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Conducting Behavioral and Social-Emotional Assessments in MTSS: Screen to Intervene offers effective assessment strategies for improving mental and behavioral health decision-making within multi-tiered systems of support. Accessible to school psychologists, behavior analysts, PBIS team leaders, and other school-based professionals, this applied book features evidence-based practices and case study examples to show how assessment data can drive prevention and intervention services, particularly a...

In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of 'simple' versus 'complex' humor. The varied combinations of so-called high and low forms of humor within junior texts for young readers, who are at such a crucial stage of their reading and social development, provide a valua...

Do you know yourself? Really? Are you a good judge of others? These questions are at the heart of personality assessment. And whether you are applying for a job, trying for promotion or looking for a change of direction, it is likely that you will be required to complete a psychometric test or some kind of personality profile at some time. This book examines the background of such assessments and the theories behind them and offers the reader the chance to carry out a series of far-reaching test...

This comprehensive guide helps examiners who use the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery Revised in school settings to translate these test results into meaningful information for programme development. The guide is organized into several chapters. The first chapter presents a brief overview of the diagnostic/prescriptive process. The second describes the Woodcock-Johnson Revised (WJ-R) tests and clusters and the wide range of interpretative information available. Subsequent chapters dir...

Das Ziel der Arbeit besteht darin, Erkenntnisse zum Verhaltnis von mathematischen Fahigkeiten, begabungsstutzenden Personlichkeitseigenschaften sowie Umfeldbedingungen von Schulern im mittleren Schulalter aufzudecken und ein padagogisches Empfehlungsmaterial zur Forderung von Begabungen zu erarbeiten. Ein naturliches padagogisches Experiment prufte die Wirksamkeit eines solchen Materials durch den Einsatz eines Fragebogens in drei Abschnitten. Besonders befahigte Schuler konnten mit Hilfe eines...

The book will be designed primarily for graduate students (or advanced undergraduates) who are learning psychometrics, as well as professionals in the field who need a reference for use in their practice. We would assume that users have some basic knowledge of using SPSS to read data and conduct basic analyses (e.g., descriptive statistics, frequency distributions). In addition, the reader should be familiar with basic statistical concepts such as descriptive statistics (e.g., mean, median, vari...

How did Victorian novelists engage with the new theories of human intelligence that emerged from late nineteenth-century psychology and evolutionary science? Assessing Intelligence traces the genealogy of the modern concept of IQ. It examines how five writers George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, HG Wells and Virginia Woolf used the bildungsroman, or the novel of education, to wrestle with the moral and political implications of the IQ model of intelligence and the fantasies of meritocrac...