Exploring the U.S. Census gives social science students and researchers the tools to understand, extract, process, and analyze census data, including the American Community Survey and other datasets. This text provides background on the data collection methods, structures, and potential pitfalls for unfamiliar researchers with applied exercises and software walk-throughs.

Connecting career aspirations with the post-college world is crucial for students today. Careers in Psychology, Fifth Edition helps students navigate and plan for their futures by offering exposure to the rich careers in each subfield of psychology and prompting students to consider the what, why and how of each option.Â

Introduces practicing educators to the process of conducting classroom-based action research with a focus on research methods and procedures that educators can use with their everyday instructional practices, classroom activities, and school procedures.

Detailing the steps involved in planning and carrying out a comprehensive approach to monitoring a process or new programme, policy or practice implementation in an organization, this book will develop students' skills in program evaluation, specifically in implementation monitoring.

Containing numerous step-by-step examples throughout, this new edition introduces readers to how to use IBM SPSS to plan a study, prepare data for analysis, perform the analysis and interpret the output.

This easy-to-use primer includes practical tools for integrating cloud computing into teaching, real-life examples, step-by-step directions for classroom activities, and strategies for ensuring safety.

Prepares social science students to conduct their own social network analysis (SNA) by covering basic methodological tools along with illustrative examples from various fields.

A great resource for teaching assistants, NQTs, and school leaders and principlas wishing to establish a collaborative and consistent SEN setting where their students feel safe and successful.

This book is intended to help students and professionals become more aware of group decision making processes and how each member contributes to it to make better quality decisions.

The comprehensiveness of this text, coupled with the opportunity to learn from the most prominent theorists and leadership scholars today, makes this an indispensable text for courses in leadership.