Books published by Taylor & Francis Inc

Brings together in one place essential information about college students in the US in the 21st century. Synthesizing existing research and theory, the book presents an introduction to studying student characteristics, college choice and enrolment patterns, institutional types and environments, student learning, persistence, and outcomes.

Presents the distilled wisdom of scores of instructors across ranks, disciplines and institution types, whose contributions are organised into a thematic framework that progressively introduces the reader to the key dispositions, principles and practices for creating the inclusive classroom environments that will help students succeed.

Drawing on the concept of the student-ready college, and on emerging research and practices that colleges and universities can use to explore campus-specific social class issues and identify barriers, this book provides examples of support programs and services across the field of higher education.

Describes the development of Purdue University's IMPACT program (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation), from its tentative beginning, when it struggled to recruit 35 faculty fellows, to the present, when 350 have been enrolled and the university has more applications than it can currently handle.

Drawing on the concept of the student-ready college, and on emerging research and practices that colleges and universities can use to explore campus-specific social class issues and identify barriers, this book provides examples of support programs and services across the field of higher education.

In addressing the experiences of inclusion, exclusion, affirmation, and challenges that they encounter, contributors to this book identify the sites in higher education that affect perceptions of self, belonging, rejection, and resilience; describe strategies they used to support themselves; and advocate for greater awareness of multiracial issues.

You've heard it said many times; reading and writing go hand in hand. It's true. But how do you meaningfully connect the two in everyday classroom practice? Taking cues from their students, two seasoned teachers will share what they've learned from occasionally converging their separate reading and writing workshops into one literacy workshop.

A book about creating invitations for young children to engage with math ideas through art, literacy, and outdoor play. It focuses on building spaces in early childhood classrooms where children see themselves as mathematical thinkers with valuable ideas from the very start.

What can we teach kids today that will have utility ten or fifteen years from now? Angela Kohnen and Wendy Saul propose an approach to information literacy that uses activity to help students build identities as curious individuals empowered to ask questions and able to navigate their information-filled world in pursuit of credible answers.

Whether they recognize it or not, virtually all colleges and universities face three Grand Challenges: improve the learning outcomes of a higher education; extend more equitable access to degrees; make academic programs more affordable. This book analyses how six pioneering colleges and universities have begun to make progress on all three fronts.

The field of survey sampling has grown considerably. This work covers the modern innovations of survey sampling, both methodological and theoretical.

Predicting Outdoor Sound provides a scholarly yet practical examination for acoustical engineers of the phenomena that affect outdoor sound close to the ground and its prediction.

For advanced undergraduate or non-major graduate students in Advanced Statistical Modeling or Regression II and courses in Generalized Linear Models, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Correlated Data, Multilevel Models. Material on R at the end of each chapter. Solutions manual for qualified instructors.

Northeast India is home to many distinct communities and is an area of incredible ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity. This book explores the shared cultural heritage among the highland and river valley communities of Northeast India and mainland South East Asia, including South China, through oral traditions.

The contents of the book can be categorized in two: fault tolerant attitude filtering algorithms for small satellites and sensor calibration methods to compensate the sensor errors. This book also covers the in-flight sensor calibration algorithms for magnetometers and gyros.

Schooling and Social Change in England since 1760 offers a powerful critique of the situation of British education system today and shows the historical processes which have helped generate the crisis confronting policymakers and practitioners at the present time.

A guide for designing professional development programs for graduate students. The teaching competencies framework presented here can serve as the intended curriculum for such programs. The book will also be an excellent resource for evaluating programs and for academics who study graduate students.

A guide for designing professional development programs for graduate students. The teaching competencies framework presented here can serve as the intended curriculum for such programs. The book will also be an excellent resource for evaluating programs and for academics who study graduate students.

Provides instructors with a holistic way of thinking about learners, learning, and online course design. The distinctive strategies derived from an integrated framework for designing the online learning experience help create an experience that is more personalized, engaging, and meaningful for online learners.

Explores read-aloud strategies designed to enhance your reading and writing standards by capitalizing on the way literature can impact caring communities. With over 200 picture-book suggestions, author JoEllen McCarthy demonstrates how you can layer literacy and life lessons throughout your day using multiple connections across learning.

Presents an innovative discourse structure in which students' ideas and voices take the lead while teachers focus on listening and facilitating. In addition to classroom stories and examples, the authors provide 28 micro-lessons designed to help K-5 students develop and exercise their speaking and listening muscles.

Shares the power of infusing maths class with the spirit of revision so that students feel comfortable thinking aloud as they talk to learn through problem-solving rather than talking only to perform right answers. In the process, a class becomes a community of maths thinkers, and teachers gain access into their students' ideas and understandings.

In addressing the place of care in liberalism, this collection advances the idea that care ethics can help respond to legitimate criticisms from feminists who argue that liberalism ignores issues of race, class, and ethnicity.

Addressing the subject of stellar evolution from its basic theoretical aspect to current research, this book gives particular emphasis to the special challenges that confront the astrophysicist, namely the passive rather than active observation of astronomical objects and events.

Cardiac surgeons worldwide have rapidly adopted minimally invasive and hybrid techniques as demand from patients for less invasive approaches grows exponentially. This is the first comprehensive, practical guide for surgeons at all levels wishing to develop specialist skills in minimally invasive cardiac and hybrid surgery.