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Boek Psychological Testing In Everyday Life: History, Science, And Practice, geschreven door Goldfinger, uitgegeven door Sage, Psychologische testen en onderzoek

This book takes the approach of Erving Goffman – and its fundamental concepts including frames, stigma, definition of the situation, front and back stages, role distance, communication out of character, interaction rituals – as its focus, and shows h

Taking a balanced perspective and applied approach, this text encourages you to think critically about issues in fundraising and philanthropy to prepare you for a career in the nonprofit sector.

Addressing a common question posed by researchers, this book introduces readers to power analysis and sample size determination and clearly illustrates why sample sizes need to be sufficiently large to give good power properties and low error rates.

Guides educators toward an understanding of the socio-cultural characteristics of classrooms and why such an understanding is critical to fostering academic engagement of African American students.

Provides a unified framework for both single-level and multilevel modeling of ordinal categorical data

A growing body of evidence suggests that many traditional grading practices are ineffective and potentially damaging. This book provides teachers with practical alternatives to traditional methods, and guiding questions to help them decide on the be

Prepares social science students to conduct their own social network analysis (SNA) by covering basic methodological tools along with illustrative examples from various fields.

Providing readers with an introduction to how to conduct a research synthesis of literature, this Fifth Edition has new material on the use of the internet and other new developments in technology, including new statistics for describing meta-analyti

This book scaffolds teachers as they learn to develop effective text dependent questions across ELA, science, and social studies/history with the goal of assisting students to read closely and comprehend deeply.

This practical, easy-to-use handbook offers a comprehensive plan, guiding general educators, special educators, administrators, and school psychologists through the eligibility and evaluation stages that ensure students get the best services and supp

Through survey collection and shared experiences this book captures the problem-solving, creativity and innovation that is currently occurring in classrooms, supported by reflections and conclusion by leading thinkers in Leadership.

This accessible book details the competencies, functions, and strategies that help members benefit from a positive group culture as they pursue their own learning.

This book offers school counselors an effective and efficient approach to helping students through the use of Solution-Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC).

Using case studies and country profiles, this book places issues into social and cultural contexts and encourages students to think critically about the topics presented

Putting an emphasis on using in-depth interviews in qualitative research, this book shows readers how to expand the scope of their research

Introducing research methods as an integrated set of techniques to investigate social issues and concerns common to social work practice, this book connects research methods to evidence-based practice.

Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous research methodologies.

This comprehensive book provides guidelines for applying mixed-methods research in the development of culturally specific intervention programs and the subsequent evaluation.

As well as using concept maps, mind maps and other visual techniques used to consider theory-based inquiry, this text combines an exploration of the core elements of 'theory' with relevant theoretical examples drawn from biology, psychology, sociolog

Provides 89 highly structured activities which encourage application-based learning of how to design and conduct evaluation studies.

Guides readers through an understanding of how to create and sustain school cultures that value dispositional learning; ideally suited for use with Common Core implementation initiatives at school and district level.

Are you ready for a professional learning program that makes a lasting difference in the quality of teaching within your organization? This book enables education leaders to work collaboratively with faculty to develop and implement a five-part plan

Based on the lessons of World Class Learners this new series will show educators at all levels what it takes to help students be more insightful, creative, communicative, technically skilled, and decisive.

Taking a humanistic perspective and following an evidence-based approach, the book presents basic case conceptualization skills and is followed by a specific chapter on the most common disorders diagnosed by counselors.

With new coverage of how conceptual frameworks are conceptualized and developed and of a student's perspective on the role of conceptual frameworks, this book presents conceptual frameworks as a mechanism - process and product.

Providing a comprehensive, research- and theory-based approach to sexuality counseling, Sexuality Counseling is grounded in an integrative, multi-level conceptual framework that addresses the various levels at which individuals experience sexuality.

Organized around the progressive developmental stages - from childhood through to older age, the authors identify, chapter by chapter, the issues which counseling interventions can address at each developmental stage.

This engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive text examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of life.

This invaluable resource presents a clear process for using video to promote professional growth and teacher effectiveness.

This book provides a comprehensive model of systemic school improvement that is designed around four, high-leverage practices.

Inspiring and practical, get the entrepreneurial tools you need to successfully conduct business in a global and competitive world.

A practical guide to designing, implementing, and sustaining community-based learning in schools.

This book examines the fundamental theoretical perspectives of the aging process with an emphasis on the healthy aspects of aging.

Rising East Asia by Chien-pin Li is a core text for the Politics of East Asia course that covers the economic, political, and security concerns of China, Japan, and Korea since the end of World War II.

The comprehensiveness of this text, coupled with the opportunity to learn from the most prominent theorists and leadership scholars today, makes this an indispensable text for courses in leadership.