Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Education & Training

• A concise and accessible guide to teaching introductory courses in Psychology
  
• Begins with an orienting history of the course- Evaluates current trends in teaching and offers suggestions for developing personal techniques
  
• Addresses a number of relevant...

• A concise and accessible guide to teaching introductory courses in Psychology
  
• Begins with an orienting history of the course- Evaluates current trends in teaching and offers suggestions for developing personal techniques
  
• Addresses a number of relevant...

• Offers novel, nontraditional approaches to teaching critical thinking, including strategies, tactics, diversity issues, service learning, and the use of case studies
• Provides new course delivery formats by which faculty can create online course materials to foster critical thinking within a diverse student audience
• Places specific emphasis on how to both teach and assess critical thinking in the classroom, as well...

Your students will get valuable practice in interpreting actual excerpts from published test manuals.

Each of the 39 exercises begins with a guideline that helps students review the measurement concepts they will need in order to complete the exercise.

Background notes on each exercise describe the purpose of the test from which the excerpt was drawn.

Students answer questions that require them to locate and interpret important points in the excerpt.

The excerpts are largely unabridged so that students practice interpreting material as it is actually presented by test...

" This book] is solid in its topic coverage and delivery... Readers will glean a multitude of new ideas from the theories and approaches presented in this book, ranging from cultural aspects of teaching to Sternberg's WICS model."

--Doody's

This book serves as a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art in educational psychology and applied cognitive science. The chapter authors, who are all leading researchers in this field, provide reviews of contemporary discoveries related to educational research that are both novel and forward-thinking. The book contains the...

After graduating, students in social work are faced with the daunting and stressful decision of choosing their specialty from the many that are available to them. JessicaRosenberg has designed this guidebook to make this process easier, providing students with real world and practical information about what it is really like to work as a social worker. Each chapter covers a different practice setting, such as child welfare, gerontology, and addictions, and follows the same format.

The Field Overview and Forecast describes the social worker's role, scope of services, and...

After graduating, students in social work are faced with the daunting and stressful decision of choosing their specialty from the many that are available to them. JessicaRosenberg has designed this guidebook to make this process easier, providing students with real world and practical information about what it is really like to work as a social worker. Each chapter covers a different practice setting, such as child welfare, gerontology, and addictions, and follows the same format.

The Field Overview and Forecast describes the social worker's role, scope of services, and...

Providing an evidence-based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence. Various types of violence are reviewed including physical and sexual abuse, (cyber-)bullying, human trafficking, online predators, abductions, and war. In addition, it reviews the various perpetrators of such violence including parents and relatives, strangers, other children, and societal institutions. The possible outcomes of such violence including physical injuries, death, depression, anxiety,...

The strategies presented here have been designed to help...

Career development - the processes that shape a person's career over his or her life - is a relatively new field of research in applied psychology. In A Quality of Life Approach to Career Development, Geoffrey S. Peruniak draws from philosophy, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, political science, and economics to form a new, holistic approach to career development that extends beyond paid work to include all aspects of life. Emphasizing that a person is a whole entity rather than a role or category, Peruniak also explores nature and the place of community in...