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This go-to guide covers both the historical background to the emergence of survey research and the practical tools necessary to write survey questions, design a questionnaire, use probability sampling and to understand both pretesting and data collection.

Fully updated edition of essential resource for all who work with children under three, combining theory and practice.

Your Foundation in Health & Social Care provides readers with all the knowledge and skills necessary for effective learning at Foundation level, both in study and the workplace. It explores all the key areas of the Foundation degree, including values, communication, legal issues and psychology.

Your Foundation in Health & Social Care provides readers with all the knowledge and skills necessary for effective learning at Foundation level, both in study and the workplace. It explores all the key areas of the Foundation degree, including values, communication, legal issues and psychology.

Exploring essential topics, this text covers themes and issues for students studying social policy or related disciplines such as sociology, social work, or nursing and social care.

By examining how young children develop and learn from conception through to the age of eight, this book explores ways to enhance professional practice in the early years. For further discussion and engagement with current issues and hot topics in Early Childhood subscribe to Sheila Nutkin's author blog.

Edited by the leading figures in the field, with contributions and editorial board support from the most prominent names in family business, the handbook reflects on the development and present status of the field in terms of applied theories, methods, chosen research issues and theoretical contributions.

As an introduction to the basic principles of research theory and practice, this book is the ideal starter text for any counselling trainee or practitioner learning about the research process for the very first time.

A practical toolkit and essential guide to teaching and training vocational learners across all settings.

Structured as a series of probing questions, and covering a range of methods, this book reflects on the challenge posed by the idea that social research should serve evidence-based practice.

'An excellent resource for primary Humanities undergraduate trainees. It provides reflective opportunities for intending subject leaders.' - Mrs Marion Hobbs, Education, Edge Hill University

Enables practitioners, scholars and academics to understand how to re-design or suggest changes to curriculum structure, shape and content.

While exploring your nearby history, you will find that your community's schools have helped to shape its traditions and culture. This book helps you figure out what the schools in your community do and how they fit into the social and cultural context of your area.

This book discusses the nature of design, design notation, a flexible approach to new designs, a range of standard design models, and tips for real-life problems - all in an easy to understand style, for those wanting to design research and make critical judgements about the designs of others

A quick reference guide to educational assessment, explains all key terms and provides further reading suggestions.

This snappy guide focuses on the practical and ethical issues surrounding research with children - with a particular focus on working with vulnerable groups.

This collection, drawing together key contributions on observation methods in social research, provides comprehensive coverage of the historical development of observational methods and techniques and offers analytic reflection on the various issues involved in the scientific practice of observation.

A new textbook for those training to teach in secondary schools, focusing on how research can be used to inform good teaching and structured around professional studies modules which are at the heart of all teacher training courses.

A new textbook for those training to teach in secondary schools, focusing on how research can be used to inform good teaching and structured around professional studies modules which are at the heart of all teacher training courses.

Finally there is a key concepts book in hospitality management available on the market! Tailored to your course structure and written with your needs in mind, as well as being international in its core (contributors from around the globe), this makes out for an excellent companion throughout your hospitality degree.

Finally there is a key concepts book in hospitality management available on the market! Tailored to your course structure and written with your needs in mind, as well as being international in its core (contributors from around the globe), this makes out for an excellent companion throughout your hospitality degree.

This comprehensive and illustrative collection brings together literature to inform researchers about the many issues that have influenced and continue to refine the use of experimental designs in the behavioral and social sciences.

Providing a general framework for thinking about corporate environmentalism and the greening of organizations, this collection serves as a foundational resource for those interested in developing new theories, including researchers and students, as well as environmental policy experts in business and government around the world.

A practical introduction developed to underpin core aspects of commissioning services in health and social care with tools and strategies that really work, this is a step-by-step guide to the commissioning process and will help the reader better understand the skills required for good commissioning, the challenges they may face and how to approach them and what makes a good commissioning manager.

This comprehensive textbook presents a thorough understanding of abnormal psychology with a focus on the integration of psychology, biology and health and is supported by interactive learning features for undergraduate students.

Written by a team of experts and with contributions from seminal academics and leading practitioners, this text provides the concise link between theoretical learning and the key practical skills needed to increase students' grades and employability.

Bringing together seminal texts from diverse sources, this four-volume set - opening with an illuminating introduction from the editor - seeks to organize the field of social marketing, highlight its global scope and contributions, and present its current growth and dynamism.

Providing practical tools to demonstrate how music can develop key literacy skills in children

Always engaging and relentlessly pushing the boundaries, this is a must-read from a pioneer in realist research.

A practical guide to coaching in your school or setting.