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In Psychological Testing in Everyday Life: History, Science, and Practice, Karen Goldfinger encourages critical thinking about the use of psychological tests by helping students to understand how they may interact with tests in their own lives. Organized in the form of an applied casebook, each chapter presents the complex issues that arise when using psychological tests in a variety of settings, providing a narrow and deep view of psychological testing practices historically and into the present. Written in a narrative style, Goldfinger''s text engages readers, provokes their interest, and brings the material to life. This lively and applied approach will help reluctant students understand the importance of learning about psychological testing and engage them in critical thinking and meaningful discussion about the science and practice of psychological testing and assessment.

Forming effective arguments is essential to students' success in academics and in life. This book's engaging lessons offer an innovative approach to teaching this critical and transferable skill.

This book provides several techniques to help move from a top-down approach to management to a new style of "responsive organization" based on flexible roles, shared authority, and continuous learning and change.

Drawing from the challenges the author has seen in supervising dissertation students, the book breaks down the dissertation chapter into smaller pieces, providing specific and detailed advice on how to frame the chapter, identify a research setting, work with data sources, develop data collection instruments, articulate a data analysis procedure, and adopt a reflexive stance on research roles.

This book highlights key actions school leaders can undertake right away to inform and improve their practice.

The American Drug Culture uses sociological and other perspectives to examine drug and alcohol use in U.S. society. The text is arranged topically, rather than by categories of drugs, and explores diverse contexts of drug use including popular culture; sexuality; the legal and criminal justice systems; other social institutions; and mental and physical health. It features more coverage of alcohol, the most widely-used drug in the U.S., than other texts for this course. Authors Thomas S. Weinberg, Gerhard Falk, and Ursula Falk include case studies from their field research to give you empathetic insights into the situation of those with substance and alcohol use disorders.

Across seven sections - including Neoliberal Economies, The State and Regulation, and Neoliberalism in Crisis - this resource brings together a global team of experts to explore the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship in the field

In the Sixth Edition of Media Analysis Techniques, author Arthur Asa Berger once again provides students with a clearly written, user-friendly, hands-on guide to media criticism. The book empowers students to make their own analyses of the media rather than just accept how others interpret the media.

This research-based book brings tough Standards for Mathematical Practice 3 standards for mathematical argumentation and critical reasoning alive - all within a thoroughly explained four-part model that covers generating cases, conjecturing, justifying, and concluding.

This book will provide doable, practical ideas and strategies that can be put to use right away in a user friendly format to address individual and collective needs of district leaders, school leaders, both students and adults, and community leaders.

This book will show teachers what engages students, and how to do it in their classrooms everyday. Each chapter includes an overview of the strategy (with relevant research), and several lesson ideas for implementing it in the classroom.

This book offers completely new and updated classroom examples, teaching tips, and sample lessons aligned to standards to help teachers begin to use these tools effectively.

This guidebook includes the tools and information to help parents become more effectively engaged and involved in their children's education.

Facing issues of race and privilege with a clear, compassionate gaze, this book helps teachers illuminate blind spots, overcome unintentional bias, and reach the students who need them the most.

This book explores the professional journeys of well-known psychologists and counselors, examining factors that contributed to their successes and struggles in the field.

Students in social science courses communicate, socialize, shop, learn, and work online. When they are asked to collect data for course projects they are often drawn to social media platforms and other online sources of textual data. There are many software packages and programming languages available to help students collect data online, and there are many texts designed to help with different forms of online research, from surveys to ethnographic interviews. But there is no textbook available that teaches students how to construct a viable research project based on online sources of textual data such as newspaper archives, site user comment archives, digitized historical documents, or social media user comment archives. Gabe Ignatow and Rada F. Mihalcea's new text An Introduction to Text Mining will be a starting point for undergraduates and first-year graduate students interested in collecting and analyzing textual data from online sources, and will cover the most critical issues that students must take into consideration at all stages of their research projects, including: ethical and philosophical issues; issues related to research design; web scraping and crawling; strategic data selection; data sampling; use of specific text analysis methods; and report writing.

With more than 50,000 books sold, this resource for teachers and school teams will open illuminating and productive new visions of how to improve grading practices.

This new text provides students with the background and the process of statistical analysis along with the nuts and bolts tools for applying specific statistical tools to data from research studies.

Packed full of useful exercises, checklists, and how-to sections, this robust lab manual gives students hands-on guidance and practice analyzing their own psychological research.

Statistics for Research in Psychology offers an intuitive approach to statistics based on estimation for interpreting research in psychology.

Written by leading scholars in the field, this text covers significant aspects of leadership thought, key areas such as followership, relational leadership, and team leadership, and delves into timely topics such as social cognition, gender, power, identity.

Offers a balanced approach that links HR concepts to technology and demonstrates how HR professionals can apply these practices in their day-to-day work.

The Washington Information Directory (WID) is one of the most historically successful publications at CQ Press. It is the essential one-stop source for information on U.S. governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizations. These descriptions are not boilerplate advertising material from the organizations; rather, they are hand-crafted by a talented freelance research team. The guide pulls together 55 organization charts for federal agencies, congressional resources related to each chapter topic, hotline and contact information for various specific areas of interest, and an extensive list of active congressional caucuses and contact details.

This ground-breaking book combines the benefits of classic literature with the motivational power of choice reading to create vibrant reading environments.

Social Media Strategy: Tools for Professionals and Organizations by Phillip G. Clampitt, shows professionals and organizations how to use social media more effectively and strategically. With a focus on what makes social media unique among communication platforms, this book offers practical guidance on creating, implementing, and evaluating social media strategies and tactics. Social media is constantly evolving, so Social Media Strategy focuses on enduring strategic principles and uses case studies and exercises throughout to help readers build the fundamental competencies needed by today’s social media managers.

Argumentation: The Art of Civil Advocacy

The Fourth Edition of The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment provides readers with the most up-to-date theory, research, and best practices in the field of child abuse and neglect.

This book unpacks what it means to effectively lead an intelligent, responsive school that is a learning environment for all.

Inspired by the culture of educational leadership in Finland, a consistent top-performer in international student assessment, this beneficial resource presents easy-to-adopt strategies to improve overall educational performance.