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Building Evaluation Capacity
Activities for Teaching and Training
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The Second Edition of Building Evaluation Capacity provides 89 highly structured activities which require minimal instructor preparation and encourage application-based learning of how to design and conduct evaluation studies. Ideal for use in program evaluation courses, professional development workshops,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
New ideas change the world. From social movements to scientific discovery the power of an idea is to reshape the world, who we are, and how we live. Changes in the increasingly dynamic competitive environment require a focus on what should be done, not just what is currently done. The inspiration...
Executive Coaching
A Practitioner's Guide to Creating Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Executive Coaching is a high-value learning and development opportunity offered to critical senior executives. Its objective is to help them make strategic shifts in their professions, careers and lives. This book is an in-depth exploration of this transformational practice.
Executive Coaching:...
Action Research
Improving Schools and Empowering Educators
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Craig Mertler’s Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators introduces practicing educators to the process of conducting classroom-based action research. Practical and comprehensive, the book focuses on research methods and procedures that educators can use in their everyday practice....
Teaching Students With High-Incidence Disabilities
Strategies for Diverse Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
To ensure that all students receive quality instruction, Teaching Students with High-Incidence Disabilities prepares preservice teachers to teach students with learning disabilities, emotional behavioral disorders, intellectual disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity, and high functioning autism. ...
Foundations of Psychological Testing
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Foundations of Psychological Testing: A Practical Approach by Leslie A. Miller and Robert L. Lovler presents a clear introduction to the basics of psychological testing as well as psychometrics and statistics. Aligned with the 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, this practical...
by Thomas A. Stetz, Robert L. Lovler, Leslie A. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Student Study Guide for Foundations of Psychological Testing has 15 chapters corresponding to those in the main textbook and follows a consistent structure for quick and easy access to key information. To help students understand and apply material related to psychological testing, authors Thomas...
Sampling Essentials
Practical Guidelines for Making Sampling Choices
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Written for students taking research methods courses, this text provides a thorough overview of sampling principles. The author gives detailed, nontechnical descriptions and guidelines with limited presentation of formulas to help students reach basic research decisions, such as whether to choose...
by Ms Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Ms Kate Leonard, Ms Nasa Begum
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
'This is a timely and well crafted text which is to be commended, with strong chapters from knowledgeable and committed authors. A stimulating read and one which will be of considerable use to those with responsibility for leading and managing learning in social care and social work' - Keith Popple,...
Needs Assessment Phase I
Getting Started (Book 2)
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
"The Authors have done a good job of conveying the nuts and bolts of the process and problem situations that can arise from political and social conditions."
—Stephanie Brzuzy, Xavier University
"The authors offer a nice overview of the process involved in developing and conducting...
Business Transformation Strategies
The Strategic Leader as Innovation Manager
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
A resource for industry professionals and consultants, this book on corporate strategy lays down the theories and models for revitalizing companies in the face of global recession.
It discusses cutting-edge concepts, constructs, paradigms, theories, models, and cases of corporate strategic...
Leading Organizations through Transition
Communication and Cultural Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 1999
This book addresses the role of communication in cultural change efforts within organizations, especially during periods of transition, mergers, technological innovations and globalization.
Social Network Analysis for Ego-Nets
Social Network Analysis for Actor-Centred Networks
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes discrete individual actors and their contacts as its starting point, is one of the most widely used approaches in the field. This is the first textbook to take readers through each stage of ego-net research, from conception, through research...
Social Network Analysis
History, Theory and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
We live in a world that is paradoxically both small and vast; each of us is embedded in local communities and yet we are only a few 'links' away from anyone else in the world.
This engaging book represents these interdependencies' positive and negative consequences, their multiple effects...