Discusses the elderly and those who care for them, and offers a new look at their challenges and their role in shaping and changing society's view of them.
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Children and Computers in School
Betty A. Collis; Gerald A. Knezek; Kwok-Wing Lai; Keiko T. Miyashita; Willem J. Pelgrum
Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
1996
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This volume integrates research findings from three multinational studies conducted to examine the impact of children's use of computers in school. Conclusions are drawn from in-depth analyses of trends in more than 20 nations. Its seven authors from four nations were key researchers on these projects. Both a study and a product of the information age, this work is of prime importance to teachers, teacher educators, and school administrators. This work is unique in three important ways: * it presents data gathered in many regions of the world; * many of the authors are well-known and respected for their previous work in educational studies; and * the chapters are designed in such a way that the majority of the book is easily accessible to professionals such as classroom teachers who are interested primarily in findings, results, and outcomes rather than the methodology of the research.
Children and Computers in School
Betty A. Collis; Gerald A. Knezek; Kwok-Wing Lai; Keiko T. Miyashita; Willem J. Pelgrum
Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
1996
nidottu
This volume integrates research findings from three multinational studies conducted to examine the impact of children's use of computers in school. Conclusions are drawn from in-depth analyses of trends in more than 20 nations. Its seven authors from four nations were key researchers on these projects. Both a study and a product of the information age, this work is of prime importance to teachers, teacher educators, and school administrators. This work is unique in three important ways: * it presents data gathered in many regions of the world; * many of the authors are well-known and respected for their previous work in educational studies; and * the chapters are designed in such a way that the majority of the book is easily accessible to professionals such as classroom teachers who are interested primarily in findings, results, and outcomes rather than the methodology of the research.
Alaska's Urban and Rural Governments
Thomas A. Morehouse; Gerald A. McBeath; Linda Leask
University Press of America
1984
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The first comprehensive examination of Alaska's urban and rural governments since statehood in 1959. Also explores the question of whether the state will be able to sustain them in the future. Compares and contrasts the two systems with local governments elsewhere in the U.S.
Alaska's Urban and Rural Governments
Thomas A. Morehouse; Gerald A. McBeath; Linda Leask
University Press of America
1984
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The first comprehensive examination of Alaska's urban and rural governments since statehood in 1959. Also explores the question of whether the state will be able to sustain them in the future. Compares and contrasts the two systems with local governments elsewhere in the U.S.
Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy
Jonathan Wolff; Gerald A. Cohen
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
2013
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G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history of philosophy, focusing instead on equality, freedom, and justice. However, throughout his career he regularly lectured on a wide range of moral and political philosophers of the past. This volume collects these previously unpublished lectures. Starting with a chapter centered on Plato, but also discussing the pre-Socratics as well as Aristotle, the book moves to social contract theory as discussed by Hobbes, Locke, and Hume, and then continues with chapters on Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. The book also contains some previously published but uncollected papers on Marx, Hobbes, and Kant, among other figures. The collection concludes with a memoir of Cohen written by the volume editor, Jonathan Wolff, who was a student of Cohen's. A hallmark of the lectures is Cohen's engagement with the thinkers he discusses. Rather than simply trying to render their thought accessible to the modern reader, he tests whether their arguments and positions are clear, sound, and free from contradiction. Throughout, he homes in on central issues and provides fresh approaches to the philosophers he examines. Ultimately, these lectures teach us not only about some of the great thinkers in the history of moral and political philosophy, but also about one of the great thinkers of our time: Cohen himself.
Scaling Methods
Peter Dunn-Rankin; Gerald A. Knezek; Susan R. Wallace; Shuqiang Zhang
Psychology Press
2004
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Scaling Methods is written for professionals in the behavioral sciences who analyze data that results from subjective responses. Other books on scaling attitudes or measuring perceptions focus on the psychometrician's view of measurement. This book focuses on the users' view by concentrating on effective ways to analyze data rather than the mathematical details of how each program works. The methods included handle the majority of data analysis problems encountered and are accompanied by a software solution. Each chapter features the theory surrounding that methodology, an example, a real-world application, and a computer solution.This book introduces the major uni- and multi-dimensional scaling method techniques most common in educational, social, and psychological research. Using four primary methods of data collection--ordering, categorical rating, free clustering, and similarity judgments--Scaling Methods, Second Edition explains how such data can be represented in ways that illustrate relationships among the data and help reveal underlying dimensional structures. Each method serves as an independent unit so readers can pick and choose from a variety of easy-to-use procedures and more advanced techniques. The new edition features a new chapter on order analysis and downloadable resources that provide stand-alone, as well as SAS supported demonstrations of multi-dimensional scaling techniques, plus programs to get raw data into matrix form. The text is written for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in education and the social and behavioral sciences interested in analyzing data resulting from subjective responses, especially in the measurement of attitudes. Each chapter is self-contained making this an excellent resource for use in the classroom or as a self-study tool. A first course in statistics is a helpful prerequisite.
Viviendo Interculturalmente La Misión
Anthony J Gittins; Gerald a Arbuckle
Liturgical Press
2022
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Nuestro mundo globalizado re ne cada vez m s a personas de muchas culturas diferentes, aunque no siempre de forma armoniosa. En las ltimas d cadas, las empresas multinacionales han buscado estrategias m s eficaces para una aut ntica colaboraci n intercultural. Pero en el mundo multicultural de hoy, tambi n las comunidades religiosas --desde las parroquias locales hasta las comunidades religiosas internacionales-- se enfrentan al reto de la vida intercultural. Las ciencias sociales han desarrollado algunos enfoques constructivos, pero las personas de fe tambi n necesitan construir sus esfuerzos sobre una base b blica y teol gica s lida. Viviendo Interculturalmente la Misi n integra la sociolog a/antropolog a con la teolog a pr ctica, nos recuerda que la buena voluntad por s sola no es suficiente para lograr el cambio, y se ala una forma de vida intercultural sustentada en la fe, la virtud y una serie de habilidades nuevas y adecuadas.
Scaling Methods
Peter Dunn-Rankin; Gerald A. Knezek; Susan R. Wallace; Shuqiang Zhang
Psychology Press Ltd
2016
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Scaling Methods is written for professionals in the behavioral sciences who analyze data that results from subjective responses. Other books on scaling attitudes or measuring perceptions focus on the psychometrician's view of measurement. This book focuses on the users' view by concentrating on effective ways to analyze data rather than the mathematical details of how each program works. The methods included handle the majority of data analysis problems encountered and are accompanied by a software solution. Each chapter features the theory surrounding that methodology, an example, a real-world application, and a computer solution.This book introduces the major uni- and multi-dimensional scaling method techniques most common in educational, social, and psychological research. Using four primary methods of data collection--ordering, categorical rating, free clustering, and similarity judgments--Scaling Methods, Second Edition explains how such data can be represented in ways that illustrate relationships among the data and help reveal underlying dimensional structures. Each method serves as an independent unit so readers can pick and choose from a variety of easy-to-use procedures and more advanced techniques. The new edition features a new chapter on order analysis and downloadable resources that provide stand-alone, as well as SAS supported demonstrations of multi-dimensional scaling techniques, plus programs to get raw data into matrix form. The text is written for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in education and the social and behavioral sciences interested in analyzing data resulting from subjective responses, especially in the measurement of attitudes. Each chapter is self-contained making this an excellent resource for use in the classroom or as a self-study tool. A first course in statistics is a helpful prerequisite.
The Expulsion of the Déissi
Kuno Meyer; Gerald A. John Kelly
Createspace Independent Pub
2016
pokkari
Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island
Anne Frances Pulling; Gerald A Leeds
Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
1999
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An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa
Robert Pollin; Gerald A. Epstein; James Heintz; Léonce Ndikumana
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
2007
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The people of South Africa, and the African National Congress-led government, have made extraordinary social and economic advances since ending apartheid and beginning the transition to democracy in 1994. But the country still faces severe problems of mass unemployment, underemployment and poverty. This study, sponsored by the United Nations Development Program, presents a detailed economic program designed to produce major reductions in unemployment and poverty, and a general spreading of economic well-being, and to achieve these ends in a manner that is sustainable over a longer-term framework. The 'employment-targeted' program developed here builds from standard policy tools and initiatives already undertaken by the government in the areas of macroeconomic policy, development banking and large-scale credit subsidies, labor-intensive public investments, and social welfare expenditures. The authors introduce these measures alongside specific proposals in the areas of fiscal budgetary control, inflation control and exchange rate management. Students and scholars of development economics will find this analysis of South Africa's economy, and the authors' plan for stimulating job growth, of great interest.
Clean Energy: Hydrogen/fuel Cells Laboratory Manual (With Dvd-rom)
K S V Santhanam; Gerald A Takacs; Massoud J Miri; Alla V Bailey; Thomas D Allston; Roman J Press
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
2016
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This manual is designed for the use of hydrogen as a fuel in the fuel cells. The turn of the century has seen a realization of moving towards clean energy due to a variety of considerations ranging from global warming, anxiety to living in a healthy atmosphere, depletion of fossil fuels, oil slick in Gulf of Mexico resulting in disasters and so forth. Innumerable debates in the literature has led to the identification of hydrogen as the safest and efficient fuel over the other available fuels. This fuel can be used in two ways: a) direct combustion like gasoline and b) fuel cells. The use of it by the first method requires pure oxygen to be used for combustion; it is an expensive method involving oxygen storage and transportation. If oxygen is substituted by air in the combustion, it produces nitrogen oxides that are defying the definition of clean energy. The other method is to use it as a fuel cell for easy emission free transportation. Here chemical energy is converted to electrical energy directly in a fuel cell. To illustrate principles of related fuel cells, methanol and borohydride fuel cells are included in this manual. The nine experiments described here are designed for illustrating the concepts for the beginners and those motivated to go for clean energy.DVD displays the actual experimental set up and measurement procedures for Hydrogen safety; Fuel value measurement; Gaseous properties of hydrogen; Proton exchange membrane fuel cell assembly and Dissolved methanol fuel cell.
Assessment in Counseling
Richard S. Balkin; Gerald A. Juhnke
Oxford University Press Inc
2018
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Students often experience assessment courses, and subsequently the textbooks used for the course, as a statistics-heavy class accompanied by an encyclopedia of a variety of assessments. Assessment in Counseling alternatively emphasizes the skills used in assessment, thereby enabling students to apply these skills across a broad range of assessment instruments and strategies. Assessment, like most core areas of counseling, has a theoretical basis and a pertinent, practical component. However, this practical component often gets lost in the application of the skills and use of instruments that heavily rely on psychometric properties. Written in an accessible, conversational tone, this text focuses on the application of the theoretical and measurement concepts of assessment in counseling and introduces three case studies that are followed throughout the text. Additionally, instead of introducing readers to a plethora of instruments, the authors select seminal measures that students are likely to approach and use in the profession. Through the use of this text and course content, one will acquire the skills to search, select, and administer the type of assessment instruments that he/she deems helpful for their practice as a professional counselor, regardless of specialization. Ultimately, this textbook serves as an invaluable guide for administering, scoring, interpreting, and communicating assessment results.
Assessment in Counseling
Richard S. Balkin; Gerald A. Juhnke
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
2026
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Assessment in Counseling takes a different approach to assessment courses, which students often experience as a statistics-heavy class accompanied by a wide variety of assessments. Richard S. Balkin and Gerald A. Juhnke emphasize the skills used in assessment and supports the use of these skills across a broad range of assessment instruments and strategies. Assessment, like more core areas of counseling, has a theoretical basis and a pertinent, practical component. However, this practical component often gets lost in the application of the skills and use of instructions that heavily rely on psychometric properties. Written in an accessible, conversational tone, the book focuses on the application of the theoretical and measurement concepts of assessment in counseling and introduces three case studies that are followed throughout the text. Instead of introducing readers to a plethora of instruments, Balkin and Juhnke have selected seminal measures that students are likely to come across and use in the profession. Through the use of this book and their course content, students will gain the skills to search, select, and administer the type of assessment instruments deemed helpful for their practice as a professional counselor, regardless of specialization. This new edition provides updates on the laws, codes, and instruments covered, the most recent application of measures and the psychometric properties associated with them, and additions on career assessment and personality. It also features a new chapter on environmental assessment that highlights data collection practices and the role of assessing, accommodating, and recommending levels of care. Ultimately, this textbook serves as a guide for administering, scoring, interpreting, and communicating assessment results.
Our globalized world increasingly brings together people of many different cultures, though not always harmoniously. In recent decades, multinational companies have sought more efficient strategies for authentic intercultural collaboration. But in today's multicultural world-church, faith communities too—from local parishes to international religious communities—are faced with the challenge of intercultural living. The social sciences have developed some constructive approaches, but people of faith also need to build their endeavors on a sound biblical and theological foundation. Living Mission Interculturally integrates sociology/anthropology with practical theology, reminds us that good will alone is not enough to effect change, and points to a way of intercultural living underpinned by faith, virtue, and a range of new and appropriate skills.