• Provides step-by-step guidance for students who will be conducting their first surveys to collect factual information, measure attitudes, and evaluate products, services, and programs using questionnaires.• Each chapter is structured around easy-to-follow guidelines.• Numerous examples illustrate the guidelines. The examples are on timely topics of interest to students.• This short book is an ideal supplement for guiding students through a class project. At the en...

• This edition of our popular reader is entirely updated with timely articles that deal with broad issues in education and psychology. (For a research reader with emphasis on classroom issues, see A Cross Section of Educational Research.)• This collection shows students the many inherent weaknesses of empirical methods as well as models of excellence. Unlike research readers that contain made-up articles, this one has both face validity and content validity. Your students will appr...

� Provides remediation for students who are rusty in their basic computational skills.� Helps break the cycle of failure leading to loss of self-confidence, which leads to more failure.� Students study six clusters of computational skills necessary for success in statistics.� With computational skills mastered, students can concentrate on more important course objectives.� Humorous cartoons interspersed throughout the book help alleviate statistics anxiety.

Taking into account both traditional and emerging modes, this comprehensive new Handbook covers all major methodological and statistical issues in designing and analyzing surveys. With contributions from the world's leading survey methodologists and statisticians, this invaluable new resource provides guidance on collecting survey data and creating meaningful results. Featuring examples from a variety of countries, the book reviews such things as how to deal with sample designs, w...

"Here is a 'must-read' for all health promotion researchers and practitioners eager to stay one step ahead of the pack. A panoply of insightful and promising new approaches is presented for consideration and exploration in our contemporary behavioral science arsenal."— M. Elaine Auld, MPH, CHES, Chief Executive Officer, Society for Public Health Education"This book is an essential addition to the health practice and research literature, concentrating on theories that have no...

"Traditionally, assessment and evaluation have focused on the negative aspects or deficits of a client?s presentation. Yet strengths, health, and those things that are going ?right? in a person?s life are key protective factors in the prevention and treatment of many mental health problems. Thus, measuring strengths is an important component of a balanced assessment and evaluation process. This is the first compendium of more than 150 valid and reliable strengths-based assessment t...

No matter how simple it may be, solving mathematical equations can be a challenge for quite a number of persons. Through his book titled “Secret Of Mental Math Arithmetic: 70 Secrets To Super Speed Calculation & Amazing Math Tricks”, Jason Scotts seeks to provide the solution to those mathematical problems. The main challenge has come from the fact that most persons have become used to grabbing a calculator to solve a mathematical problem. As such, the mind has become a bit lazy and it tak...

Although most people believe that there is little we can do to improve the intelligence we were born with, the brain can be exercised just like any other part of the body. Thought processes and intelligence scoring can be improved by practising different types of testing.This title from IQ expert Philip Carter is a companion volume to the bestselilng IQ and Psychometric Tests, and it includes not only hundreds of practice questions, but also answers but explanations. The b...

All the tips and tools you need to build a successful mental health practice from the ground upMany mental health professionals currently working for group practices, hospitals, and private or government agencies have both the skills and the drive to become solo practitioners. But how and where do you begin?Getting Started in Private Practice is a reliable reference that offers the comprehensive information and armchair motivation you need to establish and build your own pr...

Using Environments to Enable Occupational Performance is a unique new text that specifically focuses on how environments (physical, social, cultural, institutional) can be used by occupational therapists to enable occupational performance with all types of clients. This informative text provides a framework to think about how environments fit into occupational therapy theory and practice. Examples of different approaches to occupational therapy intervention involving environments are demon...

A student in a remedial class who couldn't count by twos is now in an academic program a year ahead of her grade level. An entire Grade 3 class, including so-called slow learners, scores over 90% on a Grade 6-7 math test. These are just two of mathematician John Mighton's many success stories since he started JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies), a not-for-profit organization providing free math tutoring for elementary-level students from low income homes. In The Myth of Ability John ...

A state-of-the-art guide for developing grants witha strong emphasis on using program outcome measurement to underscore need and accountabilityBased on the authors' many years of experience in the public and nonprofit sectors, Effective Grant Writing and Program Evaluation for Human Service Professionals integrates the topics of grant proposal writing and program evaluation, offering grant seekers the practical guidance they need to develop quality proposa...