Discover how inquiry leads to problem-solving and learn specific steps for formative assessment that informs instruction of 21st century skills such as critical thinking and collaboration.

Clearly outlines a professional development program to raise staff's cultural competence to teach diverse students. Outlines how to plan and fund the program, and includes hands-on tools. Teachers increase understanding of themselves, their students, and their families. Involves self-reflection, innovation, and collaboration to transform school culture.

This is a core textbook designed to prepare literacy educators to conduct reading and writing assessments and to help them develop appropriate corrective literacy strategies for use with their students.

This interdisciplinary text examines five different components of family health--biology, behavior, social-cultural circumstances, the environment, and health care--and the ways they affect the abilities of family members to perform well in their homes, workplaces, and communities.

Advocacy is an essential skill for social workers who need to be able to speak confidently on behalf of service-users in a range of situations. In this new book, Jane Dalrymple and Jane Boylan explore the theory and research behind advocacy and draw on a range of case studies to demonstrate how to achieve best practice.

The Third Edition of this much celebrated textbook continues to focus on the four major and influential perspectives in contemporary social psychology - social cognition, social identity, social representations, and discursive psychology.

This book sees leading national and international scholars provide a critical assessment of the relation between 'evidence' and contemporary youth justice policy formation, and it has been fully updated to recognize the major reforms of recent years in the youth justice policy environment.

Offering an in-depth study of validity, which forms an important part of education assessment, this book addresses complex concepts in a straightforward manner, while guiding the reader through the evolution of validity from the 19th century to the present day.

Taking exemplar lessons as a starting point for developing subject knowledge, this book supports trainee and current teachers explore the theory behind them and shape lesson plans to effectively teach number in Primary School.

Supports and inspires practitioners on how to research their implementation of meaningful and sustainable change in early childhood contexts.