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The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their “return on investment” in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges. Economic Evaluation in Education: Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods and Applications in its previous editions) is the only full-length book to provide readers with the step-by-step methods they need to plan and implement a benefit-cost analysis in education. Authors Henry M. Levin, Patrick J. McEwan, Clive Belfield, Alyshia Brooks Bowden, and Robert Shand examine a range of issues, including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs; how to measure effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and how to incorporate cost evaluations into the decision-making process. The updates to the Third Edition reflect the considerable methodological development in the evaluation literature, and the greater empiricism practiced by education researchers, to help readers learn to apply more advanced methods to their own analyses.

Taking school leaders on a reflective journey, this book will develop an awareness of the courage required to meet the high expectations placed on leaders by students, parents and staff and will empower them to take charge of building the courage required to do the job well every day.

Research shows that classroom discussion has a major effect on student learning. How do we get students to talk more? Challenging Learning Through Dialogue is for all educators who aim to use effective classroom dialogue to engage students.

A practical, assets-based guide to educating students with interrupted education and helping these students build the skills necessary for academic success and also to develop the internal resilience needed for long-term social and emotional health.

If the old adage that "all politics is local" is even partially true, then cities are important centers for political activity and for the delivery of public goods and services. This is a reference guide to topics in urban politics and policy in the United States.

Explores the field of corporate reputation in the format of an encyclopedic reference. This book comprehensively overviews concepts and techniques for identifying, building, measuring, monitoring, evaluating, maintaining, valuing, living up to and/or changing corporate reputations.

Little Bites of Big Data for Public Policy brings to life the quest to make better policy with better evidence. This brief book frames the big puzzles and, through lively stories and clear examples, provides a valuable how-to guide for producing analysis that works—that speaks persuasively to policy makers, in the language they can best hear, on the problems for which they most need answers. Author Donald F. Kettl brings together the cutting-edge streams of data analytics and data visualization to frame the big puzzles and find ways to make the pieces fit together. By taking little bites of a wide variety of useful data, and then by analyzing it in ways that decision makers will find most helpful, analysts can be much more effective in shaping solutions to the most important problems governments face. 

This book delivers a nuanced analysis of a momentous cycle of political contests. Whether discussing particular races or taking a broader look at the national trends, the book engages students with political drama, while weaving in scholarship and expert analysis.

Whether annotating a text, writing a paragraph, an essay, or response on a test, students will know how to support their thinking after reading this book.

This book presents practical strategies and tools for increasing student achievement through the collective actions of educators.

This text builds fundamental knowledge and helps to clarify a lot of the misunderstanding around testing in a conversational tone. It is framed around practical actions that can be taken to strengthen assessment literacy.

Action research is a popular form of professional development and incorporates qualitative and quantitative methods, reflective practice, and educational pedagogy. The authors shows how individual teachers and teacher teams can work collaboratively to identify and research problems related to the school's goals.

This is the beginner's guide for K-12 educators who want to know how to integrate coding and computational thinking into their curriculum.

With coverage of ethical standards from six different associations, the text addresses ethical issues and principles in social work, counseling, psychology, and marriage and family therapy.

Presents the fundamentals of regression analysis, from its meaning to uses, in a concise, easy-to-read, and non-technical style.

Provides full coverage of the wide range of multivariate topics that graduate students across the social and behavioral sciences encounter, using a conceptual, non-mathematical, approach.

The authors present a practical vision of what it looks like to engage in student-centered coaching across a rich array of contexts.

This book offers guidance on reimagining stakeholder roles, research on best practices, principles for designing policies, and messages from thought leaders inside and outside the field of education.

This text is a journey into disproportionality through understanding biases that create barriers for vulnerable populations. It gives adaptive strategies for systemic change and technical skills for using data to promote equity.

It defines a process of "inside-out" growth that helps develop culturally proficient educators with the skills needed to support equity and transform schools.

A practical book that shows how both Excel (R) and SPSS (R) can be used for analyzing data for human service evaluation.

Show students at any level how to plan, shoot, and edit their own ethnographic videos within 3 weeks using desktop technology and widely available software.

Describing how autoethnographers go about collecting, analyzing and reporting data, this book provides an historical and theoretical background, followed by methods chapters that guide students through the process.

This practical book uses a step-by-step analysis of realistic examples to help students understand the theory and code for implementing propensity score analysis with the R statistical language.

The Social Life of Gender provides a comprehensive approach to gender as an organizing social relation and presents a critical sociology based on the unique insights gleaned from the study of gender.

A complete introduction to the latest research findings in child and adolescent counselling

Coverage of all the core aspects of Criminal Justice is accompanied by details of a wide range of insights and experiences of real world practitioners to really bring the subject to life, providing students with a resource they can rely on throughout their degree

This unique resource provides educators with the tools they need to help all students reach higher levels of achievement. It is grounded in an assets-based approach that helps teachers to better understand and build on the unique talents that diverse students bring to the the classroom.

This is the first book in a two-book set written as a month-to-month curriculum to guide conversations between mentors and new teachers.

This book provides detailed guidance on to how to address classroom behaviour through instructional teaching strategies.