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“j douglas willms”

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  • Monitoring School Performance

    A Guide For Educators

    by J. Douglas Willms ...
    This work evaluates methods of establishing and monitoring school systems either at the school, district, authority or state level from a theoretical and practical point of view. The analysis and interpretation of data on ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

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    Case Studies for Learning

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  • Research Methods In Health: Investigating Health And Health Services

    by Ann Bowling ...
    This bestselling book provides an accessible introduction to the concepts and practicalities of research methods in health and health services. ... Read more

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  • Early Childhood Matters

    Evidence from the Effective Pre-school and Primary Education Project

    Edited by Kathy Sylva, Edward Melhuish, Pam Sammons, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Brenda Taggart ...
    Early Childhood Matters documents the rapid development of early years education and care from the late 1990s into the new millennium. It chronicles the unique contribution of the EPPE research to our understanding of the importance of pre-school.The Effective Pre-school and Primary Education (EPPE) project is the largest European study of the impact of early years education and care on children’s ... Read more

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  • Methods Matter

    Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research

    by Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett ...
    Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children. Unfortunately, their decisions are rarely informed by evidence on the consequences of these initiatives in other settings. Nor are decisions typically accompanied by well-formulated plans to evaluate their causal impacts. As a result, knowledge about what ... Read more

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  • Desistance from Sex Offending

    Alternatives to Throwing Away the Keys

    by D. Richard Laws, PhD, Tony Ward, PhD ...
    This book offers a fresh perspective on treating a population that is often demonized by policymakers, the public, and even clinicians. The authors argue that most sex offenders are "people like us," with the potential to lead meaningful, law-abiding lives—if given a chance and appropriate support. They describe an empirically and theoretically grounded rehabilitation approach, the Good Lives ... Read more

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  • Evaluating Teaching and Learning

    A practical handbook for colleges, universities and the scholarship of teaching

    by David Kember, Paul Ginns ...
    Every semester, colleges and universities ask students to complete innumerable course and teaching evaluation questionnaires to evaluate the learning and teaching in courses they have taken. For many universities it is a requirement that all courses be evaluated every semester. The laudable rationale is that the feedback provided will enable instructors to improve their teaching and the curriculum ... Read more

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  • Residential and Boarding Education and Care for Young People

    A Model for Good Management and Practice

    by Ewan Anderson ...
    This innovative book identifies the key elements of good management and practice common to all residential child care settings - whether hospital unit, boarding school, children's home, special school or custodial care establishment - and important variations between the different settings. Using a model developed under the auspices of the Rowntree Foundation, it provides managers with a coherent ... Read more

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  • Research Methods in Education

    by Joseph W. Check, Russell K. Schutt ...
    Research Methods in Education introduces research methods as an integrated set of techniques for investigating questions about the educational world. This lively, innovative text helps students connect technique and substance, appreciate the value of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and make ethical research decisions. It weaves actual research "stories" into the presentation of ... Read more

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  • Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth

    Developing Evidence-Based International Practice

    by Hans Grietens, Erik Knorth, Richard Barth, Megan Cummings, Mike Stein, Mark Courtney, Christopher Bellonci, Ronald Thompson, Charles Izzo, Amaia Bravo, Patricia McNamara, Sigrid James, James Anglin, Susan Ramsey, Frank Ainsworth, Annemiek Harder, June Thoburn, Turf Jakobsen, Nathanael Okpych, Bethany Lee, Iriana Santos, Martha Holden, Daniel Daly, Ana Sainero, Michael Nunno, Anat Zeira, Mette Lausten, Nicole Obeid, Lauren Schmidt, Richard Small, John Lyons ...
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    Therapeutic Residential Care For Children and Youth takes a fresh look at therapeutic residential care as a powerful intervention in working with the most troubled children who need intensive support.Featuring contributions from distinguished international contributors, it critically examines current research and innovative practice and addresses the key questions: how does it work, what are its ... Read more

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  • Practice-Based Research in Social Work

    A Guide for Reluctant Researchers

    by Sarah-Jane Dodd, Irwin Epstein ...
    This unique textbook explores practice-based research (PBR), using numerous practice examples to actively encourage and engage students and practitioners to embrace research as a meaningful support for their practice. Whilst evidence-based practice gives practitioners access to information about "universal" best practices, it does not prioritize practitioner-generated knowledge or promote new ... Read more

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  • Educational Evaluation, Assessment and Monitoring

    A Systematic Approach

    by Cees Glas, Jaap Scheerens, Sally M. Thomas ...
    Series series Contexts of Learning
    This book looks at the foundations of school self-evaluation from a scientific as from a practical perspective. Planning concepts, restructuring of education systems, organizational theory on schools, evaluation methodology and models of school effectiveness and school improvement are discussed as contributing to the overall conceptualization of school self-evaluation. A broad range of approaches ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD