Information Age Publishing: 1717 books
Particulars and Universals in Clinical and Developmental Psychology
Critical Reflections A book honoring Roger Bibace
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
What sparks a psychologist’s interest in a certain phenomenon? Is it a symptom, a syndrome, a treatment, the usual, the exceptional, the group, the individual? An epistemologist, for example, focuses on the group and delivers group results. The clinician has to focus on the patient, although the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
The purpose of this volume is to present a selection of chapters that reflect current issues relating to children’s socialization processes that help them become successful members of their society. From birth children are unique in their rates of growth and development, including the development...
Stress and Quality of Working Life
The Positive and The Negative
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book offers twelve chapters organized into three major sections that address occupational stress and quality of working life. The authors are an internationally renowned team of scholarresearchpractitioners who are grounded in applied science and clinical practice. Section 1 includes five chapters...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This edited volume contributes to a burgeoning field of critical scholarship on the news media and education. This scholarship is based on an understanding that the news media has increasingly applied a neoliberal template that mediates knowledge and action about education. This book calls into question...
Technology Enhanced Innovative Assessment
Development, Modeling, and Scoring From an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Assessment innovation tied to technology is greatly needed in a wide variety of assessment applications. This book adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to learn from advances in developing technology enhanced innovative assessments from multiple fields. The book chapters address the development...
TechnologyBased Education
Bringing Researchers and Practitioners Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
This volume will highlight papers presented at the second Nebraska Symposium on Information Technology in Education. With chapters focusing on the latest research findings and theoretical principles for using technology in education, the volume will extend findings from current research on technologymediated...
The Concept of Validity
Revisions, New Directions and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Validity is widely held to be the most important criterion for an assessment. Nevertheless, assessment professionals have disagreed about the meaning of validity almost from the introduction of the term as applied to testing about 100 years ago. Over the years, the best and brightest people in assessment...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The goal of Volume VII of Research in Science Education is to examine the relationship between science inquiry and servicelearning. Its primary intent is to bridge the gaps between research and practice. The volume is meant to be useful to science and service?learning researchers and practitioners such...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This volume of the series Research in Human Resource Management (HRM) focuses on a number of important issues in HRM and OB including performance appraisal, political skill, gratitude, psychological contracts, the philosophical underpinnings of HRM, pay and compensation messages, and electronic human...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Enhancing Writing Skills includes conference presentation papers from the Carnegie Writers, Inc. 1st Annual Conference. The anthology provides published and aspiring writers resources for sustaining, enhancing and evaluating their writing skills. The chapter themes focus on genrebased writing, creativity...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Researchers, educators, professional organizations, administrators, parents, and policy makers have increased their involvement in the assessment and evaluation of early childhood education programs. This interest has developed swiftly during the last decades. The National Association for the Education...
Making It Work
Educating the Blind/Visually Impaired Student in the Regular School
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
“Making It Work is destined to be the definitive guide for years to come on how to make the regular school education a successful experience for blind/visually impaired children. With chapters flowing logically and full of detailed, useful information, it will be an essential handbook for school...
Exploring Values Through Literature, Multimedia, and Literacy Events
Making Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Exploring Values Through Multimedia, Literature and Literacy Events was written by teachers and educational researchers for classrooms and schools interested in developing learning communities that develop critical and compassionate future citizens. Through the use of specific multimedia, literature...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
There are many teaching and curriculum programs that attempt to make education relevant to the wider sociocultural environment of learners. Volume 5 focuses on research on curriculum and teaching from a sociocultural perspective. Authors will discuss exemplary examples of research on curriculum initiatives,...