This text introduces the foundations of the recently revised professional educational leadership standards and provides an in-depth explanation and application of each one.

This text presents a comprehensive model for ethical decision-making built around real-life case studies, helping readers to understand mental health ethics and the dilemmas within it.

Program Evaluation: Embedding Evaluation into Program Design and Development provides an in-depth examination of the foundations, methods, and relevant issues in the field of evaluation. With an emphasis on an embedded approach, where evaluation is an explicit part of a program that leads to the refinement of the program, students will learn how to conduct effective evaluations that foster continual improvement and enable data-based decision making. This text provides students with both the t...

This solid, sustainable, and laser-sharp focus on instructional leadership helps leaders hone, model and lead new learning through deliberate practice.

Mediation Theory and Practice, Third Edition introduces students to the process of mediation by using practical examples that show students how to better manage conflicts and resolve disputes. Authors Suzanne McCorkle and Melanie J. Reese help students to understand the research and theory that underlie mediation, as well as provide students with the foundational skills a mediator must possess in any context, including issue identification, setting the agenda for negotiation, problem solving,...

Designed to reduces students' anxieties and minimize unnecessary formulas, this fourth edition provides a comprehensive introduction to basic statistical designs and analyses.

This text is an introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methods for undergraduate students majoring in Human Development and Family Studies, and now includes useful applications and key examples from human development.

Understanding Racism systematically examines the theories and theorists that have contributed the most to our contemporary understanding of racism in its various forms—making it easier for students to understand the multiple dynamics of how racism operates.

Secondary Data in Mixed Methods Research by Daphne C. Watkins, is the latest contribution to the Mixed Methods Research Series. This brief text offers step-by-step procedures for incorporating existing data into mixed methods research designs, as well as identifying characteristics of datasets that make them good candidates for mixed methods projects.

Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences combines an engaging style with solid pedagogical elements and carefully developed problems and exercises.