Defines the distinctive set of psychometric and operational principles which, when combined with specialized statistical applications of correlation and factor-analysis techniques, provide researchers with a systematic and rigorously quantitative means for examining human subjectivity.

Giving guidance on issues from ways to improve your writing, to identifying your learning preferences, to dealing with emotional blocks, this text presents you with expert advice on the entire dissertation process.

Offering a systematic approach, this book bridges theoretical concepts with practical, how-to knowledge to support monitoring and evaluation training that makes a difference.

Offers a collection for building a world-class professional learning program. This book closes the "knowing-doing" gap by guiding educational leaders through the process for implementing the Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning.

A practical guide to working with people suffering from depression. It outlines how to work with general negativity, sense of failure and abandonment, and feelings of powerlessness, anger, shame and guilt. It examines the essential stages of the therapeutic process from conceptualization and formulation through to a wide variety of interventions.

Part of the Key Concepts in Human Geography series, this is an ideal companion text for students of historical geography. A broad and detailed book from team of leading geographers.

The guide for novice researchers who want to master how to produce first-class research their contemporaries will want to read!

Walking the reader through the steps of statistical tests and providing data sets and screen shots from SPSS, this student-friendly book helps students to successfully use statistical tests in SPSS, interpret the results and also to understand statistical concepts.

A compact and accessible book that links issues regarding post-modern society to the ideas and individuals that gave rise to sociological thinking in the late 19th century.

This book describes a research-based model for creating intervention plans to modify extremely challenging behavior. Included are success stories and tools, including analysis forms, charts, and templates.