This fourth edition introduces research methods as an integrated set of techniques for investigating social work research and practice problems.

This book offers guidance on reimagining stakeholder roles, research on best practices, principles for designing policies, and messages from thought leaders inside and outside the field of education.

Taking a "bi-level" approach, this book gives readers a complete picture of focus groups with coverage of both the "how-to" and the why, and argues against there being any one right way to do the research.

This book guides principals on how to utilize their voice to influence policy and practices in order to successfully lead and support growth school-wide.

This comprehensive text introduces regression, the general linear model, structural equation modeling, the hierarchical linear model, growth curve models, panel data, and event history models, and includes discussion of published implementations of each technique showing how it was used to address substantive and interesting research questions. It takes a step-by-step approach in the presentation of each topic, using mathematical derivations where necessary, but primarily emphasizing how the ...

With ready-to-use tools, this guide will help school leaders connect people, build trust, discover strengths, and clear barriers to improve teacher effectiveness - and ultimately raise student achievement.

Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported.

With three main areas of focus, this forward-thinking book provides practical strategies and tools to maintain positive change within any school.

Develop concrete instructional strategies that support students' capacity to reason-and-prove across all mathematical content areas in 6-12 classrooms, while becoming adept at reasoning-and-proving.

Help your students develop their leadership and management skills. The new edition of this established core text covers important topics such as stress, decision-making, motivation, leadership, teams, communication, and change. Cases, self-assessment exercises, and numerous examples provide students with the opportunity to apply concepts and theories discussed in the chapter.