Experimental Methods category: 522 books
by Richard Eyre, Linda Eyre
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
One of the greatest gifts you can give your children is a strong sense of personal values. Helping your children develop values such as honesty, self-reliance, and dependability is as important a part of their education as
teaching them to read or how to cross the street safely. The values you teach...
by Betsy Schooley
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
In 2004, after thirty-four years of teaching, Betsy Schooley retired from the classroom—but her own education didn’t end there. In the years that followed, she became fascinated with the study of brain plasticity—a pursuit partly inspired by her own diagnosis with ADHD—and an entirely new...
Computer Games for Learning
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of what research shows about the educational value of computer games for learning.
Many strong claims are made for the educational value of computer games, but there is a need for systematic examination of the research evidence that might support...
by Jewels Maloney
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Every Child is Holy shows how easy and fun it can be to relax and enjoy the wonder of life through parenting, how much it matters that we give children environments and experiences filled with beauty and creativity; and how essential it is for children to have an intimate relationship with nature....
by Nathan Lawton
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Unlimited Memory
How to Train Your Brain to Learn Faster and Remember More
Your brain is an expansive organ. You cannot unravel its true capacity until you put it under some rigorous exercises. This book aims at showing you how you can improve your techniques to remember almost anything. From...
Action Research
An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Action Research: An Educational Leader’s Guide to School Improvement, Third Edition, is a clear and practical guide to conducting action research in schools. Although it offers neither a cookbook nor a quick-fix approach, this book does outline the process of designing and reporting an action research...
by US Department of Agriculture, Gumption Corp.
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Current “wood first” thinking influences ecologically minded individuals and governments all over the world. It encourages the building of homes using sustainably managed renewable resources. It also reflects a desire to offer a creative quality alternative to the modern McMansions and little...
Cases on Globalized and Culturally Appropriate E-Learning
Challenges and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
E-learning is a cultural artifact and thus, is embedded with the cultural preferences, learning styles, and values of the designing culture, usually western. Yet, the largest and fastest growing groups of learners are in eastern cultures. Cultural differences should not create barriers to learning, understanding,...
by Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance aims to address the contentious practice of assessment in schools and universities within a poststructuralist educational paradigm. Within the theoretical paradigm of Foucault’s (1994) notions of governmentality, subjectification and dissonance,...
by Leigh A. Bortins
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
In the past, correct spelling, the multiplication tables, the names of the state capitals and the American presidents were basics that all children were taught in school. Today, many children graduate without this essential knowledge. Most curricula today follow a haphazard sampling of topics with...
by Sara de Freitas
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book examines the implications of computer-generated learning for curriculum design, epistemology, and pedagogy, exploring the ways these technologies transform the relationship between knowledge and learning, and between teachers and students. It argues that these technologies and practices...
Action Research Communities
Professional Learning, Empowerment, and Improvement Through Collaborative Action Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Action Research Communities presents a new perspective on two current and proven educational practices: classroom-/school-based action research and professional learning communities. Implementation of one or the other of these practices often results in a variety of possible benefits for the teaching–learning...
Crafting Critical Stories
Toward Pedagogies and Methodologies of Collaboration, Inclusion, and Voice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Critical storytelling, a rich form of culturally relevant, critical pedagogy, has gained great urgency in a world of standardization. Crafting Critical Stories asks how social justice scholars and educators narrate, craft, and explore critical stories as a tool for culturally relevant, critical pedagogy....
de-testing and de-grading schools
Authentic Alternatives to Accountability and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A century of education and education reform, along with more than three decades of high-stakes testing and accountability, reveals a disturbing paradox: education has a steadfast commitment to testing and grading. This commitment persists despite ample research, theory, and philosophy revealing the...