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Human Resource Management in Virtual Organizations (PB) (Research in Human Resource Management)
Information Age Publishing, 2002
CONTENTS: PART I: INTRODUCTION. Robert L. Heneman, The Ohio State University. PART II: STRATEGY. Defining Virtual Organizations and Implications for Human Resource Management. David B. Greenberger and Monica Wang, Ohio State University. HR Strategy in Virtual Organizations. Marc Wallace and Fred Crandall, Center for Workforce Effectiveness. ...
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Fertilizers, Pills, And Magnetic Strips: The Fate Of Public Education In America (PB)
Gene V Glass
IAP - Information Age Publishing, 2008
You'll Learn Things You Didn't Know About Schooling
The analyses and projections Glass presents are spot on in my view. That the US will become older and browner is evident from US Census data. But Occam's razor could well be applied to "fertilizers, pills, and magnetic strips." These are metonyms for technologies that ...
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Structural Equation Modeling: A Second Course (Quantitative Methods in Education and the Behavioral Sciences)
IAP - Information Age Publishing Inc., 2006
Outstanding intermediate level SEM text
This book fills an important niche, a sweet spot in between basic SEM texts such as Rex Kline's helpful beginner's book and more complex, advanced treatments of SEM such as Ken Bollen's classic 1989 Wiley text. Methodologists might argue that the latter text is ...
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The Evolution of American Educational Technology
Paul Saettler
Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2004
Great Service
My books arrived earlier than predicted. I will continue to shop with Amazon as long as they continue to provide this kind of service.
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Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Adolescents (PB) (Adolescence and Education)
Information Age Publishing, 2006
A must read for everyone working with youth
This is an outstanding volume (I would have given it a six or seven if I could have) that focuses on self-efficacy beliefs during adolescence, a time when these self-beliefs are critically important. Chapter authors consist of a who's who in self-efficacy theory. These ...
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An Administrator's Guide to Online Education (PB) (USDLA Book Series on Distance Learning) (Usdla Book Series ...
Kaye Shelton, George Saltsman
IAP - Information Age Publishing, 2005
Advice from an expert
Kaye Shelton has "been there and done that" and she is not hesitant to tell about it. This book has many helpful suggestions, amplified by appropriate examples. It is well organized--just what an online director needs when faced with establishing a new program.
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The Testing Gap: Scientific Trials of Test Driven School Accountability Systems for Execellence and Equity ...
Jaekyung Lee
Information Age Publishing, 2007
A volume in the series: Research in Educational Policy: Local, National, and Global Perspectives. Series Editor(s): Kenneth K. Wong, Vanderbilt University The objective of this book is to advance our understanding of the design, implementation and evaluation of test-driven external accountability policies for improving both academic excellence ...
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Advances in Latent Variable Mixture Models (PB) (Cilvr Series on Latent Variable Methodology)
Information Age Publishing, 2007
The current volume, Advances in Latent Variable Mixture Models, contains chapters by all of the speakers who participated in the 2006 CILVR conference, providing not just a snapshot of the event, but more importantly chronicling the state of the art in latent variable mixture model research. The volume starts with an overview chapter by the CILVR ...
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Reforming Middle Level Education: Considerations for Policymakers (Handbook of Research in Middle Level ...
Information Age Publishing, 2004
This volume of The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education is a significant contribution to the literature on middle level schools because it is written specifically with policymakers in mind. Middle level scholars have illuminated the most important issues concerning the education of young adolescents of which policymakers must be ...
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Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data (PB) (Quantitative Methods in Education and the Behavioral Science)
Information Age Publishing, 2008
A volume in Quantitative Methods in Education and the Behavioral Sciences: Issues, Research, and Teaching Series Editor Ron Serlin, University of Wisconsin (sponsored by the Educational Statisticians, SIG) Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data, co-edited by Ann A. O'Connell, Ed.D., and D. Betsy McCoach, Ph.D., is the next volume in the ...
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Asian American Education: Acculturation, Literacy Development, and Learning (PB) (Research on the Education ...
Information Age Publishing, 2007
This research anthology is the fourth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIGREAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and explains the lived experiences of Asian ...
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Teaching Writing Genres Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Middle School Teachers (Contemporary Language ...
Susan Lee Pasquarelli (Editor)
IAP - Information Age Publishing Inc., 2006
A volume in Contemporary Language Education Series Editor Terry A. Osborn, University of Connecticut This volume showcases the efforts of real teachers using the teaching events from real middle school classrooms. Included is the work of eight hard-working middle school teachers who are convinced that the form and function of genre is a ...
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Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, Volume 2 (PB)
Information Age Publishing, 2008
The aim of this set of books is to combine the best of current academic research into the use of Communities of Practice in education with "hands on" practitioner experience in order to provide teachers and academics with a convenient source of guidance and an incentive to work with and develop in their own Communities of Practice. This set of ...
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Independent Movement and Travel in Blind Children: A Promotion Model (PB) (Critical Concerns in Blindness) ...
Joseph Cutter
Information Age Publishing, 2007
Very Helpful Book
As a parent of a blind 7 year-old, I will use this book to help me to encourage my daughter to become an independent and confident traveler. I can help her learn the skills of blindness. This book would also be extremely helpful for a parent with a baby or toddler who ...
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Parallel Paths to Constructivism: Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky
Susan Pass
Information Age Publishing, 2004
No pass for Pass
How anyone can read Vygotsky's work and conclude that he was a constructivist is beyond me. Pass doesn't get a pass twisting Vygotsky for her own purposes. Forget her. Read Vygotsky and Piaget for yourself.
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