An essential text on approaching assessment for all Certificate in Education and Training learners, no matter which awarding organisation they are registered with.

With chapter sequencing following the new Curriculum, this book supports trainee teachers to make use of the opportunities presented in the National Curriculum for effective and engaging Primary Science teaching.

If you're struggling with writing your dissertation, or need to write up a practical report as part of your placement, discover how to craft your writing into a well-written project. Using the 'six Ps' - pondering, preparing, planning, pausing, producing and polishing - you'll learn how to produce a persuasive piece of writing, whatever you're studying.

This book explores recent developments and debates around researching ethically and with integrity, and complying with ethical requirements, and has been updated and expanded to now cover issues relating to international, indigenous, interdisciplinary and internet research.

Incorporating recurring case studies, student real life examples, and packed with exercises, chapter objectives and suggestions for further reading, this highly practical guide encourages personal development and ensures that trainees and qualified therapists get the most, both professionally and personally, from their practice-based research.

This book explores the fun things researchers can do with logistic regression, explicates and simplifies the confounding complexities of understanding what logistic regression is, and provides evidence-based guidance as to what the best practices in performing logistic regression are.

Offers an examination of social policy through a social constructivist and economic lens. This book illuminates the root causes of common social problems and how policy has attempted to ameliorate them. It focuses on how social policies in the United States can be transformed to promote social justice for all groups.

A companion guide to Positive Behavior Support at the Tertiary Level: Red Zone Strategies (Riffel, 2011), focused on tier two small group interventions. Topics include establishing procedures and routines, working in small groups and conducting individualized interventions in the classroom, managing transitions, and following up to measure effectiveness.

For both administrators and teachers, the book discusses several ways to empower teachers and students, including, cultivating the experts at your school, revitalizing the staff meeting, changing classroom setup and giving students a voice.

A interdisciplinary, student focused exploration of contemporary global urban economies. It covers the theoretical alongside the empirical, with boxed examples and suggested reading and websites for every chapter.