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Award-winning author, teacher, and advisor Gregory J. Privitera offers a brief and engaging introduction to the field. Practical examples, integrated SPSS coverage and screenshots, and numerous learning tools make intimidating concepts accessible.

This book teaches students not just how to calculate statistics, but how to interpret the results of statistical analyses in light of a study's research hypothesis, and to communicate the results and interpretations to a broader audience.

This student-focused exploration of cognitive development takes an evidence-based approach, exploring both theory and applied research. Ideal for students studying in psychology, health and education departments.

Discursive, engaging and enlightening challenge to orthadox approaches to the ideas of free time and leisure, from the preeminent figure in leisure studies.

Including a new section on evaluation accountability, this Third Edition details 30 standards which give advice to those interested in planning, implementing and using program evaluations.

Provides a bridge between strategic thinking and leadership.

An engaging exploration of the social, economic and cultural processes that have resulted in our cities being defined through consumption.

Create a positive testing environment and prepare students to do their best with these useful strategies based on the way each student learns, retains, and transfers information to tests.

Presents Ku12 educators with an overview of the types of assessment within multitiered Response to Intervention (RTI) models: universal screening, progress monitoring, and diagnostic assessment for special education. This title offers suggestions for implementing universal screening and progress monitoring to make informed instructional decisions.

Learn how to stimulate and invigorate learners using state-changing activities-engaging techniques that refocus the brain and create a receptive state of mind for learning.

This provocative book offers insights on public education in a landscape of global competition, the economic gulf between social classes, the explosion of information, and competing expectations.

With guidelines for developing action plans, this resource provides a step-by-step approach to implementing Response to Intervention as a powerful schoolwide improvement process.

This is an essential guide to creating and sustaining a high-quality, successful early child care programme.

This substantially updated edition offers practical methods for designing professional development experiences that generate systemic change to improve teaching and learning.

The author helps teachers promote students' ability to handle emotions, regulate their own behavior, and learn in ways that meet their needs and those of the class.

The books emphasizes following a standards-based curriculum while creating a community of learners, making reflection routine, teaching content and process, and developing authentic tasks and assessments.

This book will excite teachers who want to help motivate today's secondary students. Information about the brain is presented along with the author's personal teaching experiences, tips, and creative game ideas.

This books shows how to use formative assessments to instruct, monitor and evaluate learning successfully

A comprehensive, step-by-step, ready-to-use handbook with all the models, forms, and templates needed to get block scheduling programs up and running

School and district leaders will discover how to develop, assess, and sustain a collaborative, team-based mentoring program that helps retain new teachers and improve student achievement.

This resource shows educators how to establish dynamic curriculum leadership and develop a curriculum that will transform an ordinary school into a school of excellence.

This third edition highlights the questions critical for facilitating collaboration and school change, offers new questions to shape practice, and provides a CD-ROM with a discussion guide.

Discover how the application of eight powerful principles can motivate students, increase every learner's self-confidence, and encourage individuals to go beyond familiar goals to take manageable risks.

This resource covers reading/writing, science standards, and young people's literature, and provides practical applications and sample lesson plans that can be adapted to specific classroom needs.

The author demonstrates how to use, create, and modify graphics organizers to promote critical and creative thinking processes to raise achievement for students of all ability levels.

Offering a fun, engaging approach to grammar instruction, this guide includes clear explanations of grammatical terms and practical activities for all students, including English language learners.

Eloquently illustrates the immediate need for school improvement, examines leaders' expanded roles in the change process, and offers recommendations for turning a vision for change into reality.

This book will make teaching easier for those educating students with English as an additional language.

This concise guide offers monthly themes for reflection and professional development, advice from award-winning principals, space for planning and goal setting, and suggestions for increasing parent involvement.

Packed with stimulating activities and innovative strategies, this how-to book addresses all levels of learner-centered instruction and literacy.