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This text features essays that address the topic of equivalence in measurement. Among the issues covered are: perceptions of organizational politics in the USA and the Middle East; the importance of measurement equivalence in transnational research; and Alpha, Beta and Gamma change.

This title provides an introduction and overview of the relationship between education policy, research and professional practice in science education, as well as perspectives on the relationship between science education policy, research and professional practice for the 21st century.

Part of the ""Research in Second Language Learning"" series, this book addresses such issues as: teaching a foreign language to at-risk learners; literacy in digital environments; electronic message boards in the foreign language classroom; and advanced second language readers' inferencing.

This title provides an introduction and overview of the relationship between education policy, research and professional practice in science education, as well as perspectives on the relationship between science education policy, research and professional practice for the 21st century.

This text is divided into four parts: exploring theoretical paradigms in design, development and enactment of PDSs; standard-based teacher education and PDSs; ""best practices"" profiles of PDSs that advance understanding of research in the field; and toward a research agenda that strengthens PDSs.

A discussion of technology and entrepreneurship. The papers are divided into three sections which focus on: the context of technological entrepreneurship; venture capital in technological entrepreneurship; and case studies in technological entrepreneurship - managing in turbulent environments.

This text is divided into four parts: exploring theoretical paradigms in design, development and enactment of PDSs; standard-based teacher education and PDSs; ""best practices"" profiles of PDSs that advance understanding of research in the field; and toward a research agenda that strengthens PDSs.

A discussion of technology and entrepreneurship. The papers are divided into three sections which focus on: the context of technological entrepreneurship; venture capital in technological entrepreneurship; and case studies in technological entrepreneurship - managing in turbulent environments.

This volume is about how to train the teachers of an increasing multilingual and multicultural American school population. This review contains research on effective pedagogy and teacher training, and is concerned with new structures and practices for professional development.

This volume is about how to train the teachers of an increasing multilingual and multicultural American school population. This review contains research on effective pedagogy and teacher training, and is concerned with new structures and practices for professional development.

These essays look at topics concerning multicultural education and international perspectives, including the impact of disadvantage on academic achievement, immigration policy and multicultural education in Australia, and how motivation and learning affects students of diverse backgrounds.

These essays look at topics concerning multicultural education and international perspectives, including the impact of disadvantage on academic achievement, immigration policy and multicultural education in Australia, and how motivation and learning affects students of diverse backgrounds.

This handbook covers such research issues in middle level education as advisory programmes, teaming, effective teachers, staffing, and teacher preparation programmes.

This handbook covers such research issues in middle level education as advisory programmes, teaming, effective teachers, staffing, and teacher preparation programmes.

This text addresses methods of evaluating technology in education and covers such topics as: how we know if technology works; collaborative learning; learner-centred design; multiple stakeholder needs; and that data that influence educatiuonal technology policy.

This text investigates issues surrounding the creation of social policy and support systems for children and families in the emerging democracy in eastern Europe. Approaches advocated by progressively oriented Lithuanian educators, mental health and human service professionals are presented.

Covering such issues as teaching quality, the interface between public and private schooling, and measuring school efficiency, this text addresses the improvement of educational productivity in the USA.

This volume contains selected papers presented at meetings of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History across the past decade, along with several specially commissioned papers from senior scholars in the field. The book considers the dimensions and development of the American curriculum.

This text examines mentoring with a focus on enhancing opportunities for those traditionally ignored in the mentoring process. It includes chapters about metoring in a variety of settings with varied populations to capture the essence of the experience.

This book is divided into seven chapters including: a broad overview of mathematical cognition; development of mathematical cognition; working memory, automaticity and mathematical problem solving; mathematical problem solving; and methematical learning disabilities.

This text looks at how the study of play has gained attention and concerns about play in young children have emerged. Ten chapters examine the understanding of play and its theories, play in school, pre-school and theories of pretence, mental representation and humour development.

This volume on literacy in early childhood education covers topics such as: teachers' roles in promoting literacy-related play; hypermediating literacy activity; creating opportunities for discourse; bridging home and school literacy; and engaging children in the appropriation of literacy.

This book is divided into 12 chapters including: developmental play theories and children's social pretend play; developments in young children's mathematical reasoning; learning and teaching with computers in early childhood education; and early childhood social studies.

This book is divided into 12 chapters including: developmental play theories and children's social pretend play; developments in young children's mathematical reasoning; learning and teaching with computers in early childhood education; and early childhood social studies.

A study of trends in management consulting at the beginning of the new millennium. The contributions are divided into three sections addressing: the consulting industry; trends and techniques in management consulting; and reflections on management consulting.

Sections covered in this book include: defining virtual organizations and implications for human resource management; outsourcing human resources; job analysis and competency assessment; training and development; performance management; compensation; and negotiations.

This volume includes essays on fairness heuristic thoery, the problem of over and under emphasis of cultural differences and fairness as deonance. It also offers a categorization approach to fairness judgements, and asks if fairness is possible in disputes among nationally-different employees.

This volume includes essays on fairness heuristic thoery, the problem of over and under emphasis of cultural differences and fairness as deonance. It also offers a categorization approach to fairness judgements, and asks if fairness is possible in disputes among nationally-different employees.