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Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases From Higher Education

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

Learner-Centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education: Cases From Higher Education brings the voice of the learning sciences to the study and design of distance learning. The contributors examine critical issues in the design of theoretically and pedagogically based distance education programs.

Eight distance education...

Autism Spectrum Disorders: Identification, Education, and Treatment

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

The field of autism has been growing at an unprecedented rate in recent years. In addition to an actual rise in the number of classic DSM-IV cases, broadened diagnostic criteria have uncovered a wider range of autistic behaviors and ability levels. The third edition of this well-known text continues the mission of its predecessors--to present a...

Composition in Convergence : The Impact of New Media on Writing Assessment

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

This book attempts to explore what these tensions are as writing
assessment and computer technology converge on classroom
space. However, I can make no promises that this examination of
the issues can resolve the tensions. Perhaps no amount of study can
resolve the tensions that exist. The difficulties span political,...

Categorical Data Analysis With Sas and Spss Applications

Psychology Press, 2003

This book is primarily designed for a senior undergraduate class in Categorical Data Analysis and for majors in biomedical, biostatistics and statistics programs, but can also be used as reference text for researchers working in the area, and /or for an introductory text in a graduate course on the subject. A prerequisite of a one year...

Applied Public Relations: Cases in Stakeholder Management (Lea's Communication Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Applied Public Relations: Cases in Stakeholder Management provides readers with the opportunity to observe and analyze how contemporary businesses and organizations interact with key groups and influences. Through the presentation of cases covering a wide variety of industries, locations, and settings, authors Larry F. Lamb and Kathy...

The Handbook of Human Factors in Web Design (Human Factors and Ergonomics)

CRC Press, 2004

The Handbook of Human Factors in Web Design covers basic human factors issues relating to screen design, input devices, and information organization and processing, as well as addresses newer features which will become prominent in the next generation of Web technologies. These include multimodal interfaces, wireless capabilities,...

Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This book is about understanding the meanings of literacies at work.
Reading without a search for meanings is a contradiction in terms. So,
too, is doing workplace literacy education without focusing on how
people make sense of texts at work.

Yet often, that is exactly what workplace educators are asked to do.
We are...

Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education: In Quest of a U.S. Democratic Politics of Literacy

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This book provides a broad overview of some of the major trends and issues shaping the theories, practices, research traditions, and politics of adult literacy in the United States since the mid-1980s. If anything, these have been diverse, conflicting, and often irreconcilable. Impinging factors—from the global economy to urban poverty, from...

Biology and Knowledge Revisited: From Neurogenesis to Psychogenesis (Jean Piaget Symposium Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates. Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning the relationship between evolution and...

Interviewing and Diagnostic Exercises for Clinical and Counseling Skills Building

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

This book contains twenty client profiles to use in practicing interviewing and diagnostic skills. Ten profiles are of adult cases ranging in age from eighteen to seventy (chapters 3-12). Ten profiles are of child or teen cases ranging in age from seven to seventeen (chapters 13-22). In addition to age, the twenty profiles vary in terms of...

The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines Between Entertainment and Persuasion

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

The Psychology of Entertainment Media provides a cutting-edge look at how entertainment media affects its viewers, both in intended and unintended ways, and the psychological processes that underlie these effects. The collection represents an international, multidisciplinary investigation of an age-old process--persuasion--in a relatively...

Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Creativity Across Domains: Faces of the Muse sorts through the sometimes-confusing theoretical diversity that domain specificity has spawned. It also brings together writers who have studied creative thinkers in different areas, such as the various arts, sciences, and communication/leadership. Each contributor explains what is known about the...

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