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For Introduction to Educational Psychology courses.Revised and expanded, this is the new edition of the most applied introduction to educational psychology on the market today. Long recognized for its groundbreaking innovations in placing educational psychology firmly within the context of classrooms, this text examines every educational psychology theory-learning, motivation, and development-and every pertinent concept through the viewpoint of the teacher. Once again in this edition, the author...

The College Guide to the Web introduces students to using the Web for research and Web publishing with an eye to the future. College students today are expected to have some experience with the Internet, and must be prepared to interact with course Web sites and publish work on the Web. Suited for virtually every course in any discipline, this concise Internet primer trains students in nimbly designing Web sites and conducting effective research online.

This book provides a guide for a long-overdue public dialogue about why and how we need to reinvent our nation's schools. How has the world changed for our children; what do all students need to know in light of these changes; how do we hold students and schools accountable for results; what do good schools look like; and what must leaders do to create more of these schools? These are some of the questions that drive this book. The answers emerging to these questions may surprise many. The mos...

Combining practical teaching ideas, updated assessment techniques, and the NCTM standards, this book provides an activity based approach that offers practical suggestions for incorporating manipulatives and group work in the classroom. The accompanying CD-ROM is referred to throughout the book to incorporate actual classroom footage and a variety of activities.

Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: BusinessFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018Get your best grade with the SQA endorsed guide to National 5 Business Management.Fully updated to account for the removal of Unit Assessments and the changes to the National 5 exam, this book contains all the advice and support you need to revise successfully. It combines an overview of the course syllabus with advice from a top expert on how to improve exam performance, so you have the best ch...

This new text on diversity and multiculturalism captures the complexity of multicultural education by examining issues from early childhood through elementary school, high school, university, to the workplace. Testing and parenting issues are examined along with many areas of multiculturalism including ethnicity, religion, exceptionality, socioeconomic status, and gender. Readers will have many opportunities to examine their own beliefs as this book examines diversity from the standpoint of both...

This innovative text addresses the most current issues in children's literature, particularly cultural diversity and multiculturalism. It seeks to define, compare, contrast and apply various genre as it can be integrated within a regular elementary curriculum setting. The emergence of children's literature that is multicultural is clearly explained while connections to theories of child development are made. Also included are various curricular applications of multicultural literature in lesson...

Im handlungsorientierten Unterricht lernen Schuler/-innen aktiv und starker eigenverantwortlich an realitatsnahen, komplexen und ganzheitlichen Problemstellungen. Aufmerksamkeitsverhalten und Lernerfolg koennen dadurch positiv beeinflusst werden. Diese Forschungsarbeit untersucht Aufmerksamkeitsverhalten und Lernerfolg im handlungsorientierten und im eher traditionellen Unterricht. Daneben wird ermittelt, in welchen Phasen des Unterrichts kritische Werte des Aufmerksamkeitsverhaltens festzustell...

Der Band analysiert die in OEsterreich 2010 begonnenen Reformen in der Gesundheitswirtschaft aus systemischer Sicht. Viele Reformen im Gesundheitswesen scheitern daran, dass richtige Inhalte zum falschen Zeitpunkt mit den falschen Werkzeugen umgesetzt werden. Daher wird den Problemen der Umsetzung von Reformen besondere Beachtung geschenkt, wobei die grosse Zahl der Stakeholder sowie die starke Pfadabhangigkeit des Systems eine entscheidende Rolle spielen. Mediziner, Betriebswirte, Volkswirte, S...

The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education. With the increased pressure to perform assessment to demonstrate accountability, Assessment Clear and Simple is needed more than ever. This second edition of the classic resource offers a concise, step-by-step guide that helps make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to an institution. It contains effective strategies for m...

Get extra practice on the quantitative portion of the GMAT exam with this supplement to the GMAT Official Guide 2020 - the only source of real GMAT questions from past GMAT exams Need to concentrate on the quantitative portion of the GMAT exam? Then, the GMAT Official Guide 2020 Quantitative Review is for you. This supplement to the GMAT Official Guide 2020 provides additional guidance focused on the quantitative portion of the exam and includes over 300 practice questions from past GMAT ex...