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  • Dynamics of Skill Acquisition

    An Ecological Dynamics Approach

    by Chris Button, Ludovic Seifert, Jia Yi Chow, Duarte Araujo, Keith Davids ...
    Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes underlying human skill acquisition. As the first text to outline the multidisciplinary ecological dynamics framework for understanding movement behavior, this heavily updated edition stays on the cutting edge, with principles of nonlinear pedagogy and methodologies from the constraints-led approach.Students and ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition

    An Introduction

    by Jia Yi Chow, Keith Davids, Chris Button, Ian Renshaw ...
    Nonlinear Pedagogy is a powerful paradigm for understanding human movement and for designing effective teaching, coaching and training programmes in sport, exercise and physical education (PE). It addresses the inherent complexity in learning movement skills, viewing the learner, the learning environment and the teacher or coach as a complex interacting system. The constraints of individual ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Complex Systems in Sport

    Edited by Keith Davids, Robert Hristovski, Duarte Araújo, Natalia Balague Serre, Chris Button, Pedro Passos ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science
    Complex systems in nature are those with many interacting parts, all capable of influencing global system outcomes. There is a growing body of research that has modeled sport performance from a complexity sciences perspective, studying the behavior of individual athletes and sports teams as emergent phenomena which self-organise under interacting constraints.This book is the first to bring ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Intelligence Redefined

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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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  • Honest Signals

    How They Shape Our World

    by Alex Pentland ...
    How understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations.How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writes Alex Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them. These unconscious social signals ... 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

    $18.99 USD

  • 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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  • Creativity and Innovation

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    by Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D. ...
    Creativity and innovation are frequently mentioned as key 21st-century skills for career and life success. Indeed, recent research provides evidence that the jobs of the future will increasingly require the ability to bring creative solutions to complex problems. And creativity is often the spice of life, that little extra something that makes the mundane into the interesting, making our routines ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • How the Gifted Brain Learns

    Edited by David A. Sousa ...
    "Pulls many areas of gifted research, knowledge, and applications together in a clear and concise manner. This is a one-stop book for teachers who have high-ability/gifted students in a classroom and need to understand how these students′ brains work and how to plan effective instruction."—Mary Beth Cary, TeacherWorth County Primary School, Sylvester GAIdentify, understand, and engage the full ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Motor Learning and Skill Acquisition

    Applications for Physical Education and Sport

    by Michael Spittle ...
    Integrating theory with practice, this core textbook provides a structured and sequential introduction to motor learning and motor control. Part 1 begins by introducing what motor learning is and how movement is controlled, before exploring how a learning environment may be manipulated to assist in the learning and performance of movement skills. Part 2 explores motor control from neural, ... 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