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This text presents the basic concepts of modern cognitive psychology in a succinct and accessible manner, combining empirical results, theoretical developments and current issues to produce accounts of research areas. An explanation is provided of the "meta-assumptions" which underlie research.

Provides an account of the main techniques of perturbation expansions applied to both differential equations and integral expressions. The book is intended for students in engineering, applied and industrial mathematics, and fluid and computational mechanics.

Discusses the influence of environmental factors, such as irradiance, temperature, water and salinity on plant physiology and on vegetative and reproductive growth. This book focuses on a single crop, or a group of genetically or horticulturally related crop, and is divided into subsections that address individual environmental factors.

A presentation of ideas for the teaching of mathematics which encourages students to draw on their own knowledge and understanding of the subject, making the teaching and learning of mathematics a collaborative effort.

Analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. This work explores how governments use education to control their populations, and examines forms of education that claim to free people from authoritarian control.

Professional accountability has become central to both public and private sectors. This title bridges the apparent gap between practice and research to present a logical, systematic model to guide the professional thinking and action within the context of everyday professional life.

Presents the study of computer-mediated instruction in a US research university that is the site of nationally known innovations in this area. This book traces the organizational entanglements of a constantly reconfiguring network of people, things, categories, and ideas that are sometimes loosely, sometimes tightly entangled in forms of CMI.

Presents research findings about school-level and district-level practices and successful strategies employed in mathematics education by highly effective schools that serve high-poverty communities. This book includes both the theory and practice of creating highly effective schools in these communities.

Explores the ideological and attitudinal functions of schools, looking especially at what is called the 'hidden curriculum.' This book offers both an analysis of the role of education in producing and maintaining attitudes and values, and self-oriented culture and a different vision for what our schools should be about.

Examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis of this book is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states.

Illustrates the state of journalistic practice in the United States. This work looks at the demographic and educational backgrounds, working conditions, and professional and ethical values of print, broadcast, and Internet journalists at the beginning of the 21st century; providing results from telephone surveys of nearly 1,500 US journalists.

The book demonstrates how the research approach and design help determine the appropriate statistical analysis. This book is intended for practitioners and students.

Examines moments in traditions of appeals, warnings, demands, and debates to make explicit the connections between technological issues and African Americans' equal and just participation in American society. This volume is intended for researchers, professionals, and students in Rhetoric, Computers and Composition, and African American Studies.

Long-distance relationships have become a popular area of study, although limited work has been published. In response to this state of scholarship, Laura Stafford summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types, relating them to theory.

This book provides a review of personality and intelligence, as well as covering other variables underlying academic and occupational performance. It attempts to develop a comprehensive model to understand individual in an account of the relationship between major individual differences constructs.

This book is based on the premise that the theories on which the three dominant schools in psychology are based - psychodynamics, behavioral, and phenomenological - resulted in part from the personal experiences of the theorists who first originated them - Freud for psychodynamics, B.F. Skinner for behavioral, and Carl Rogers for phenomenological.

Containing practical, and useful information for professionals and individuals, this second edition summarizes the literature concerning ADHD across the lifespan. It offers an understanding of the disorder by addressing the potential causes of ADHD, the developmental course, and numerous treatment approaches.

The amount of information available for any realistic complex situation is likely to overwhelm most users as well as stymie any designer tasked with presenting the information. This book develops a foundation for analysis and design of the approaches to providing complex information in real-world situations.

Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing offers a theoretical framework, case studies and methods for evaluating student writing. By examining issues in writing assessment the book discovers four situated techniques of authentic assessment that are already in use at a number of locales throughout the US.