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Next Generation Performance Management
The Triumph of Science Over Myth and Superstition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
There is no HRrelated topic more popular in the business press than performance management (PM). There has been an explosion in writing on this topic in the past 5 years, condemning it as a failure and calling for fundamental change. The vast majority of organizations use the same basic process which...
CrossCultural Psychology
Why Culture Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
CrossCultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters addresses both established and very recent research in cultural and comparative crosscultural psychology. The book is written by Professor Krum Krumov of Sofia University in Bulgaria and Professor Knud S. Larsen from Oregon State University. The authors...
Emerging Web 3.0/Semantic Web Applications in Higher Education
Growing Personalization and Wider Interconnections in Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Web is evolving from a place where a prodigious amount of text and images are stored to a place where educational and other needs are serviced. The Web is becoming increasingly automated with functions that previously required human action undertaken automatically moving learners and other users...
Left Behind in the Race to the Top
Realities of School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Public education is suffering attacks that are well funded and extraordinarily complex and multifaceted. These conditions make it difficult for educators and citizens to gather the information they need to mount meaningful resistance, especially since mainstream media tends to be uncritically supportive...
Dystopia & Education
Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an Age of UtopiaGoneWrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an age of Utopia Gone Wrong provides an asofyet unexplored critical perspective for examining contemporary educational theory, praxis, and policy with particular reference to the current state of dehumanizing and often oppressive policy...
Views from Inside
Languages, Cultures, and Schooling for K?12 Educators
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The goal of this text is to help teachers in diverse classrooms understand the importance of students’ culture, languages, and schooling experiences to curriculum, assessment, and student achievement. Readers will learn about aspects of specific cultures and languages that are important to their...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The goal of this volume of Research in Science Education is to examine the relationship between science education policy and practice and the special role that science education researchers play in influencing policy. It has been suggested that the science education research community is isolated...
Evaluating The Undergraduate Research Experience
A Guide for Program Directors and Principal Investigators
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The current movement toward more and better research experiences for undergraduates has spread across disciplines in the arts, humanities, science, mathematics, and engineering beyond the “research university” to the full range of postsecondary institutions of higher education. Along with this...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
The Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education provides a comprehensive overview of the field. This publication includes seven anchor essays (5000 words) that cover the following topics: the history of the middle school movement; academically excellent curriculum, instruction, and assessment; developmental...
by Paris S. Strom, Robert D. Strom
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The tools of communication technology have transformed socialization and education of adolescents. They are the first generation to be growing up with the Internet, cell phones, iPods, computers, electronic hand helds and satellite television. Building friendships and social networks are common experiences...
by Ken Haley, Karen Heise
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
This book will be a practical guide to developing and implementing online courses. It is based on a model now in use at Paris Junior College in Paris, TX which has often resulted in retention rates of over 90%. It will be a comprehensive practitioner’s guide including information on retention and...
Evaluation Use and DecisionMaking in Society
A Tribute to Marvin C. Alkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This volume addresses a fundamental and highly debated issue in the evaluation field the use of evaluation information for decisionmaking. Chapter authors honor the contributions of Professor Marvin C. Alkin to the evaluation use literature and advance our thinking on the topic by exploring a wide...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Critical qualitative research informs social education through a lens that ensures the investigation of issues in education tied to power and privilege, ultimately leading to advocacy and activism. The concept of critical is increasingly challenged in this age of neoliberal reform; nevertheless, critical...
The Next Generation of Testing
Common Core Standards, Smarter?Balanced, PARCC, and the Nationwide Testing Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Race To The Top (RTTP) federal education policy fostered a new generation of state tests. This policy advocated adopting common core standards which set a higher level of learning targets for students in the US K?12 education. These standards are intended to assess higher order thinking skills...