Conducting Meaningful Experiments
by Professor Emeritus R Barker Bausell
Schools' Concerns and Their Implications for Local Authorities
by Tamsin Chamberlain, Karen Gail Lewis, and David Teeman
Have you ever thought research is boring? "Research" writes Umberto Eco "should be fun". It seems unlikely that Umberto Eco has read many of the standard social science or education research texts. But social research does offer the possibility of involvement in projects that are informative, sometimes revealing, and fun to do. This book shows us that teaching, learning and research are essentially social and deeply personal activities and that fun needs to be an integral part of this. This is n...
Enjeux de la Diffusion lectronique Des Recherches (Omn.Univ.Europ.)
by Begault-B
European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative (East and West, #11)
European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative is a collection of fourteen essays on the way China is perceived in Europe today. These perceptions - and they are multiple - are particularly important to the People's Republic of China as the country grapples with its increasingly prominent role on the international stage, and equally important to Europe as it attempts to come to terms with the technological, social and economic advances of the Belt and Road Initiat...
Poverty in the 1990s
by Tim Callan, Brian Nolan, Brendan J. Whelan, Christopher T. Whelan, and James Williams
The International Handbook of School Effectiveness Research
What constitutes quality schooling? What are the implications for educational practice and administration? The text looks at these questions and examines international research evidence and reform initiatives with particular emphasis on North America, UK, Australasia and the Third World. It offers a synopsis of the Third World School Effects Research (SER). The authors claim that the challenges now facing educational leaders is to find a balance between SER and the other school movements and to...
Technologies de l''information Et de la Communication Et Innovation (Omn.Univ.Europ.)
by Aldebert-B
Electoral data compiled on behalf of The Electoral Commission from the official returns by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Local Government Chronicle Elections Centre, University of PLymouth. Contains Election overview; Full results for each constituency; Key facts and figures; Index of candidates
Energy statistics yearbook 2016
The 2016 Energy Statistics Yearbook is the sixtieth issue in a series of annual compilations of internationally comparable statistics summarizing world energy trends. Annual data for 230 countries and areas for the period 2013 to 2016 are presented on production, trade and consumption of energy: solids, liquids, gaseous fuels, electricity and heat, covering both renewable and non-renewable sources of energy. In addition, per capita consumption series are also provided for all energy products. Gr...
The World Politics of Social Investment: Volume II (International Policy Exchange)
by PhD Bruno Palier, PhD Julian Garritzmann, and PhD Silja Hausermann
Welfare states around the globe are changing, challenged by the development of knowledge economies. In many countries, policy-makers' main response has been to modernize welfare states by focusing on future-oriented social investment policies that focus on creating, mobilizing, and preserving human skills and capabilities. Yet, there is massive variance in the development of social investment strategies. The World Politics of Social Investment: Political Dynamics of Reform is the second of two...
Railway Technical Research Institute
by Lambert M Surhone, Miriam T Timpledon, and Susan F Marseken
Qualitative Research Methods
by Stephen Ivan Miller and Marcel A. Fredericks
Soziale Erwunschtheit in der Markt- und Meinungsforschung
by Sandra Lakitsch
Musik, welchen Einfluss hat sie auf Jugendliche und ihr Lernverhalten - Eine qualitative Erhebung
by David Beer and Daniela Brauer
Theory and Credibility
by Scott Ashworth, Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, and Christopher R. Berry
A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social scienceThe credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars that the canonical questions about politics and society are being neglected because they are no longer deemed answerable. Theory and Credibility stakes out an opposing view-presenting a new vision of how, working together, the credibility revolution and forma...
Evaluating Research (Social Research Today, #11)
by Alan Clarke and Ruth Dawson