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This book provides a basis for class discussion about the responsible conduct of social science research.

Help middle schoolers engage in the classroom before it's too late! The authors' four principles of brain-based learning show you how to create strong, positive learning patterns.

Teachers will find an instructional and assessment framework for helping ELLS excel. Includes an array of strategies for teaching functional, content-area, technological, and innovative literacy.

This text brings Bourdieu's corpus into the arena of elementary and secondary educational reform and change, and offers policy, research and practice discussions.

This updated edition includes a generous selection of user-friendly strategies that help teachers assess struggling learners, students with special needs, children who are performing at grade level, and advanced learners. Included are practical tools

This sixth volume in the SAGE Series on Green Society covers the consumption, availability, and distribution of energy and other resources in the personal consumer environment.

An essential introduction to the cognitive sciences which examines both historical and contemporary research findings of the core cognitive science disciplines.

A concise, quick-reference guide to key concepts in business ethics

Learn to increase educators' cultural competency, overcome institutionalized factors that limit achievement, and implement equitable practices--with real-life success stories, exercises, and dedicated online resources.

The author demonstrates basic statistical concepts from two different perspectives, giving the reader a conceptual understanding of how to interpret statistics and their use

The coauthor of Classroom Instruction That Works explains how to use feedback the way computer apps do—for setting goals, tracking progress, and regulating students' learning.

Focussing on online research, this text shows readers how to access and interpret public health data.

Provides instruction and guidance on preparing quantitative data sets prior to answering a study's research questions

A concise guide that offers a step-by-step approach to the strategic use of alternative media by both the marketing and advertising professions.

A concise introduction to the writings, life, and influences of Georg Simmel - an important sociologist whose work is now taught across sociological theory courses worldwide.

Drawing on recent "event history" analytical methods from biostatistics, engineering and sociology, this book explains how longitudinal data can be used to study the causes of deaths, crimes, wars, and many other human-related events.

The authors provide a reasonable and even-handed methodology for teaching reading to K-12 students. Instead of focusing on worksheets and drills, their research-based approach shows teachers how to align instruction with standards, use formative asse

Quantitative Research for the Qualitative Researcher is a concise text that provides students who are not predisposed to mathematical or scientific thinking with the needed conceptual and practical understanding of quantitative methodology.

For educational leaders serious about ending student outcome disparities, Culturally Courageous Leadership can empower all school stakeholders to ensure that equity initiatives are successful.

This book discusses the full extent and nature of teen technology use. It breaks down what cyberbullying is and how it is different from traditional bullying, including the relatively new phenomenon of sexting. There are strategies to empower student

This book's collection of instructional strategies and assessment methods show how to implement and differentiate project-based learning that fosters 21st century skills in Grades K–12.

A brief, affordable book that provides a contemporary analysis of how economics and social class affects the concept of family today.

This book explores the challenges experienced by convicted offenders characterized by having special needs, and promotes interest in a rapidly increasing segment of the incarcerated inmates' population.

This book outlines what it means to intentionally interrupt the status quo of professional learning in order to enable real new learning that takes the form of permanent changes in thinking and practice, that looks at what it takes to move profession

An introduction to the concepts, assumptions, and practical implementation procedures involved in common types of projects based on hierarchical linear modelling, multilevel modelling, or linear mixed modelling.

This field book shows educators how to improve schools by developing group culture, enhancing facilitators' skills, and equipping groups to resolve complex issues around student learning.

This interdisciplinary text examines five different components of family health--biology, behavior, social-cultural circumstances, the environment, and health care--and the ways they affect the abilities of family members to perform well in their hom

Looks at the development of family policy in America. This title examines the legal and sociological definitions of family and the changes of division of labor within families and changes in economic issues.

The casebook helps students gain a better understanding of nonprofit management by providing 28 contemporary cases from around the world, illustrating the complexity of nonprofit management in a variety of different sectors.

This is the first comprehensive Handbook to examine the various models of stress, coping, and health and their relevance to nursing and related health fields. No other volume provides a compendium of key issues in stress and coping for the nursing an

Examines state-of-the-art research and knowledge regarding nonverbal behavior and applies that scientific knowledge to a broad range of fields.

Provides an introduction to the major theories, methods and findings of social network analysis research and the applications from that research.

This book is a brief, supplemental book derived from the International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling. Edited by a high-profile team with international expertise, the book focuses on the history, issues, challenges, and opportunities for the c

Addressing issues of social class, race and ethnicity, and more, this book reflects the shift in recent years towards social justice counseling for all mental health professionals.

Focusing on empirical research, this is an engaging and critical guide through each step of the research process, outlining the procedures, differences, strengths and limitations of metric, interpretive and the newer hybrid approaches.

A fresh look at the numbers of daily living, particularly in light of current economic troubles, where modern economic practices, mathematical concepts, and everyday moral dilemmas are discussed.