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This book provides a hands-on, practical manual to help student affairs professionals negotiate educational, organizational, and logistical issues in helping college men to understand the gendered context of sexual assault.

Explores the role of communication in framing and contributing to issues of social justice. This work investigates the theoretical and practical ways in which communication scholarship can enable inclusive and equitable communities within American society. It is useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in communication, journalism, and more.

Thinking with data is the set of cognitive processes used to identify, integrate, and communicate the information in complex numerical, categorical, and graphical data. Containing chapters based on presentations given at the 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, this book focuses on uncertainty and variation and how people understand these ideas.

An examination of metacognition in literacy learning. It provides the theoretical foundation that supports the teaching of metacognition; new methods for metacognitive assessment and instruction in literacy contexts at all grade levels; and new information on integrating metacognition into professional development programs.

Covering topics and categories established by the ACEJMC, this book moves through the steps of developing the assessment plan, establishing student learning outcomes in the various areas of the curriculum, and measuring those outcomes. It includes case studies from private and public institutions with varied approaches to communication education.

Introductory Psychology is typically the first course new professors and graduate students teach, and with little to no teacher training. This new book provides a single resource for both novice and veteran teachers to improve their effectiveness in teaching this challenging course.

The purpose of Methods of Historical Analysis in Electronic Media is to provide a foundation for historical research in electronic media by addressing the literature and the methods as applied to electronic media.

Modeling Human Behavior With Integrated Cognitive Architectures summarizes the results of four years of collaborative research within the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research.

This text provides preservice and in-service teachers with a model for engaging in effective instruction with the variety of students encountered in college English as a second language or foreign language classrooms. The approach is based on the principles of Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy.

Everyone involved in the success of American education, from parents to policymakers, is affected by or concerned about educational testing. The education reform movement of the past 15 years has focused on raising academic standards. The contributing authors of this volume are accomplished researchers and practitioners.

Covering the subjects of communication sciences and disorders and speech pathology, this text on instrumentation is an introduction for students in the speech and hearing sciences.

This work theoretically and practically situates the teaching of reading as a common pedagogical practice in the college writing classroom. As a whole, the book argues for rethinking the separation of reading and writing within the first-year writing classroom.

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The Moral Media is designed to provide readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. It serves as a beginning on which other scholars can build.

This volume represents current theory and research in rhetoric, across disciplines, and is of interest to scholars and students in rhetoric studies in speech communication, English, and related disciplines.

This volume incorporates perspectives on: evaluation as a transdiscipline; results oriented management; empowerment, fourth generation, inclusive, and theory-driven evaluation; cultural competency in evaluation; and frameworks for integrating diverse visions for evaluation.

This text presents the results of a 15 year longitudinal study of the development of four educator's pedagogical thinking. It should contribute to understanding how to support and retain novice and experienced teachers.

What determines whether people are sexually attracted to men, women, or both? Human sexuality researchers often find themselves faced with questions that entail conceptual issues for which their professional training may not have prepared them. This work aims to provide that guidance.

This volume represents theory and research in rhetoric, across disciplines, and should be of interest to scholars and students in rhetoric studies in speech communication, English, and related disciplines.

This text focuses on TOTs, asking what they are, the theories of TOT etiology, as a window on retreival; functional aspects, and the theories of metacognition.

An examination of the learning process by researchers in the field. Contributors describe both important theoretical perspectives concerning learning and the research that supports these positions. The text should be useful to students and researchers in psychology and related disciplines.

This volume addresses how to create a society of "engaged readers" in modern times, with reading increasingly overruled by the media such as television and personal computers. Engaged readers, as the term is used in this book, means readers who are socially interactive, strategic and motivated.

This work addresses contemporary issues in prevention science and characteristics of abusable substances. It also features coverage of the historical contexts of substance abuse and the impact of drug and alcohol abuse on society.

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.

Presenting the latest theories in structural equation interaction modelling, this volume provides an overview of statistical concepts which focus on various interaction approaches. It is intended for researchers and practitioners in education and the social sciences.

This text presents the experiences of researchers in computerized assessment, emphasizing the dilemmas that they faced. It addresses such questions as: what problems did they confront?; what were the pros and cons of various options?; how were dilemmas resolved?; and were the solutions good ones?

The chapters in this volume build upon the social identity theory-based assumption that people create a social self. They utilize information about the groups to which they belong to inform their sense of themselves, shaping their social selves in terms of those categories.

This volume offers a guide to the future of agenda-setting for those already reasonably well-versed in the research of the last 25 years. The theoretical essays build on research in Shaw and McComb's "Public Opinion Quarterly" (1972), concerning the effects of various media and political agendas.

A volume based on presentations made at a conference on "Cognitive and Linguistic Foundations of Reading Acquisition: Implications for Intervention Research". There are four sections: theoretical foundations, subtypes of dyslexia, beginning to read and spell, and implications for intervention.

Conceived as the successor to Gregg and Steinberg's "Cognitive Processes in Writing", this text takes a multidisciplinary approach to writing research. The authors describe their thinking and data in terms aimed at readers in psychology, English, education and linguistics.