Practical Research With Children

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Author by Jess Prior
Genre : Psychology
Editor : Routledge
ISBN : 9781317384045
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 308
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Practical Research with Children is designed to help the reader understand techniques for research with children, based on real world experience. The book describes a wide range of research methods, focusing equally on quantitative and qualitative approaches, and considers how different methods can be integrated. It highlights the benefits and challenges of each method and gives emphasis to best practice, with expert guidance on how to avoid potential pitfalls in order to obtain valuable insights into how children develop. The volume includes fifteen chapters arranged over three sections. Each chapter explores a particular method, or combination of methods, and discusses both theoretical and practical issues, using a diversity of domains, including different ages, cultures, populations and settings. Uniquely, the book includes newer methods (such as eye tracking and digital technologies) alongside well-established behavioural methods which are used for research with children. With contributions from internationally renowned researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines, the book will be indispensable reading for a wide audience, including for students in psychology, education and nursing undertaking research projects with children, and also for anyone looking to understand the research behind current theories in child development.

Engaging Learners With Chemistry

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Author by Ilka Parchmann
Genre : Education
Editor : Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN : 9781788015080
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 299
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Many projects in recent years have applied context-based learning and engagement tools to the fostering of long-term student engagement with chemistry. While empirical evidence shows the positive effects of context-based learning approaches on students' interest, the long-term effects on student engagement have not been sufficiently highlighted up to now. Edited by respected chemistry education researchers, and with contributions from practitioners across the world, Engaging Learners with Chemistry sets out the approaches that have been successfully tested and implemented according to different criteria, including informative, interactive, and participatory engagement, while also considering citizenship and career perspectives. Bringing together the latest research in one volume, this book will be useful for chemistry teachers, researchers in chemistry education and professionals in the chemical industry seeking to attract students to careers in the chemical sector.

An American Dilemma

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Author by Gunnar Myrdal
Genre : Political Science
Editor : Routledge
ISBN : 9781351531993
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 822
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In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, An American Dilemma, refers to the moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination. The touchstone of this classic is the jarring discrepancy between the American creed of respect for the inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity for all and the pervasive violations of the dignity of blacks. The appendices are a gold mine of information, theory, and methodology. Indeed, two of the appendices were issued as a separate work given their importance for systematic theory in social research. The new introduction by Sissela Bok offers a remarkably intimate yet rigorously objective appraisal of Myrdal—a social scientist who wanted to see himself as an analytic intellectual, yet had an unbending desire to bring about change. An American Dilemma is testimonial to the man as well as the ideas he espoused. When it first appeared An American Dilemma was called "the most penetrating and important book on contemporary American civilization" by Robert S. Lynd; "One of the best political commentaries on American life that has ever been written" in The American Political Science Review; and a book with "a novelty and a courage seldom found in American discussions either of our total society or of the part which the Negro plays in it" in The American Sociological Review. It is a foundation work for all those concerned with the history and current status of race relations in the United States.

Bulletin Bureau Of Education

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Author by United States. Bureau of Education
Genre : Education
Editor :
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126759617
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Information Systems Research

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Author by Bonnie Kaplan
Genre : Business & Economics
Editor : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN : 9781402080944
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 745
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Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice comprises the edited proceedings of the WG8.2 conference, "Relevant Theory and Informed Practice: Looking Forward from a 20-Year Perspective on IS Research," which was sponsored by IFIP and held in Manchester, England, in July 2004. The conference attracted a record number of high-quality manuscripts, all of which were subjected to a rigorous reviewing process in which four to eight track chairs, associate editors, and reviewers thoughtfully scrutinized papers by the highly regarded as well as the newcomers. No person or idea was considered sacrosanct and no paper made it through this process unscathed. All authors were asked to revise the accepted papers, some more than once; thus, good papers got better. With only 29 percent of the papers accepted, these proceedings are significantly more selective than is typical of many conference proceedings. This volume is organized in 7 sections, with 33 full research papers providing panoramic views and reflections on the Information Systems (IS) discipline followed by papers featuring critical interpretive studies, action research, theoretical perspectives on IS research, and the methods and politics of IS development. Also included are 6 panel descriptions and a new category of "bright idea" position papers, 11 in all, wherein main points are summarized in a pithy and provocative fashion.

Introduction To Education Studies

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Author by Steve Bartlett
Genre : Education
Editor : SAGE
ISBN : 9781848600973
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 290
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Introduction to Education Studies is established as the key text for undergraduate students of education studies as well as for practitioners embarking on a higher degree. The book provides a thorough grounding for students new to the subject without assuming a substantial prior knowledge of the area. It also takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of education, drawing on the authors' extensive experience of teaching and course development at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. This updated edition includes new sections on " the nature and purposes of education " research in education " ideologies and the curriculum " lifelong learning " comparative education " social and psychological explanations for pupil/student achievement " policy developments in education This highly popular, accessibly written text is essential reading for students on education studies courses. `The authors have provided an important resource for student study in education. Importantly, it reinforces the necessity of a multi-disciplinary approach to the understanding of contested educational process and practices in a contemporary context' - Dave Trotman, Escalate

Curriculum As Institution And Practice

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Author by William Arbuckle Reid
Genre : Education
Editor : Psychology Press
ISBN : 9780805829815
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 234
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Presents and elaborates the deliberative tradition of curriculum theory, and examines the implications of a deliberative perspective for approaches to policy making in school systems.

Business Research

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Author by Donald R. Cooper
Genre : Business & Economics
Editor : SAGE Publications
ISBN : 9781544307817
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 432
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A concise, simplified approach to the research process in business and management, guiding students step-by-step through their research project, from exploring questions and problems, to designing the research, and lastly, writing the results. Chapters include a design matrix and three sets of questions by research objective to help identify the designs that are appropriate for a project and why. There are also seven road marker activities –exploring, planning, creating, conducting, collecting, analyzing, and writing – directing students from one milestone to the next. Key features include: Statistical Decision Trees enabling students to bypass the typical statistics chapters and select the appropriate analysis based on prior learning Global narrative highlighting a wide spectrum of business research challenges. An APA style how-to guide with over 26 exhibits that includes writing examples using permissions for articles and a 2016 thesis. Qualitative research and mixed designs. Real world case studies blending business research within the context of successful organizations. The book is supported by online resources for instructors and students, including: PowerPoint slides, an instructor’s manual, author selected videos, cases and data sets from SAGE SRM. Suitable for Business and management students undertaking a research project or research paper.

Survey Research

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Author by Roger Sapsford
Genre : Social Science
Editor : SAGE
ISBN : 9781446204085
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 296
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This much-anticipated Second Edition presents an informative and accessible account of survey research. It guides the reader through the main theoretical and practical aspects of the subject and illustrates the application of survey methods through examples. Thoroughly revised and updated, it presents: Concise and analytic coverage of multivariate analysis techniques A new chapter giving theoretical and practical advice on the stages involved in constructing scales to measure attitude or personality An account of using materials on the internet Concise introductions and summaries to all chapters This book will prove to be equally useful for students conducting small research projects in the social sciences or related professional/applied areas, researchers planning systematic data collection for applied purposes and policy makers who want to understand and analyse the research with whose conclusions they are presented.

Educational Research Policymaking And Practice

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Author by Martyn Hammersley
Genre : Education
Editor : SAGE
ISBN : 0761974202
Type Books : PDF & Epub
File Pages : 196
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Educational Research maps the demands now being made on educational research against the background complexities of the relationship between research and practice.