Books published by SAGE Publications Inc

Rebooting Policy Analysis: Strengthening the Foundation, Expanding the Scope is a savvy introduction to policy analysis that gets students thinking, not just about how decisions should be made, but how they are made. The text highlights practical skills needed to advise decision-makers on matters of public policy in ways that are well-informed and solutions-oriented, while managing limitations like time, resources, and information. In a world that has become increasingly complex and partisan, the strength of policy analysis rests not only in its classical academic methods, but on the development of a practical, analytic mindset.

Test Development and Validation by Gary Skaggs frameworks for test development and validation, and guidance for developing tests in straightforward language in one core text. Covering the changes in testing, technical development of tests and determining validity of tests, this book offers clear explanations within a real-world context.

Learn how to take self-care off your to-do list! This book¿s unique and compelling framework empowers you to practice self-care through thoughts and actions that are within your control, enhancing your well-being without taking on extraneous responsibilities. Features include:  A checklist for determining your baseline of strengths and needs Self-reflection questions, journaling opportunities, and action-planning exemplars A process for tracking, celebrating, and revising your own tangible objectives Teaching guidance for distance or hybrid education Strategies to share with your students

An equitable, inclusive and practical application of culturally responsive teaching that transcends learning environmentsEducators in the 21st century are teaching diverse learners across a range of learning environments, while attending to critical issues related to equity, inclusion, and social justice. Now there¿s a resource to help you merge the essential skills of embedding culturally responsive teaching practices into online and in person learning settings. Using the Dynamic Equitable Learning Environments (DELE) framework, you can build the knowledge, awareness, skills, and dispositions to pivot instruction to facilitate equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist learning experiences that transcend cultural, social, and linguistic backgrounds¿no matter where, when, or how your students do their learning.Combining an interactive workspace with teacher preparation and professional development, this book provides an action planner and toolkit for embedding culturally responsive teaching into online and in person instruction. Other features include: Demonstrative, inspirational, and culturally responsive practical approaches for online and in person educational settings Self-reflection questions, anti-bias exercises, and critical-thinking activities that support equity-mindedness Culturally sustaining checklist templates Links to additional responsive online resources, readings, and culturally relevant media Action plan templates to work through in each chapter Additional Call to Action practices to pursue after completing the book

Using Goals to Amplify Student Learning Step Into Student Goal Setting provides an action plan for answering the question: What does this student know and how do I build from it? Research-driven and practical, this guide shows teachers how to integrate formative assessment, student metacognition, and motivational strategies to make goal setting an integral instructional strategy for learning growth and agency. Readers will find: Actionable strategies for incorporating goal setting in instructional practice Tips for using goals as motivational strategies to drive student growth Guidance on how to coach students through setting their own goals Vignettes and examples to demonstrate what goal setting looks like in the classroom

Streamline literacy learning with power-packed children¿s booksPam Koutrakos shows how to streamline and integrate literacy instruction using a single children¿s text for a variety of purposes, weaving together different aspects of literacy from reading and writing to spelling and grammar. This user-friendly resource is packed with ready-to-go lessons and tools to create and teach using multitasking texts. Resources include Full lessons centered on high-quality, inclusive children¿s literature A DIY section to help teachers plan and teach lessons Dozens of student and classroom examplesPrintables available online to help with immediate implementation

Because fluency practice is not a worksheet.Fluency in mathematics is more than adeptly using basic facts or implementing algorithms. It is not about speed or recall. Real fluency is about choosing strategies that are efficient, flexible, lead to accurate solutions, and are appropriate for the given situation. Developing fluency is also a matter of equity and access for all learners. The landmark book Figuring Out Fluency in Mathematics Teaching and Learning offered educators the inspiration to develop a deeper understanding of procedural fluency, along with a plethora of pragmatic tools for shifting classrooms toward a fluency approach. Now, teachers have the chance to apply that inspiration through explicit instruction and practice every day with the classroom companion Figuring Out Fluency: Addition and Subtraction with Fractions and Decimals. With this book, teachers can: Dive deeper into the Significant Strategies for fluency explained in the anchor book Learn how these strategies grow from and relate to the basic fact strategies children learn  Access over 100 strategy-aligned and classroom-ready activities for fluency instruction and practice in adding and subtracting fractions and decimals, including worked examples, routines, games, and centers Find activities for assessing all components of addition and subtraction fluency for fractions and decimals, plus support for engaging families  Download all of the needed support tools, game boards, and other resources from the companion website for immediate implementation.Give each and every student the knowledge and power to become skilled and confident mathematical thinkers and doers.

Student Study Guide With IBM (R) SPSS (R) Workbook for Research Methods, Statistics, and Applications 3e gives students opportunities to practice and apply their knowledge. Written by the authors of the main text, this study guide follows the textbook and offers practice quizzes, in-depth exercises, research application questions, and instructions and exercises for SPSS.

This book consistently integrates methods and statistics while including multiple examples and practical application to make the material more interesting and to take some of the mystery and anxiety out of learning research methods and statistics

The trusted series of workbooks by Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards continues with A Microsoft Excel (R)Companion to Political Analysis. In this new guide, students dive headfirst into actual political data from all major subfields working with the ubiquitous Excel software.

Revised to reflect the current status of scientific and professional theory, practices, and debate across all facets of ethical decision making, this latest edition of Celia B. Fisher's acclaimed book demystifies the American Psychological Association's (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.

This popular text/reader for the social psychology courses in sociology departments is distinguished by the author's engaging framing essays that open each part, and an eclectic set of edited readings that introduce students to major thinkers and perspectives in this field.

The essence of research design is the ability to articulate your research question. This book dissects the anatomy of a qualitative research question, outlines the role of paradigms in research design, describes strategies to use the anatomy as a design heuristic, and provides sample cases that track the decisions two researchers made while formulating a qualitative question. The book concludes with advice on how to move from the research question to the proposal.

This text provides a road map for evaluators doing business within or for government, public managers who are expected to assess and use evidence generated by a large variety of evaluation approaches, and students taking evaluation courses in public management.

This book is written primarily for students or beginning-to-moderately experienced grantwriters working in nonprofit corporations, school districts, or city or county agencies. It provides a step-by-step guide to writing a successful grant proposal.

Narrative research is an increasingly popular qualitative method across the social sciences. This book has two purposes: firstly to show students and researchers how to do research on narrative topics, particularly on questions about narrative productions of meaning, and secondly to explain some fundamentals of research methods suitable for exploring these topics. A final part of the book provides empirical examples of how such research is done.

Criminal (In)Justice: A Critical Introduction takes an unflinching look at the American criminal justice system and the social forces that affect the implementation of justice. Author Aaron Fichtelberg uses a unique, critical perspective to introduce readers to criminal justice and encourages them to look closer at the intersection of race, class, gender, and inequality in the criminal justice system. Covering each of the foundational areas of the criminal justice system-policing, courts, and corrections-this book takes an in-depth look at the influence of inequality, making it ideal for those who want to critically assess and understand the American criminal justice system.

This book presents complex concepts in a way that helps students to understand the logic underlying the creation, use, and evaluation of measurement instruments, and to develop a more intuitive feel for how scales work.

This skilfully honed revision by master storyteller and evaluator Michael Quinn Patton provides the most comprehensive review and integration ever done of the vast literature on evaluation use and practice.

Measurement connects theoretical concepts to what is observable in the empirical world, and is fundamental to all social and behavioral research. In this volume, J. Micah Roos and Shawn Bauldry introduce a popular approach to measurement: confirmatory factor analysis, with examples in every chapter draw from national survey data. Data to replicate the examples are available on a companion website, along with code in R, Stata, and Mplus.

The Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Client Workbook by Robert R. Perkinson is an evidence-based program that uses treatments including motivational enhancement, cognitive-behavioral therapy, skills training, medication, and 12-step facilitation. It provides a venue for clients to write down their thoughts and experiences as they progress through treatment. The Third Edition of the workbook takes the patient through all 12 steps of recovery and continues to include chapters on honesty and preventing relapse.

This book shows why those hoping to use evaluation to drive change in complex systems, rather than develop or improve one program, policy, or product, need to shift from the oversimplified idea of formative evaluation to a more specified continuous improvement model grounded in improvement science. In doing so, author Kristen L. Rohanna provides guidance to both evaluators and others, such as K-12 educators or hospital administrators, who lead improvement initiatives in their organizations and seek to solve persistent problems of practice.

Your guide to grow and learn as a math teacher!Let¿s face it, teaching elementary math can be hard. So much about how we teach math today may look and feel different from how we learned it. Today, we recognize placing the student at the center of their learning increases engagement, motivation, and academic achievement soars. Teaching math in a student-centered way changes the role of the teacher from one who traditionally ¿delivers knowledge¿ to one who fosters thinking. Most importantly, we must ensure our practice gives each and every student the opportunity to learn, grow, and achieve at high levels, while providing opportunities to develop their agency and authority in the classroom which results in a positive math identity. Whether you are a brand new teacher or a veteran, if you find teaching math to be quite the challenge, this is the guide you want by your side. Designed for just-in-time learning and support, this practical resource gives you brief, actionable answers to your most pressing questions about teaching elementary math. Written by four experienced math educators representing diverse experiences, these authors offer the practical advice they wish they received years ago, from lessons they¿ve learned over decades of practice, research, coaching, and through collaborating with teams, teachers and colleagues¿especially new teachers¿every day. Questions and answers are organized into five areas of effort that will help you most thrive in your elementary math classroom:  1. How do I build a positive math community?2. How do I structure, organize, and manage my math class?3. How do I engage my students in math?4. How do I help my students talk about math?5. How do I know what my students know and move them forward?Woven throughout, yoüll find helpful sidebar notes on fostering identity and agency; access and equity; teaching in different settings; and invaluable resources for deeper learning. The final question¿Where do I go from here?¿ offers guidance for growing your practice over time. Strive to become the best math educator you can be; your students are counting on it!  What will be your first step on the journey?

Shows students how to communicate on social media professionally and strategically by giving them hands-on experiences with real-world challenges. Designed to be used with Freberg's Social Media for Strategic Communication.

Insights, strategies, and tips on how to apply entrepreneurial marketing concepts to increase the chances of venture success.

Making Sense of Numbers teaches students the skills they need to be both consumers and producers of quantitative research: able to read about, collect, calculate, and communicate numeric information for both everyday tasks and school or work assignments. Jane E. Miller uses annotated examples on a wide variety of topics to illustrate how to use new terms, concepts, and approaches to working with numbers.

Build an Asset-based Approach as the Foundation for Equitable PracticeEquity for multilingual learners (MLLs) means that students¿ cultural and linguistic identities, backgrounds, and experiences are recognized as valued sources of knowledge. This ready-to-use guide offers practical strategies for educators seeking thoughtful, research-informed, and accessible information on how to guide MLLs. Focused on the deliberate daily actions that all teachers of MLLs can take, this book captures a compelling advocacy framework for culturally and linguistically responsive equity work, including  Examples of educators responding to MLLs through an equity lens  Student portraits of MLL experiences  Answers to essential how-to questions  Robust professional learning activities Access to print and online resources for additional information

Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences provides a framework to help students understand the relationship between media and society and helps students develop skills for critically evaluating both conventional wisdom and one¿s own assumptions about the social role of the media. The Seventh Edition retains its basic sociological framwork, but also includes additional discussions of new studies and up-to-date material about a rapidly changing media landscape. This edition significantly expands on discussions of the "new media" world, including digitization, the Internet, and the spread of mobile media devices, and the role of user-generated content, the potential social impact of "new" media on society, and "new" mediäs effect on traditional media outlets. The new edition includes updated research, the latest industry data, and current examples from popular media, which will help to illustrate enduring themes in the sociology of media.

Increase your racial equity capacity for transformational change The years 2020 - 2021 will be remembered for COVID-19 and racial injustice. COVID illuminated long-standing structural inequities. Increased media focus on police brutality helped fuel a protest movement that underscored the urgency of the moment. In schools, non-profits, and various business sectors, conversations about race and institutional racism are becoming increasingly common. However, most of these conversations are performative and do little to disrupt the status quo. The authors of Humanity Over Comfort aim to move beyond the transactional response of using only conversations to respond to structural inequalities. Alternatively, the authors advance tools that promote transformational change that eliminates the access and opportunity gaps for Black and Brown individuals. Written to cultivate awareness that increases racial equity capacity, this book will help readers Understand historical context and the influence of racism in shaping reality Engage in reflections that connect learning to personal experience  Understand the Conscious Anti-Racist Engendering Framework (CARE), which draws from adult learning theory to build community in organizations Leverage one¿s span of control to implement practices that incrementally work to dismantle systems of oppressions Direct their increased capacity towards dismantling racially predictable policies and practices Transactional responses to racism perpetuate marginalizing narratives and outcomes and do little to support the humanity of a community, including White members. This book will guide readers towards transformational change to build a system that supports the restoration of our collective humanity.