Books from Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated
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Performance Theories in Education: Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity
By Gary L. Anderson, Bryant Keith Alexander, Bernardo P. GallegosThis book brings to educational research, for the first time, a communications and performance studies lens.
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Narrative Construction of Emotional Life: A Special Issue of the Journal of Narrative and Life History
By Jefferson A. Singer, Theodore R. SarbinThis work looks at the way narrative constructions affect emotional life and assessment of it; at how love can be defined through narrative construction; at ways in which these constructions can affect the treatment of multiple personality; ...
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Public Sector Assessment: A Special Issue of Human Performance
By David V. Day, Rick R. JacobsThe following articles cover such topics as: * the validation of a bus driver selection system; * the identification of several individual and situational factors related to perceptions of job relevance in a sample of firefighters; * the ...
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Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual
By Rhetoric Society of America. ConferenceThis volume represents current theory and research in rhetoric, across disciplines, and is of interest to scholars and students in rhetoric studies in speech communication, English, and related disciplines.
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Language and Speech Disorders: A Neurophysiological Approach
By Edmund Michael R. CritchleyCoughlan , A. and Warrington , E.K. ( 1978 ) . Word comprehension and word retrieval in patients with localised cerebral lesions . Brain , 101 , 163-185 . Critchley , E.M.R. ( 1977 ) . Social aspects of dyslexia .
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Human Communication Theory and Research: Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges
By Jennings Bryant, Robert Lawrence HeathThe text attempts to convince students that they are "communication theorists" who benefit from increased insights, theory, and awareness of research findings.
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Culturally Relevant Teaching
By Gloria Ladson-BillingsCulturally Relevant Teaching
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Infusing Critical and Creative Thinking Into Content Instruction: A Lesson Design Handbook for the Elementary Grades
By Robert J. Swartz, Sandra ParksThis book explores the concept of combining effective classroom techniques for teaching students to become good thinkers with effective strategies to engage students in thoughtful learning of the regular elementary school curriculum.
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Understanding Literacy Development: A Global View
By Anne McKeoughThe volume provides a global view of literacy development across cultures, countries, and circumstances.
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Family Policy Matters: How Policymaking Affects Families and what Professionals Can Do
By Karen BogenschneiderThis book is an ideal textbook for family policy courses.
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What Predicts Divorce? The Measures: Oral History Interview and Coding System
By GottmanThis book presents the measures from the Gottman laboratory that were used in the book What Predicts Divorce?Developed and applied over a period of the past 15 years, these materials have demonstrated reasonably high reliability and ...
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Technology and the Politics of Instruction
By Jan NesporThis book is intended primarily for scholars and students in the fields of educational and more broadly organizational change, the politics and sociology of education, curriculum theory, higher education, and educational administration, and ...
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The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment: General Considerations
By Mark E. MaruishDrawing on the knowledge and experience of a diverse group of leading experts--test developers, researchers, clinicians and others, the third edition of The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment ...
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Instructor's Manual for Content Area Reading and Learning: Instructional Strategies, 2nd Ed
By James Flood, Diane Lapp, Nancy FarnanThis text addresses instructional issues and provides classroom strategies that will enable all secondary teachers to effectively teach their students in ways that develop both content concepts and strategies for continued learning.
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Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences
By StevensThis successful text includes: *coverage of both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis plus illustrations of LISREL and EQS; *the EXAMINE procedure from SPSSX--terrific for exploring data; *a new section on the doubly multivariate ...
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Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences: SPSS for Windows 8.0 Supplement
By James P. StevensThis successful text includes: *coverage of both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis plus illustrations of LISREL and EQS; *the EXAMINE procedure from SPSSX--terrific for exploring data; *a new section on the doubly multivariate ...
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Instructor's Guide for Introduction to Statistical Concepts for Education and the Behavioral Sciences
By Richard G. LomaxThis book provides comprehensive coverage so that it can be used in a single- or two-course sequence in statistics.
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Closing the Achievement Gap: A Special Issue of the Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk
By Samuel C. StringfieldThis is followed by a study that illustrates the difference in academic performance between low-income children and their peers, minority children and their classmates, and those schools that serve a majority of children from low-income ...
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Virtual Decisions: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Humanities
By Steve CohenFocuses on the special issues related to the use of digital technologies in teaching the complex nature of social decisions with particular attention to the use of digital role-play simulations as a means to accomplish this.
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Teaching Word Meanings
By Steven A. Stahl, William E. NagyIt covers the 'why to' and 'when to' as well as the 'how to' of teaching word meanings. Key features of this exciting new book include: *A variety of vocabulary activities.