The specific—and varied—ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern, particularly as educators are increasingly called on to implement these processes for improvement, accountability, or curricular development purposes. Useful Assessment and Evaluation in Language Education showcases contemporary research that explores innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational c...

Working memory--the ability to keep important information in mind while comprehending, thinking, and acting--varies considerably from person to person and changes dramatically during each person's life. Understanding such individual and developmental differences is crucial because working memory is a major contributor to general intellectual functioning. This volume offers a state-of-the-art, integrative, and comprehensive approach to understanding variation in working memory by presenting...

Handbook of Big Data provides a state-of-the-art overview of the analysis of large-scale datasets. Featuring contributions from well-known experts in statistics and computer science, this handbook presents a carefully curated collection of techniques from both industry and academia. Thus, the text instills a working understanding of key statistical

Launch a profitable home-based business today and get started on your journey to financial freedom with this guide to setting up a successful virtual bookkeeping businessAre you tired of being stressed out by your soul-draining 9 to 5 job and are looking for the perfect remote side hustle to help you earn a serious income from the comfort of your home while giving you time to do the thing you really want to, like spending time with your family or pursuing your true...

Learn How to Get Over Bookkeeping and Accounting with the Ultimate Guide to Mastering the QuickBooks SoftwareCrunching the numbers... Doing the books...Love them or hate them, they're essential to any business if you want to avoid problems with the law and want to know how money moves in your business setup.Many people aren't fond of doing bookkeeping and accounting, with good reason. It's boring as hell for those who aren't inclined toward math.

Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory seeks to place the contemporary transformation of notions of space and time, often attributed to the technologies we use, in the context of the ongoing transformations of modernity. Bringing together examples of modern and contemporary fiction (from Defoe to DeLillo, Frankenstein to Finnegans Wake) and theoretical discussions of the modern and the post-modern, the author explores the legacy of modern transformations...

A Computational Approach to Statistical Learning gives a novel introduction to predictive modeling by focusing on the algorithmic and numeric motivations behind popular statistical methods. The text contains annotated code to over 80 original reference functions. These functions provide minimal working implementations of common statistical learning algorithms. Every chapter concludes with a fully worked out application that illustrates predictive modeling tasks using a real-world ...

In this second instalment of the Cats of Katlyn series, Detective Lisa Crom has returned to Antrim County to solve a nagging problem with the closed case of Barry Newman Perkins when suddenly she, her tabby cat, Little One, seven-year-old Megan Simms, and their two animal friends are spirited away to the world of Katlyn. Lisa, who can also hear animals communicating in her mind, must find a way to get Megan home to her parents, and soon they are greeted by mystical creatures like the Green...

Launch a profitable home-based business today and get started on your journey to financial freedom with this guide to setting up a successful virtual bookkeeping businessAre you tired of being stressed out by your soul-draining 9 to 5 job and are looking for the perfect remote side hustle to help you earn a serious income from the comfort of your home while giving you time to do the thing you really want to, like spending time with your family or pursuing your true...

Learn How to Get Over Bookkeeping and Accounting with the Ultimate Guide to Mastering the QuickBooks SoftwareCrunching the numbers... Doing the books...Love them or hate them, they're essential to any business if you want to avoid problems with the law and want to know how money moves in your business setup. Many people aren't fond of doing bookkeeping and accounting, with good reason. It's boring as hell for those who aren't inclined toward math.

Demystify the science and practice of accounting and take the headache out of bookkeeping with this 2-in-1 resource guide to accounting and QuickBooks for small businessesDo you run a small business and want to understand how cash flows in your business works, but don't have the stomach for painstakingly crunching numbers or accounting jargon? Do finances put you in a state of torpor and are completely clueless about balance sheets, income statement and the likes...

Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the twenty-first century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a design science. Like other design professionals – architects, engineers, programmers – teachers have to work out creative and evidence-based ways of improving what they do. Yet teaching is not treated as a design profession.Every d...