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Part of the ""Research Methods for Educational Technology"" series, this text is divided into four sections: foundations; pathways to understanding; data collection and analysis; and the dissemination of results.

Zoltan P Dienes' name is synonymous with the Multi-base blocks which he invented for the teaching of place value. This monograph honors the seminal contributions of Dienes to mathematics education and includes articles written by Dienes himself. It also includes an interview with Dienes in which he reflects on his life, and his work.

This book is intended to help you enhance your common sense (your intuitive decision making skills) as well as your critical thinking skills (your rational planning and decisionmaking skills). A big claim, to be certain, but undoubtedly a valid one. As you are aware, your common sense, and with it your ability to make many decisions almost intuitively with minimum thought, is vastly better today than it was when you were a teenager. Experience and learning that translated itself into better judgment and reasoning ability, accounts for this change. More precisely, new knowledge led to thought habits that became so solid that you spend hardly a moment on decisions to which they apply. That is how common sense and judgment mature.Practicing the relatively simple formula that this book offers, and developing the habit to apply it regularly, will help you take another quantum step toward a higher level of common sense and intuitive reasoning when you develop plans and make decisions. At the same time, the book will provide you with tools that will sharpen your ability to think about work and personal decisions you are facing from a more comprehensive perspective than you are probably doing now.In addition to helping with plans and decisions, the book will show you how to be an more effective leader.If you manage anything, with or without staff, are preparing for managerial responsibities as a college student, or if you seek to take a managerial career track, this book can be of significant use to you. It does not matter whether your career is in business, nonprofit organization, or government, in health care, retail, engineering, or transportation, just to name a few. The concept presented here addresses decisions on matters which, directly or indirectly, involve people. If you are, or expect to be a manager with a small or a large staff, this book will not only help you make better managerial decisions, it will also help you become a better leader. However, even if you are on a professional track where you manage a function, but do not, or will not have anyone reporting to you, your work still has impact on people. In these professional positions the leadership aspects of your managerial responsibilities may just be of smaller impact, overall, on your plans and decisions. You will, nevertheless bring better results if you consider many of the thoughts and concepts discussed here.Moreover, most professionals are frequently in positions on teams or projects where they are likely to assume leadership responsibilities. In these situations, the concepts discussed in this book can be most useful.Even where your leadership and management responsibilities, and decisions, involve family affairs, most of the sections of this book can be valuable. They address key issues for decisionmaking and interpersonal relations, and they do it from a unique and comprehensive perspective.

The chapters in this volume illustrate how teachers are bringing creativity, higher-order thinking, and meaningful learning activities into particular school settings despite pressures of standards and testing. The word wise has been chosen for the title of the book, and is frequently used to describe the pedagogical practices that are identified.

The chapters in this volume illustrate how teachers are bringing creativity, higher-order thinking, and meaningful learning activities into particular school settings despite pressures of standards and testing. The word wise has been chosen for the title of the book, and is frequently used to describe the pedagogical practices that are identified.

Highlights action research in middle grades education. As a method of inquiry, action research compels educators to take action and think reflectively about those actions in order to effect educational change. Educational action researchers initiate their inquiries in various contexts: alone, in small peer teams, or larger faculty groups.

Highlights action research in middle grades education. As a method of inquiry, action research compels educators to take action and think reflectively about those actions in order to effect educational change. Educational action researchers initiate their inquiries in various contexts: alone, in small peer teams, or larger faculty groups.

Based primarily on the proceedings from the 2004 Milken National Education Conference (NEC), this volume expands on the first volume in the Milken Family Foundation series on education policy. The series explains to policymakers, parents, business leaders, and teachers the importance of teacher quality in increasing student achievement.

The rapidly changing information age is all around us and we are struggling to cope with our out-dated, rigid bureaucratic structures. This third volume of ""LMX Leadership: The Series"" addresses the question of how leaders prepare their teams for required loosely directed, highly coordinated, and above all, flexible operations.

Gives readers detailed information and perspectives on the reform of financial management reform practices in a variety of national settings around the world. The nations, whose experience is represented in this book, are among the most often cited examples of progressive change to be examined and perhaps emulated by governments in other nations.

Gives readers detailed information and perspectives on the reform of financial management reform practices in a variety of national settings around the world. The nations, whose experience is represented in this book, are among the most often cited examples of progressive change to be examined and perhaps emulated by governments in other nations.

This book puts theory into practice in the everyday world of school. It is a book about motivation and the practice of teaching. It portrays challenges and solutions for eliciting a student's best efforts toward thoughtful learning.

Homeschooling in Full View - A Reader describes, discusses and analyzes homeschooling from an array of different and international perspectives. Looking at the history of ""education writ large,"" in a larger social, political and religious context, one for placing homeschooling in perspective.

Homeschooling in Full View - A Reader describes, discusses and analyzes homeschooling from an array of different and international perspectives. Looking at the history of ""education writ large,"" in a larger social, political and religious context, one for placing homeschooling in perspective.

In this collection of 19 articles contributors cover the nature of the relationship between the press and social science, especially in education. Topics include historical perspectives in terms of positive and negative experiences with the media; lessons from the field as they relate to global education, accuracy, and the possibility of controvers

Critical Questions, Critical Perspectives: Language and the Second Language Educator is intended primarily for language educators.

The Davis Conference on Qualitative Research has welcomed research projects by the best qualitative, and organizational researchers in the world. The authors winning the ""Best Presentation Awards"" at the Davis Conference have contributed chapters to this volume.

The Davis Conference on Qualitative Research has welcomed research projects by the best qualitative, and organizational researchers in the world. The authors winning the ""Best Presentation Awards"" at the Davis Conference have contributed chapters to this volume.

This book recounts the dramatic story of the transformation of the Iowa Commission for the Blind from a verifiably ineffective service agency to perhaps the most outstanding and effective adult service program in the nation in the span of 10 short years.

Research in Education in Africa, The Caribbean, and The Middle East, the Book Series provides a comprehensive view of educational knowledge, research, strategies, and policy in these regions.

The purpose of this book is to provide new theoretical, methodological and empirical directions in research on teacher emotion.

Research in Education in Africa, The Caribbean, and The Middle East, the Book Series provides a comprehensive view of educational knowledge, research, strategies, and policy in these regions.

These case studies by New York State teachers, parents and professors, highlight effective specific approaches to provide bridges between home and school and a look to the future for preparing teachers to communicate and connect with families and communities.

These case studies by New York State teachers, parents and professors, highlight effective specific approaches to provide bridges between home and school and a look to the future for preparing teachers to communicate and connect with families and communities.

Aims to create critical linkages between positive psychological attributes and relevant research areas. This volume ignites scientific interest in the role positive psychology plays in key areas such as ethics and social responsibility.

Aims to create critical linkages between positive psychological attributes and relevant research areas. This volume ignites scientific interest in the role positive psychology plays in key areas such as ethics and social responsibility.

Hoy (educational administration, Ohio State University) and Miskel (University of Michigan) present work by new and established scholars representing a variety of theoretical perspectives on leadership and reform in K-12 schools. They draw on a mix of methodologies, including surveys, case studies, and structural equation modeling, to examine issue