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Bickel, Robert – Guilford Publications, 2007
This book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to multilevel modeling, a powerful tool for analyzing relationships between an individual level dependent variable, such as student reading achievement, and individual-level and contextual explanatory factors, such as gender and neighborhood quality. Helping readers build on the statistical…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Social Sciences, Statistical Analysis, Structural Equation Models
Stufflebeam, Daniel L.; Shinkfield, Anthony J. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2007
"Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications" is designed for evaluators and students who need to develop a commanding knowledge of the evaluation field: its history, theory and standards, models and approaches, procedures, and inclusion of personnel as well as program evaluation. This important book shows how to choose from a growing…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Standards, Glossaries
Robertson, William C. – National Science Teachers Association (NJ3), 2005
Shocked by static? Mixed up about magnets? Curious about currents? Teachers can get past memorizing all those electricity-related formulas, rules, and procedures so they can understand the subject at a level deep enough to teach it with confidence and comfort. Here to help is "Electricity and Magnetism," the fifth title in the award-winning NSTA…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Science Teachers, Information Needs, Energy
Black, Christine Kahan – 1989
Historically in the United States, few people with disabilities have enrolled in science-related courses or entered scientific careers in part because high schools and colleges have not offered accessible training to this population. This document is the teaching and resource guide that accompanies a 30-minute video program in career development…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Awareness, Demand Occupations, Disabilities
Tomasulo, Daniel J. – 1998
Group psychotherapy has emerged as an exceptionally efficient and cost-effective means of delivering mental health services. The use of action methods to activate and enhance dynamic interactions between members has been central to the origin and evolution of group therapy. This book is intended for use by counseling students or counseling…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Developmental Disabilities
Yager, Robert E. – National Science Teachers Association (NJ3), 2005
Nine years after the National Science Education Standards' release, just how well do science teachers in grades 5 to 8 actually use them to plan content, define improved teaching, and assess real learning? Find out the answers to these key questions in this groundbreaking collection of 15 essays by teachers, researchers, and professors whose…
Descriptors: Essays, Science Teachers, Grade 5, Educational Strategies
Zehm, Stanley J.; Kottler, Jeffrey A. – 1993
This volume lays out the human factors involved in effective teaching and encourages both future teachers and current practitioners to cultivate the personal and professional qualities found in the kind of teachers they want to be. The single most important factor in a teacher's effectiveness is described as his or her unique style of interaction…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Preservice Teachers