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  • The Harms of Grading in Higher Education

    Comparative Institutional Ethnographies of University Assessment Cultures

    by Dan Melzer ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This book examines the impacts of grading in higher education through comparative institutional ethnographies of two universities with radically different approaches to assessment.The Harms of Grading reports the results of institutional ethnographies at University of the Bay, which has an assessment culture that emphasizes harsh grading and difficult exams, and Forest College, which does not give ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Sustainable WAC

    A Whole Systems Approach to Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs

    by Michelle Cox, Jeffrey R. Galin, Dan Melzer ...
    Winner of the 2021 Association for Writing Across the Curriculum/WAC Clearinghouse award for Best WAC MonographA 2008 survey of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) programs found that nearly half of those identified in a 1987 survey no longer existed twenty years later, pointing to a need for an approach to WAC administration that leads to programs that persist over time. In Sustainable WAC, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engaging Ideas

    The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom

    by John C. Bean, Dan Melzer ...
    Use your course's big ideas to accelerate students’ growth as writers and critical thinkersThe newly revised third edition of Engaging Ideas delivers a step-by-step guide for designing writing assignments and critical thinking activities that engage students with important subject-matter questions. This new edition of the celebrated book (now written by the co-author team of Bean and Melzer) uses ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Reconstructing Response to Student Writing

    A National Study from across the Curriculum

    by Dan Melzer ...
    In Reconstructing Response to Student Writing Dan Melzer makes the argument that writing instructors should shift the construct so that peer response and student self-assessment are more central than teacher response.Presenting the results of a national study of teacher and peer response and student self-assessment at institutions of higher education across the United States, Melzer analyzes ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Assignments across the Curriculum

    A National Study of College Writing

    by Dan Melzer ...
    In Assignments across the Curriculum, Dan Melzer analyzes the rhetorical features and genres of writing assignments through the writing-to-learn and writing-in-the-disciplines perspectives. Presenting the results of his study of 2,101 writing assignments from undergraduate courses in the natural sciences, social sciences, business, and humanities in 100 postsecondary institutions in the United ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Strategy, HRM, and Performance

    A Contextual Approach

    by Elaine Farndale, Jaap Paauwe ...
    The book expounds the macro-level relationship between strategy, HRM, and performance, addressing important challenges that have constrained research and practice to date. Adopting a critical perspective, the first challenge is a narrow definition of 'performance' that has been largely driven by a managerialist, profit motive, with little regard for the human element. This book proposes adopting a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Constructing Grounded Theory

    by Kathy Charmaz ...
    Series series Introducing Qualitative Methods series
    Kathy Charmaz presents the definitive guide to doing grounded theory from a constructivist perspective. This second edition of her groundbreaking text retains the accessibility and warmth of the first edition whilst introducing cutting edge examples and practical tips.This expanded second edition:- explores how to effectively focus on data collection- demonstrates how to use data for theorizing- ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition

    Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies

    Edited by Linda Adler-Kassner, Elizabeth Wardle ...
    Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies, using the lens of “threshold concepts”—concepts that are critical for epistemological participation in a discipline. This edition focuses on the working definitions of thirty-seven threshold concepts that run throughout the research, teaching, assessment, and public work in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Men and Women of the Corporation

    New Edition

    by Rosabeth Moss Kanter ...
    In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Learning From Strangers

    The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies

    by Robert S. Weiss ...
    Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation -- an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both internal and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Planning Programs for Adult Learners

    A Practical Guide

    by Sandra Ratcliff Daffron, Rosemary S. Caffarella ...
    Strengthen your adult education program planning with this essential guidePlanning Programs for Adult Learners: A Practical Guide, 4th Edition is an interactive, practical, and essential guide for anyone involved with planning programs for adult learners. Containing extensive updates, refinements, and revisions to this celebrated book, this edition prepares those charged with planning programs for ... Read more

    $40.00 USD

  • Assessment Clear and Simple

    A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education

    by Barbara E. Walvoord ...
    The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education. With the increased pressure to perform assessment to demonstrate accountability, Assessment Clear and Simple is needed more than ever. This second edition of the classic resource offers a concise, step-by-step guide that helps make ... Read more

    $31.00 USD