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Assessing Children's Well-Being: A Handbook of Measures

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

The emphasis on collaborative management of children's health has led to the involvement of multiple disciplines in pediatric health care. This shift has resulted in an increasing focus on the assessment of children's functioning across multiple domains. The Task Force on Pediatric Education (1978) noted several decades ago that the types of...

Misadventures in Health Care: Inside Stories (Human Error and Safety)

Psychology Press, 2003

Misadventures in Health Care: Inside Stories presents an alternative approach to attributing the cause of medical error solely to the health care provider. That alternative, the systems approach, pursues why an incident occurs in terms of factors in the context of care that affect the care provider to induce an error. The basis for...

Cognition in A Digital World

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002

Massive changes are occurring in society regarding the delivery of information
to individuals and the way individuals process this information. These
changes happen at work, at home, and in schools; the Internet and the
World Wide Web (WWW) are changing people’s working lives, leisure
time, work settings, and educational...

Kids' Slips: What Young Children's Slips of the Tongue Reveal About Language Development

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

The study of speech errors, or "slips of the tongue," is a time-honored methodology which serves as a window to the representation and processing of language and has proven to be the most reliable source of data for building theories of speech production planning. However, until Kids' Slips, there has never been a corpus of such...

Foundations for Research: Methods of Inquiry in Education and the Social Sciences

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

This text is designed for use in introductory research courses in the professional fields and social sciences. The major goal of the book is to acquaint students and beginning researchers with a broad view of research methodologies, as well as an
understanding of the assumptions that inform each of these approaches. Because the book presents...

The Essence of Multivariate Thinking: Basic Themes and Methods (Multivariate Applications)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

The Essence of Multivariate Thinking is intended to make multivariate statistics more accessible to a wide audience. To encourage a more thorough understanding of multivariate methods, author Lisa Harlow suggests basic themes that run through most statistical methodology. The most pervasive theme is multiplicity. The author argues that the...

Handbook of Parenting: Volume 4: Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, Second Edition

Routledge, 2002

Completely revised and expanded from four to five volumes, this new edition of the Handbook of Parenting appears at a time that is momentous in the history of parenting. Parenting and the family are today in a greater state of flux, question, and redefinition than perhaps ever before. We are witnessing the emergence of striking...

Handbook of Parenting: Volume 5: Practical Issues in Parenting, Second Edition

Psychology Press, 2002

Beyond Constructivism: Models and Modeling Perspectives on Mathematics Problem Solving, Learning, and Teaching

Routledge, 2003

This book evolved out of research that began more than 25 years ago, based on a National Science Foundation-supported project investigating the question: what is needed, beyond having a mathematical idea that enables students to use it in everyday problem-solving situations! (Lesh, Landau, & Hamilton, 1983). Large portions...

The Psychological Foundations of Culture

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

Why do beliefs spread? traditions persist? customs survive? This collection proposes clever and thoughtful answers and it should inspire lively discussion as sociologists, anthropologists, and organizational scholars welcome their psychologist colleagues to the ongoing debate about culture.

—Chip Heath,...

Web Search Savvy: Strategies and Shortcuts for Online Research

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Web Search Savvy: Strategies and Shortcuts for Online Research provides readers of all skill levels with efficient search strategies for locating, retrieving, and evaluating information on the Internet. Utilizing her experience as a reporter working on deadline, author Barbara G. Friedman offers the most effective methods for finding useful and...

Teaching Academic ESL Writing: Practical Techniques in Vocabulary and Grammar (ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

This work attempts to fill an important gap in teacher professional preparation by focusing on the grammatical and lexical features that are essential for all ESL writing teachers and student-writers to know. The fundamental assumption is that before students of English for academic purposes can begin to successfully produce academic writing, they...

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