A practical book that shows how both Excel (R) and SPSS (R) can be used for analyzing data for human service evaluation.

This book adopts a unique strengths-based approach in teaching students to focus on the positive attributes of individual clients and incorporate those strengths, along with other essential cultural considerations, into their diagnosis and treatment.

This book provides students and managers alike with the guidance, tools, and examples needed to develop leadership talent and inspire performance.

A leading Professor of Retail Marketing presents 5 new frames through which students and practitioners can understand and approach the evolving environment of retailing today: Entrepreneurial mindset, Excitement, Education, Experience, and Engagement.

Through a series of examples of statistics in the media, this book shows you how to critically assess the presentation of data in the media, to identify what is significant and to sort verifiable conclusions from misleading claims.

Rules and codes for healthcare professionals continue to proliferate yet are unable to offer practical advice in specific circumstances. To help balance official rules with the variable, unique human element, David Seedhouse and Vanessa Peutherer explain what personal judgement is and how it can be applied routinely and effectively in everyday decision-making in healthcare.

An invaluable step-by-step, pedagogically engaging guide to data management in R for social science researchers. This book shows students how to recode and document data, as well as how to combine data from different sources, or import from statistical packages other than R.

Growth Mindsets are recognized as a powerful teaching and learning tool in the UK and this book offers clear guidance that is backed up by research and avoids quick fixes or suggestions with little evidence base. The text will appeal to teachers as a pragmatic and trusted guide to a well-known strategy proven to enhance learning.

Questioning Performance Measurement: Metrics, Organizations and Power is the first book to interrogate the organizational turn towards performance metrics critically. Performance measurement is used to evaluate a diverse range of activities throughout the private, public and non-governmental sectors. But in an increasingly data driven world, what does it really mean to measure ‘performance’?