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Improving Learning eBook Series

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  • Improving Subject Teaching

    Lessons from Research in Science Education

    Series series Improving Learning
    In many countries, questions are being raised about the quality and value of educational research. This book explores the relationship between research and practice in education. It looks at the extent to which current practice could be said to be informed by knowledge or ideas generated by research and at the extent to which the use of current practices or the adoption of new ones are, or could ... Read more

    RM 191.19

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  • Lies, Damned Lies, and Science

    How to Sort through the Noise Around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies

    “Comprehensive, readable, and replete with current, useful examples, this book provides a much-needed explanation of how to be a critical consumer of the scientific claims we encounter in our everyday lives.”—April Cordero Maskiewicz, Department of Biology, Point Loma Nazarene University“Seethaler’s book helps the reader look inside the workings of science and gain a deeper understanding of the ... Read more

    RM 84.29

  • First Time in the College Classroom

    A Guide for Teaching Assistants, Instructors, and New Professors at All Colleges and Universities

    People who teach in higher education are subject matter specialists, but they often have little preparation in how to teach. This book presents the knowledge base of college teaching in a user-friendly, easy-to-read, yet well-researched format. From sample syllabi to the creation of an effective grading scale, this book covers critically important aspects of organizing and teaching your curriculum ... Read more

    RM 159.59

  • Help Your Kids with Science

    A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide, Revision and Reference

    Series series DK Help Your Kids With
    If you're left blinded by science, this ultimate home-study companion makes everything clear.This unique visual reference guide adopts a simple step-by-step approach to give you a complete understanding of this diverse and difficult subject. Bubbling over with pictures, diagrams, and information, this book covers biology, chemistry, and physics in comprehensive depth and detail. Help Your Kids ... Read more

    RM 64.79

  • Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

    The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century.Beginning with reflections on the historical and theoretical foundations of the sociology of medical education, ... Read more

    RM 269.24

  • Elementary Science Teacher Education

    International Perspectives on Contemporary Issues and Practice

    Edited by Ken Appleton ...
    Co-Published with the Association For Science Teacher Education.Reflecting recent policy and standards initiatives, emerging research agendas, and key innovations, this volume provides a contemporary overview of important developments and issues that have that have in recent years shaped elementary science education pre-service courses and professional development, and practices that are shaping ... Read more

    RM 316.07

  • Preparing Mathematics and Science Teachers for Diverse Classrooms

    Promising Strategies for Transformative Pedagogy

    This book provides a theoretical basis and practical strategies to counter resistance to learning to teach for diversity (in culturally and gender-inclusive ways), and resistance to teaching for understanding (using student-centered and inquiry-based pedagogical approaches). Teacher educators from across the United States present rich narratives of their experiences in helping prospective and ... Read more

    RM 316.07

  • Towards a Convergence Between Science and Environmental Education

    The selected works of Justin Dillon

    by Justin Dillon ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    In the World Library of Educationalists, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions—so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers thus are able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their ... Read more

    RM 245.82

  • Free to Be Musical

    Group Improvisation in Music

    Free to Be Musical: Group Improvisation in Music is for those who lead musical experiences in the lives of children, youth, and adults. Offering a set of experiences to inspire creative musical expression, this book will prove useful for music education majors, practicing music teachers, community musicians, and music therapists alike. The experiences (or "events") are designed to reduce the ... Read more

    RM 170.19

  • The 5Es of Inquiry-Based Science

    Series series Professional Resources
    Create an active learning environment in grades K-12 using the 5E inquiry-based science model! Featuring a practical guide to implementing the 5E model of instruction, this resource clearly explains each "E" in the 5E model of inquiry-based science. It provides teachers with practical strategies for stimulating inquiry with students and includes lesson ideas. Suggestions are provided for ... Read more

    RM 73.69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animal Senses

    Series series Science Readers: Content and Literacy
    Animals have senses just like we do, but their senses work much differently than ours. Birds eyes don’t move at all and some insects use their feet to smell things! Find out about the unique ways in which animals use their senses in this fact-filled e-book! High-interest text paired with colorful images and graphics fill the pages of this e-book to engage students from cover to cover. Encourage ... Read more

    RM 33.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Student Thinking and Learning in Science

    Perspectives on the Nature and Development of Learners' Ideas

    Series series Teaching and Learning in Science Series
    This readable and informative survey of key ideas about students’ thinking in science builds a bridge between theory and practice by offering clear accounts from research, and showing how they relate to actual examples of students talking about widely taught science topics.Focused on secondary students and drawing on perspectives found in the international research literature, the goal is not to ... Read more

    RM 284.85