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  • Continuous Improvement

    Intertwining Mind and Body in Athletic Expertise

    by John Toner, Barbara Montero, Aidan Moran ...
    How do great athletes defy the power law of practice, according to which improvements in skill eventually plateau? Commentators and spectators alike are fascinated by how athletes such as Roger Federer, Tom Brady, and Serena Williams are capable both of moments of exquisite brilliance and of sustaining such excellence over a prolonged period. But what separates these great athletes from those who ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Economics and the Mind

    by Barbara Montero, Mark D. White ...
    Series series Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
    Economics is often defined as the science of choice or human action. But choice and action are essentially mental phenomena, an aspect rarely mentioned in the economics discourse. Choice, while not always a conscious or rational process, is held to involve beliefs, desires, intentions and arguably even free will. Actions are often opposed to mere bodily movements, with the former being in some ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Intelligence Redefined

    by Scott Barry Kaufman ...
    Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest of us have little chance of realizing our dreams. Right?In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman -- who was relegated ... Read more

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  • Visible Learning and the Science of How we Learn

    by John Hattie, Gregory C. R. Yates ...
    On publication in 2009 John Hattie’s Visible Learning presented the biggest ever collection of research into what actually work in schools to improve children’s learning. Not what was fashionable, not what political and educational vested interests wanted to champion, but what actually produced the best results in terms of improving learning and educational outcomes. It became an instant ... Read more

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  • Embedded Formative Assessment

    by Dylan Wiliam ...
    Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it’s viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer ... Read more

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  • Sport Psychology

    A complete introduction

    by John Perry ...
    Think about your favourite sport. Now ask yourself how much of success in that sport is down to physical skills and how much is down to mental skills?We all know that physical skills are vital for performance and understand about training them. We know that psychology is important too, but what people actually do to understand and train in it is less well known. Sport Psychology: A complete ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • NLP for Teachers

    How to be a Highly Effective Teacher

    by Richard Churches, Roger Terry ...
    NLP for Teachers covers a wide range of practical tools that will enhance your interpersonal effectiveness and classroom delivery. Find out how both your language and your internal processing affects the behaviour of others around you; Learn some amazing tools and techniques; Take your communication skills to the next level ... Read more

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  • The ABCs of How We Learn

    26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them

    by Daniel L. Schwartz, Jessica M. Tsang, Kristen P. Blair ...
    Selected as one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, this book offers superior learning tools for teachers and students, from A to Z.An explosive growth in research on how people learn has revealed many ways to improve teaching and catalyze learning at all ages. The purpose of this book is to present this new science of learning so that educators can creatively translate the science into exceptional ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Psych 101 Series Sampler (eBook)

    Introductions to Key Topics in Psychology

    by Springer Publishing Company ...
    The Psych 101 eBook Sampler is a collection of excerpts (including all introductory pages and the first chapter) from each of the books in the Psych 101 series. This series offers short, reader-friendly introductions to cutting-edge topics in psychology. With key concepts, controversial topics, and fascinating accounts of up-to-the-minute research, it is an invaluable resource for all students of ... Read more

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  • Embedded Formative Assessment

    (Strategies for Classroom Assessment That Drives Student Engagement and Learning)

    by Dylan Wiliam ...
    By integrating classroom formative assessment practices into daily activities, educators can substantially increase student engagement and the rate of student learning. The second edition of this best-selling book by Dylan Wiliam presents new research, insights, and formative assessment strategies teachers can immediately apply in their classrooms. Updated examples and templates are included to ... Read more

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  • Motivation 101

    Edited by James B. Schreiber, PhD ...
    What drives people toward their goals? Does motivation come from outside the individual or from within? This is a concise, engaging overview of leading theories and the wide body of research about this core concept in psychology. It draws from a broad spectrum of psychological models and disciplines, and focuses on how various theories of motivation define and examine different motivational ... Read more

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  • The Road To Excellence

    the Acquisition of Expert Performance in the Arts and Sciences, Sports, and Games

    Edited by K. Anders Ericsson ...
    Excellence and the highest levels of performance in the arts and sciences, sports, and games have always been an object of fascination to both scientists and lay people. Only during the last 20 years have scientists studied these levels of performance in the laboratory in order to identify their mediating mechanisms. Contrary to the common belief that innate talents are the critical factors for ... Read more

    $79.99 USD