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When Parents Are Incarcerated: Interdisciplinary Research and Interventions to Support Children. APA Bronfenbrenner Series on the Ecology of Human Development
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Wildeman, Christopher, Ed.; Haskins, Anna R., Ed.; Poehlmann-Tynan, Julie, Ed. – APA Books, 2017
In the United States today, roughly 1 in 25 children has a parent in prison. This insightful volume provides an authoritative, multidisciplinary analysis of how parental incarceration affects children and what can be done to help them. The contributors to this book apply a wide array of tools and perspectives to the study of children of…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Parents, Educational Research
Treatment Integrity: A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice in Applied Psychology. Applying Psychology in the Schools Series
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Sanetti, Lisa M. H., Ed.; Kratochwill, Thomas R., Ed. – APA Books, 2014
Treatment integrity, in its broadest sense, is the extent to which an intervention is implemented as intended. Over the past 3 decades, understanding of treatment integrity has greatly evolved. This book summarizes the current state of our knowledge of treatment integrity on such topics as: (1) how it fits into the larger contexts of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Implementation, Evidence Based Practice, Ethics
High-Stakes Testing in Education: Science and Practice in K-12 Settings
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Bovaird, James A., Ed.; Geisinger, Kurt F., Ed.; Buckendahl, Chad W., Ed. – APA Books, 2011
Educational assessment and, more broadly, educational research in the United States have entered into an era characterized by a dramatic increase in the prevalence and importance of test score use in accountability systems. This volume covers a selection of contemporary issues about testing science and practice that impact the nation's public…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Test Use, Student Placement, Educational Research