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A comprehensive look at the process of selecting, assessing and developing teachers, which expands on its predecessor "The Handbook of Teacher Evaluation". It reflects the changes in this field during the last decade, and has contributions from over 30 experts in the area.

Examining caregiving issues from a multigenerational, family life cycle perspective, this volume deals with the broad spectrum of chronic illnesses that necessitate family caregiving throughout the lifespan and discusses responses to these challenges by both caregiving families and caregiving systems.Part One addresses the caregiving paradigm and the relationship of family caregiving research to family life studies. Part Two examines conceptual aspects of caregiving, ranging from the expansion of the caregiving paradigm, caregiving processes and tasks, to the positive aspects of caregiving. Part Three emphasizes how family caregivers are affected by the connection (or lack of it) to macro-level systems.

Introduces the concept of expert systems development as a model for the acquisition, representation and validation of knowledge about relatively limited domains. Case studies derive from the authors' own development experiences in the social sciences.

Significance testing - a core technique in statistics for hypothesis testing - is introduced in this volume. Mohr first reviews what is meant by sampling and probability distributions and then examines in-depth normal and t-tests of significance. The uses and misuses of significance testing are also explored.

Microcomputer Applications in Qualitative Research critically surveys the many ways microcomputers and programmes can be used to further qualitative social research. The author focuses on the liabilities and benefits of using this technology for research purposes and provides a generic, conceptual approach rather than a how-to guide to specific computers and programmes. Underlying every chapter is the conviction that microcomputer technology can only be useful in qualitative studies if its limitations, including its potentially negative or constraining impact, are kept in mind. The impact of microcomputer technology on qualitative research is considered in its relation to society as a whole.

Krippendorff introduces social scientists to information theory and explains its application for structural modeling. He discusses key topics such as: how to confirm an information theory model; its use in exploratory research; and how it compares with other approaches such as network analysis, path analysis, chi square and analysis of variance.Information Theory simplifies and clarifies a complex but powerful statistical method for analysing multivariate qualitative data. It will serve both as a textbook and as a sourcebook for researchers in communication theory, information theory and systems theory.

Explains the most widely used methods for analyzing cross-classified data on occupational origins and destinations. Hout reviews classic definitions, models, and sources of mobility data, as well as elementary operations for analyzing mobility tables. Tabular and graphic displays illustrate the discussion throughout.

Clearly reviews the properties of important contemporary measures of association and correlation. Liebetrau devotes full chapters to measures for nominal, ordinal, and continuous (interval) data, paying special attention to the sampling distributions needed to determine levels of significance and confidence intervals. Valuable discussions also focus on the relationships between various measures, the sampling properties of their estimators and the comparative advantages and disadvantages of different approaches.

This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work.

The new edition of this major work offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. Mowlana places the analysis of global mass media and other forms of communication within a critical overview of international and intercultural relations.

Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures.

Provides guidance on how to apply to medical school, including the most common pitfalls and misconceptions, and how to avoid them.

This text is the first in a series sponsored by the "Administrative Science Quarterly", designed to focus and stimulate thinking on those areas of administrative science which have most profoundly shaped the development of organizational theory and behaviour.

A guide to the latest thinking in the foundations of services.

Uses the statistical analysis programme SPSS to analyze patient outcomes data and create graphs summarizing this data.

Provides the best of contemporary findings and summarizes how past research contributes to current thought. Within each topically organized chapter, which all begin with a concise overview statement and end with a personal summary, this title highlights material of special importance and concludes major sections with a summary.

This completely rewritten edition of the bestselling The Employment Interview Handbook provides a comprehensive review of various streams of research into employment interviewing, including: the validity and fairness of interview outcomes; assessment of person-organization `it'; factors affecting the interviewer's decision-making process; and applicant perspectives on the process of interviewing, including impression management.The book concludes with a summary of the volume's implications for theory building, research methods and effective practice.

This volume explores in detail the relations between management knowledge, power and practice in a world where globalization highlights, rather than obscures, the locally specific nature of many management recipes. Current management theories are examined in the discussion.

Identifies the cognitive and motivational influences on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergroup processes that lead to racism. This title establishes a link between public discourse on race and social scientific analysis.

Contemporary thinking about management is still frequently presented as a set of universal, eternal verities. In this fascinating book Roy Jacques presents a discursive history of industrial work relationships in the United States which powerfully demonstrates that they are not.

This volume provides information on juvenile violence in America. It also examines: the historical response of the US to juvenile delinquency; the seriousness of the problem; and the public policies available to deal with it. The author also discusses proposed modifications in delinquency policies.

Presents an analysis of the vocabulary of racism (prejudice, discrimination, segregation and violence), arguing that racism is not reducible to these elementary forms. This title shows how the experiences of racism in America and anti-Semitism in Europe can be analyzed to provide an understanding of the complex transition from race to racism.

Offers a strategic account of Supreme Court decision making. This title includes data culled from the Court's public records and from the private papers of Justices Brennan, Douglas, Marshall, and Powell that provide empirical evidence to support the central argument, while numerous examples from the justices' papers animate the work.

This third edition of the author's award-winning book about curriculum, content standards, teaching, and testing keeps a solid focus on today's critical issues of accountability and best classroom practices for teaching and learning.

A good introduction to crime types and criminology to provide students with a grounding to the start of their studies.

This edited volume provides cutting edge research in an easily accesible format.

Administrators will find that this updated edition of the bestseller is packed with techniques for projecting a positive school image and strengthening the four-way partnership between schools, parents, community, and the private sector.