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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Provides guidelines for media educators and administrators in higher education media programs who are creating or improving student-learning assessment strategies. This resource guides readers through the steps of developing an assessment plan, establishing student learning outcomes in various areas of the curriculum, and measuring those outcomes.

Contains chapters that are intended for those who have already developed an assessment plan and identified key student learning outcomes, and who need more information on how to measure the outcomes both indirectly and directly.

Takes the reader through the various elements that need to be considered in the development of third generation (3G) content, and explains pitfalls and barriers. This volume is of interest to business professionals, academics, and policy makers.

First Published in 2007. The State of Education Policy Research is a comprehensive, insightful evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of education policy research in the U.S. today.

Featuring contributions from renowned subject-matter experts, this book provides a better understanding of how inhaled nanoparticles behave in the lungs and body. It describes the sequence of events that nanoparticles encounter in the lungs when moving from the air into the bloodstream, as well as addresses practical considerations for drug delivery to the respiratory tract, drug and gene delivery in the lungs, and bio-nanocapsules. In addition, the book explores issues such as dosimetry for in vitro nanotoxicology and the potential for nose-to-brain delivery of drugs.

In an era characterized by the rapid evolution of the concept of literacy, this handbook focuses on multiple ways in which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. It explores the possibilities of broadening current conceptualizations of literacy to include the full array of the communicative arts.

Aims to prepare would-be school leaders to draw upon a variety of theoretical perspectives when thinking about schools and schooling. This book shows how theories can function as cognitive tools to be mastered, carefully stored in one's intellectual toolbox and used to interpret and resolve real world problems.

Shows, in detail and with examples, how educational theory and research can be translated into practice. This book provides descriptions of successful strategies that have been used to bridge the gap among theory, research, and practice.

This book provides a theoretical basis and practical strategies to counter resistance to learning to teach for diversity (in culturally and gender-inclusive ways), and resistance to teaching for understanding (using student-centered and inquiry-based pedagogical approaches).

Provides coverage of the instrumentation, computerization, calibration, and methods development of NIR spectroscopy. This title examines novel applications for accurate time- and cost-effective analyses of pharmaceuticals as well as biomedical applications.

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 practical guide is designed to help college teachers plan their undergraduate courses and deliver high-quality instruction. The book's theme is that teaching is a creative, decision-making, idea-testing enterprise whose purpose is to facilitate student learning in all of its facets.

This volume in the Applied Communication Series explores communication in black, white and biracial families. Topics covered include African-American child rearing, parent-child communication about racial derogation, and the influences of parents and peers on adolescents' self esteem.

This text covers a wide variety of topics relevant to contemporary special education research. Topics include: what instruction works for students with learning disabilities; results from a meta-analysis of intervention studies; and policy decisions in special education.

Features selected papers from the 17th Language Testing Research Colloquium. The volume contributes to the variety of validation approaches, analytical and interpretive techniques recently adopted by language assessment researchers by presenting diverse approaches with an international perspective.

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 work presents a "process model" which seeks to define what public opinion is and how it can best be studied. This model then acts as a framework into which the findings of empirical research can be integrated, with psychological, political, and sociological aspects given equal significance.

This study confronts the charges made by the Religious Right (RR) in the USA, against the literature used in public schools. It presents opposing views on democracy, secular humanism, religion, the Bible and the purposes of literature, and analyzes six books vilified by the RR as "immoral".

An introduction to cases and 14 teaching case studies based on actual events as experienced by their authors. The cases pose problems or dilemmas to be resolved and describe in detail the experiences of parents, students and teachers related to inclusive education.

This text is designed to assist instructors in using the companion book "Inclusive Education: A Casebook and Readings for Prospective and Practising Teachers". It offers case pedagogies and describes curricula that has been developed using cases designed to prepare teachers for inclusive education.

This work is concerned with how people tend to influence environments and how environments reciprocally tend to influence people. It should be of interest to social psychologists, and vocational and industrial/organizational professionals.

This volume on research into families and their effects on children's developing competence, presents basic family processes and approaches for describing family dynamics, and studies family processes in the service of studying families-at-risk.

This text focuses on developments in theoretical approaches to verbal and non-verbal message production. The processes underlying the production of these behaviours are so complex as to defy a single unifying explanation. As such, the book amalgamates disparate treatments to provide an overview.

Presents a complex portrait of the American teacher through a range of 'story' narratives, including fictional short stories, poetry, diaries, letters, ethnographies, and autobiographies. This title traces the evolution of the teacher and the profession over the course of two centuries - from the late 1700s to the late 1900s.

This text considers the structures, policies and practices of schools which differentially advantage white, middle-class, native English speakers over students for whom English may be a second or additional language. It is a framework for conceptualizing and actualizing reform.

Offers various perspectives relating to the development, effectiveness, and implementation of interactive computing technology for health promotion - programs and interventions aimed at improving various health-related outcomes such as involvement in care, quality of life, adherence, disease management, healthy lifestyle, and more.

This text explores the use of online media by reporters in the United States and examines the impact that usage may have on how journalism is framed in the cultural sphere, as well as how it is conducted in the professional one.

From a user-centred perspective, this volume presents theoretical and empirical research on the cognitive processes involved in using hypertext. In so doing it illustrates three main approaches to the design of hypertext systems: cognitive; ergonomical; and educational.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.