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  • Understanding Education Research

    A Guide to Critical Reading

    by Gary Shank, Janice Pringle ...
    Now in its third edition, Understanding Education Research is designed to help students learn to read educational research articles carefully, systematically, and critically.Readers learn how to categorize titles, decode abstracts, find research questions, characterize research arguments, break down methods and procedures, explore references, apply analysis strategies, and interpret findings. This ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Understanding Education Research

    A Guide to Critical Reading

    by Gary Shank, Janice Pringle ...
    Understanding Education Research, 2nd Edition is designed to help students learn to read educational research articles carefully, systematically, and critically. Readers will learn how to categorize titles, decode abstracts, find research questions, characterize research arguments, break down methods and procedures, explore references, apply analysis strategies, and interpret findings. This ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Exploring Educational Research Literacy

    by Gary Shank, Launcelot Brown ...
    Exploring Educational Research Literacy offers beginning classroom teachers a comprehensive introduction to the topic of educational research literacy—that is, the ability to read educational research articles in a systemic and critical way. Many beginning teacher education students are expected to be familiar with the latest research in their field, but are not necessarily researchers themselves. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

    by Keith E. Stanovich ...
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  • Research Methods for Everyday Life

    Blending Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

    by Scott W. VanderStoep, Deidre D. Johnson ...
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    This book offers an innovative introduction to social research. The book explores all stages of the research process and it features both quantitative and qualitative methods. Research design topics include sampling techniques, choosing a research design, and determining research question that inform public opinion and direct future studies. Throughout the book, the authors provide vivid and ... Read more

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  • Homo Prospectus

    by Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, Chandra Sripada ...
    Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evaluating future possibilities for the guidance of thought and action that is the cornerstone of human success. Much of the ... 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 Wiley Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science

    by Steven C. Hayes, Robert D. Zettle, Anthony Biglan, Dermot Barnes-Holmes ...
    Series series Wiley Clinical Psychology Handbooks
    The Wiley Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science describes the philosophical and empirical foundation of the contextual behavioral science movement; it explores the history and goals of CBS, explains its core analytic assumptions, and describes Relational Frame Theory as a research and practice program.This is the first thorough examination of the philosophy, basic science, applied science, and ... Read more

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  • Adult Learning and Development

    Perspectives From Educational Psychology

    Edited by M. Cecil Smith, Thomas Pourchot ...
    Series series Educational Psychology Series
    Adult education occurs whenever individuals engage in sustained, systematic learning in order to affect changes in their attitudes, knowledge, skills, or belief systems. Learning, instruction, and developmental processes are the primary foci of educational psychology research and theorizing, but educational psychologists' work in these domains has centered primarily on the childhood and adolescent ... Read more

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  • Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science

    An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior

    Edited by David Sloan Wilson, PhD, Steven C. Hayes, PhD ...
    What do evolutionary science and contextual behavioral science have in common? Edited by David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes, this groundbreaking book offers a glimpse into the histories of these two schools of thought, and provides a sound rationale for their reintegration.Evolutionary science (ES) provides a unifying theoretical framework for the biological sciences, and is increasingly being ... Read more

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  • The Ecology of Human Development

    Experiments by Nature and Design

    by Urie Bronfenbrenner ...
    Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world’s foremost developmental psychologists, laboratory studies of the child’s behavior sacrifice too much in order to gain experimental control and analytic rigor. Laboratory observations, he argues, too often lead to “the science of the strange ... Read more

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