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Developed to serve as a guide to writing center professionals in carrying out their various roles, duties, and responsibilities, this book provides information on the significant areas of writing center work that writing center professionals - both new and seasoned - are likely to encounter.

Illuminates the challenges faced by urban schools, teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher training programs. This title offers a range of insights and possibilities for urban teacher education and teaching.

Includes four cases of teachers' experiences in the classroom. This work presents three public arguments representing different views about the teaching of reading: direct instruction, whole language, and critical literacy. It offers the authors' own interpretations of the issues raised throughout the text.

Addresses a prevalent need in educational scholarship. This book examines assessment models specific to interdisciplinary education.

Examines how oral and written language function in school learning, and how oral texts can be successfully inter-connected to the written texts that are used on a daily basis in schools. This title provides historical background for the study of talk and text.

Offers a set of meta-analyses, covering the breadth of media effects research. Organized by theories, outcomes, and mass media campaigns, the chapters included offer important insights on what social science research reveals about effects. This volume is useful for students, researchers, and graduate students in media effects and media psychology.

Presents the points of view of (often junior) scholars in the social sciences who used non-standard methods or writing practices to challenge the 'research-as-usual' paradigm in the academy, while at the same time meeting the demands of quality and rigor set by their university examining committees and ethical review boards.

Offers insights on the state of online news, exploring the issues surrounding this convergence of print and electronic platforms, and the public's response to it. The heart of the book is formed by empirical studies - mostly social surveys - coming out of the media effects and uses traditions.

The research reported here provides reliable evidence on, and knowledge about, mathematics and science instruction that emphasizes student understanding. The book presents a summary of the concepts, findings, and conclusions of NCISLA research from 1996-2001.

This work is an addition to a series of annual publications of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) that address major issues, the latest research and the best practices in the field of adult literacy and learning.

The Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics published by the National Council of Teachers in Mathematics in 1989 for grades K-12 in the US prompted the development of of standards-based mathematics curricula. This text examines these curricula.

This volume provides a broad-based, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning.

This work provides an overview of the psychology of the Chicana/o experience since 1984. It covers ethnic identity and gender role development and stereotyping, family dynamics, mental and physical health problems, including substance abuse, HIV and domestic violence.

This work provides an overview of the psychology of the Chicana/o experience since 1984. It covers ethnic identity and gender role development and stereotyping, family dynamics, mental and physical health problems, including substance abuse, HIV and domestic violence.

This work shows that aging is not only an individual process but an interactive one. The study of communication can lead to an understanding of what it means to grow old. Many of the chapters work to deny earlier images of aging as involving normative decrement to provide a different view of aging.

Brings together research on adult book reading to children. The authors, drawn from around the world, are key researchers and eminent scholars from the fields of reading and literacy, child language, speech pathology, and psychology, representing multiple perspectives within these disciplines.

This volume brings together the major thrusts of contemporary research and theory in political communication. The approach stresses theoretical overviews and research synthesis with the goal of each chapter to provide an overview of the major lines of research, theory and findings for that topic.

This volume offers international perspectives on sociocultural research in mathematics education. The essays are divided into sections covering: Psychological, Sociological and Political Perspectives; Global, Regional and Local Contexts; and Teachers, Students and Classrooms.

This volume assembles papers on the subject of teaching Elementary School mathematics. It includes case studies and teaching from different perpectives in order to help the teacher put the lessons and subject across well.

This guide offers a concise overview of the evolution of managed mental health care and its impact on the working lives of clinical and counseling psychologists, and explores the ways in which they can make managed care work for rather than against them.

A revision of LEA's handbook on human factors tests and evaluations.

This volume collates research done on integrating the study of teaching, and the study of learning mathematics. The research was guided by two common goals. To accomplish these goals, classrooms in which instruction facilitated the growth of understanding were established and/or studied.

This handbook offers a comprehensive description of the wide array of second language programmes available to undergraduate students in the United States and abroad. Addressing both theory and practice, it presents the historic development, practices and future directions of each type of programme.

Bringing together reading and literacy experts from the fields of education and psychology, this volume examines the issues that impact early reading success and failure. It is intended for educators, students and researchers in literacy, reading, language and cognitive science.

Assembles a comprehensive and contemporary discussion of topics and issues concerning the teaching of communication. This title addresses conceptual as well as practical issues related to communication instruction. It focuses on the goals of communication education, and delves into the preparation of specific communication courses.

Topics in this volume include: basic issues in career counselling for African Americans; career assessment; vocational and personal considerations; and future directions in career counselling theory.

This text serves as an introduction to personality assessment, including: information on the Rorschach and other instruments; a discussion of the impact of the five-factor model on personality assessment; and statistical methods which could contribute to the understanding of complex data.

Presents a dual-language text in the theory and methodology of teaching reading in Spanish to Hispanic youngsters. Each chapter of the text is written in only one language at the preference of its author. Thus, to be successful with the book, the reader must be bilingual.

This volume presents theory and research from scholars working on issues of risks and resilience in families. Focusing on the splits and bonds that shape children's development, the authors attempt to stimulate theoretical and empirical advances in research on family processes.

This work presents the kinds of ethical dilemmas that typically occur in different studies of children, and then provides 65 real-world cases from experts who study children's mental health to offer practical advice for professionals and students in research methods.