learning. We call on industry experts
and teachers from across the country to review
and comment on our content, presentation, and
pedagogy. Finally, in our refi nement of curated
content, our editors are immersed in content
checking, securing fi gures that convey key infor-
mation, and revising language and pedagogy.
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career and technical education (CTE) community.
Our employee-owners are driven to deliver
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G-W recognizes the crucial role instructors play
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educators’ efforts by providing time-saving
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with traditional and digital activities and assets.
We provide an entire program of learning in
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Precision Exams Certifi cation
Goodheart-Willcox is pleased to partner with
Precision Exams by correlating Architecture: Residential
Drafting and Design to the Architectural Design I
Standards. Precision Exams Standards and Career
Skills Exams were created in concert with industry and
subject matter experts to match real-world job skills and
marketplace demands. Students that pass the exam and
performance portion of the exam can earn a Career Skills
Certification™. Precision Exams provides:
• Access to over 140 Career Skills Exams™ with
pretest exams and posttest exams for national
Career Clusters.
• Instant reporting suite access to measure student
academic growth.
• Easy-to-use, 100% online exam delivery system.
To see how Architecture: Residential Drafting and
Design correlates to the Precision Exams Standards,
please visit www.g-w.com/architecture-2018 and click on
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