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Covers the basic principles of when and how to use focus groups, the applicability of focus group interviews to survey research and other methods, general issues in the use of focus groups, the specific problems of focus groups with different populations or settings and an agenda for future development of the method.

Strengthen gifted girls' potential by exploring characteristics of girls' giftedness; factors affecting development; issues of resilience, self-efficacy, and personal ethics; and the importance of supportive adults.

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Presents a fresh vision of communication that offers little-known and amazingly effective techniques for the novice speaker and stage-savvy pro. This title provides practical, research-based tools that apply to various professional communication, speaking at small staff meetings, and delivering a keynote address to a ballroom full of people.

Emerges from a concept of curriculum and instruction as a diverse landscape defined and bounded by schools, school boards and their communities, policy, teacher education, and academic research.

To truly understand the substance and value of any great philosopher's work, students must examine political theory against the backdrop of history, and the surrounding literature. This title provides students with the framework they need to fully appreciate the original texts they are reading and apply the concepts they are learning.

Combines time series and cross-sectional data to provide the researcher with an efficient method of analysis and improved estimates of the population being studied. With more relevant data available this analysis technique allows the sample size to be increased, which ultimately yields a more effective study.

Aims to guide researchers in not only how to think in terms of the feminist perspective, but also how to translate their research into feminist practice and analysis. This book offers ten angles for feminist analysis, or ten things to keep in mind when doing fieldwork and developing an analysis.

Promotes the overarching business philosophy of customer/market focus, by emphasizing the need for market research to provide the insights required for making decisions. This book identifies such troubling trends as biased sample answers on long questionnaires, and "professionals" whose job is to skew focus group responses.

Provides practical guidelines on how companies can manage supply chains, addressing the role of all the traditional business functions in supply chain management and suggest how the adoption of a supply chain management approach can affect business strategy and corporate performance.

This popular and critically acclaimed Handbook is now available in paperback.

Written using simple language, this book guides students through the statistics actually used in most empirical research in communication and the social sciences. It is a work on communication that includes details on statistical analysis of data with a full set of data analysis instructions based on SPSS 12 and Excel.

Provides educators with a guide to some of the common mental health issues and symptomatology that they are likely to confront in their daily work with students. It assists educators in recognizing symptoms of crisis and provides them tools that helps them take the proper steps toward addressing the mental health issues of their students.

Understanding Human Rights: An Exercise Book provides a concise, hands-on roadmap for learning about human rights within a social work context. By illustrating the importance of human rights to the social work profession with understandable explanations and exercises, author Elisabeth Reichert highlights why social workers need to embrace the concept of human rights.

Most books on measurement present a statistical orientation or an orientation toward measurement theory. Although these approaches are valuable, Measurement Error and Research Design is motivated by the lack of literature that enhances understanding of measurement error, its sources, and its effects on responses.

Drawing together the broad range of theoretical issues posed in the new study of masculinity, contributors from diverse backgrounds address in this volume the different disciplinary roots of theories of masculinity - sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality studies. Subsequent chapters theoretically model many issues central to the study of men - power, ethnicity, feminism, homophobia - or develop theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men including the military and the men's movement.

Why do men batter their wives? How do women define their experiences of violence? Is wife abuse related to child abuse? How do medical authorities react to wife abuse? This volume brings together well-known academics, activists and clinicians who approach these questions from a distinctly feminist perspective.

Formerly a SkyLight PublicationLearn how to tap into practical strategies and techniques for developing and nurturing the full spectrum of intelligences identified by researcher Howard Gardner.

This book introduces readers to the basic models of neural networks and compares and contrasts these models using other statistical models. Through the use of examples that can be computed by hand or with a simple calculator, the authors describe and explain the various models.

Mentzer and Moon apply their 25 years of sales forecasting management research to their techniques for sales forecasting. They cover managing the process, performance measurement, regression analysis, qualitative sales forecasting, and forecasting systems. The second edition has been reorganized and includes new insights on qualitative forecasting,

A guide to survey research.

The place of emotions in research poses many dilemmas. Ignoring emotions can have significant costs for analysis and for competence as researchers. This volume explores the links between emotion and analysis: how the feelings of fieldworkers - about their professional identity, their work and the people they study - inform analyses. The conclusion offers an extended example from one of the authors' field studies to highlight how the emotions of the fieldworkers can enhance qualitative analyses.

'The book could open up a fruitful controversy in social gerontology and should become part of the library of every social gerontologist' -- Contemporary Sociology'A unique contribution to cross-cultural studies in aging' -- Choice'Worthwhile reading for any human service professional dealing with the aged' -- Social Work

Provides a foundation for research on the communication of sports. This volume outlines the parameters of the communication of sports and points to major issues that need to be addressed in the relationship between sports and media. It examines the theoretical, cultural and historical issues, and the production of media sports programming.

These procedures, collectively known as discriminant analysis, allow a researcher to study the difference between two or more groups of objects with respect to several variables simultaneously, determining whether meaningful differences exist between the groups and identifying the discriminating power of each variable.