Robert D : 904 books
Self-Efficacy
Raising the Bar for All Students
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The fourth edition of this highly praised book includes coverage of evidence-based education and No Child Left Behind. Like the previous editions, it offers authoritative and balanced overviews to help you make distinctions between innovative programs backed up by sound research support and “faddish” ideas which lack a research base.
Block Scheduling
Bringing All the Data Together for Continuous School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This bestseller shows you how block schedules can enhance learning and instruction, increase opportunities for students, and improve teachers' performance. It provides practical tools for planning and implementation.
Teaching in the Block
Strategies for Engaging Active Learners
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This bestseller describes alternatives to lecturing, traditional questioning, and individual pencil and paper tasks. It offers practical advice on how teachers can harness the potential of the extended period.
The Education of Richard Riley
A Case Study of Business Involvement in Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Prior to 1983, South Carolinas public education system was ranked 49th out of the fifty states in terms of standardized testing, school funding, parental involvement and other measured criteria. With several corporations moving their corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities into the state,...
by Molyn Leszcz, Jon Hunter, Paula Ravitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
A quick-reference, multi-media guide to practical psychotherapy skills that improve client outcomes.
Rigorously field-tested by on-the-ground clinicians, these practical guidebooks—sold separately or as a set—provide easy-to-use, evidence-based summaries of five core therapy techniques....
Flexible Regression and Smoothing
Using GAMLSS in R
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book is about learning from data using the Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape (GAMLSS). GAMLSS extends the Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) and Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) to accommodate large complex datasets, which are increasingly prevalent.
In particular,...
Exploring Engineering
An Introduction to Engineering and Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Exploring Engineering, Fourth Edition: An Introduction to Engineering and Design, winner of a 2017 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty),presents the emerging challenges engineers face in a wide range of areas as they work to help improve our quality of life. In this classic textbook, the authors explain...
Vocabulary Assessment to Support Instruction
Building Rich Word-Learning Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Vocabulary development is essential for learning, but conventional vocabulary assessments lack the range and flexibility to support K–12 classroom teachers in making instructional decisions. Drawing on linguistics, educational psychology, and educational measurement, this book offers a fresh perspective...
by Ricardo D Lopez, Robert C Frohn
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples. This is a specialized application and both these topics have evolved rapidly in the past decade. This evolution is not in the...
Medical Biochemistry
Human Metabolism in Health and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Metabolism includes various pathways of chemical reactions; understanding these pathways leads to an improved knowledge of the causes, preventions, and cures for human diseases. Medical Biochemistry: Human Metabolism in Health and Disease provides a concise yet thorough explanation of human metabolism...
Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics
Activist Nation Rising
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising demonstrates the rising role that alternative media play in contemporary mainstream political communication. The rise of the modern Internet and social media platforms have allowed for the proliferation of alternative media across...
Developing Number Knowledge
Assessment,Teaching and Intervention with 7-11 year olds
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Following the great success of the earlier books, this fourth book in the Mathematics Recovery series equips teachers with detailed pedagogical knowledge and resources for teaching number to 7 to 11-year olds.
Drawing on extensive programs of research, curriculum development, and teacher development,...
by Robert L. Shewfelt, Alicia Orta-Ramirez, Andrew D. Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Written as an introductory food science textbook that excites students and fosters learning, the first edition of Introducing Food Science broke new ground. With an easy-to-read format and innovative sections such as Looking Back, Remember This!, and Looking Ahead, it quickly became popular with students and professors alike. This newly r
Mapping Crime in Its Community Setting
Event Geography Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Gathering accurate data probably constitutes one of the most important aspects of crime investigation and prevention. How do we put the data to use? How can we improve our methods of handling the information we collect? By describing a project for the development and implementation of a computerized...