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Dogs in Schools Pedagogy and Practice for Happy Healthy and Humane Interventions

Dogs in Schools Pedagogy and Practice for Happy Healthy and Humane Interventions

Using a wealth of infographics and classroom examples Dogs in Schools sets out the pedagogical principles that schools can employ to work with school dogs in a way that promotes the well-being of all participants and creates a safe environment for all. This is the first book to combine theory and research with the views of experienced teachers and professionals working around the world from the United Kingdom to India from Australia to mainland Europe. Their perspectives illustrate the wide-ranging interest in school dogs but also highlight common concerns. For policymakers this is a book not to ignore because it shows how dogs have the potential to make a significant contribution to children's well-being at a time of growing concern in this area. Simultaneously the authors endorse the views of contributors who call for the introduction of humane regulations and fulsome guidance so that school dogs are viewed as sentient companions and not relegated to the latest educational fad. This is a must-read book for all those who are serious about humane education and ensuring the well-being and happiness of both children and dogs. | Dogs in Schools Pedagogy and Practice for Happy Healthy and Humane Interventions

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Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

This new edition of Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality critically examines the deep and enduring problems within systems of education in the U. S. in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students teachers and communities negatively affected by such testing. Updates to the new edition include new chapters that focus on: the role of schools and standardized testing in reproducing social cultural and economic inequalities; the way high-stakes testing is used to advance neoliberal market-based educational schemes that ultimately concentrate wealth and power among elites; how standardized testing became the dominant tool within our educational systems; the numerous technical and ideological problems with using standardized tests to evaluate students teachers and schools; the role that high-stakes testing plays in the maintenance of white supremacy; and how school communities have resisted high-stakes testing and used better assessments of student learning. Parents teachers university students and scholars will find Unequal By Design useful for gaining a broad critical understanding of the issues surrounding our over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing in the U. S. through up-to-date research on testing historical and contemporary examples of the struggles over such tests and information about how testing has fostered the privatization of public education in the U. S. | Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

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Assessment and Testing An Introduction

Assessment and Testing An Introduction

Originally published in 1972 there were many ‘classics’ dealing with assessment and testing on the market at the time but most of these left the inexperienced reader bewildered in the early stages because of their size and insufficient explanation of the many technical terms used. There were a distinct lack of books which gave students in Colleges of Education dealing with psychology for the first time a simple explanation of basic terms in assessment and testing and which introduced them briefly to the different types of tests available. Assessment and Testing aimed to fill this large gap. It looks at such key psychological terms as ‘sample’ ‘objectivity’ ‘subjectivity’ and such basic statistical terms such as ‘mean’ ‘standard deviation’ and ‘normal curve of distribution’. Because it assumes that the reader has no knowledge of such terms it gives careful and simply illustrated explanations of each. In the same way in simple language with any technical terms explained and illustrated it explains intelligence and personality tests questionnaires sociometric measures projection techniques and other areas of assessment and testing which every practising teacher will meet. The book aims to be essentially practical. It is appreciated all the time that the readers are those who will teach children. It is designed to provide a solid foundation upon which the reader can build later to augment his own experience of identifying children’s particular needs. | Assessment and Testing An Introduction

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IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

This popular guide clarifies the requirements for inspection and testing explaining in clear language those parts of the IET Wiring Regulations that most need simplifying. In addition to the descriptive and diagrammatic test methods that are required explanations of the theory and reasoning behind test procedures are given together with useful tables for the comparison of test results. The book also provides essential information on the completion of electrical installation certificates with a step-by-step guide on the entries that need to be made and where to source data. With the content suitable for both City & Guilds and EAL Inspection and Testing courses and containing a sample MCQ paper and answers it is also an ideal revision guide. Fully up to date with the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. Simplifies the advice found in the Wiring Regulations explaining how they apply to working practice for inspection testing and certification. Expert advice from an engineering training consultant supported with colour diagrams examples and key data. | IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

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Dogs in the North Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication

Dogs in the North Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication

Dogs in the North offers an interdisciplinary in-depth consideration of the multiple roles that dogs have played in the North. Spanning the deep history of humans and dogs in the North the volume examines a variety of contexts in North America and Eurasia. The case studies build on archaeological ethnohistorical ethnographic and anthropological research to illuminate the diversity and similarities in canine–human relationships across this vast region. The book sheds additional light on how dogs figure in the story of domestication and how they have participated in partnerships with people across time. With contributions from a wide selection of authors Dogs in the North is aimed at students and scholars of anthropology archaeology and history as well as all those with interests in human–animal studies and northern societies. | Dogs in the North Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication

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Police and Military Dogs Criminal Detection Forensic Evidence and Judicial Admissibility

Police and Military Dogs Criminal Detection Forensic Evidence and Judicial Admissibility

It is essential that those in the criminal justice system understand the tasks that police dogs perform and the evidence that their work produces. Police and Military Dogs: Criminal Detection Forensic Evidence and Judicial Admissibility examines the use of police and military dogs for a wide variety of functions and explores canine biology and behavior as it applies to police work. The book begins with an overview of the changes that have occurred in the field in the past four decades as discoveries have been made about canine capabilities. The author examines how a canine handler’s work with a skilled police dog can affect the subsequent investigation and prosecution of the crime. He discusses optimal procedures for finding and processing evidence and describes the boundaries of admissibility of evidence produced by police dogs. The book examines the many diverse detection functions police dogs are being trained to perform ranging from cadaver detection to the discovery of explosives. It also describes the use of dogs to apprehend criminals and in search and rescue operations. Written for a wide audience including canine handlers forensic scientists attorneys and the judiciary this volume covers topics pertinent to all aspects of the police dog in contemporary law enforcement. | Police and Military Dogs Criminal Detection Forensic Evidence and Judicial Admissibility

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Treating Chronically Traumatized Children The Sleeping Dogs Method

Treating Chronically Traumatized Children The Sleeping Dogs Method

When children refuse or seem unable to talk about their traumatic memories it might be tempting to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’. However if left untreated the memories of childhood abuse and neglect can have a devastating effect on the development of children and young people. How can these children be motivated and engage in trauma-focused therapy? Treating Chronically Traumatized Children: The Sleeping Dogs Method describes a structured method to overcome resistance and enable children to wake these sleeping dogs safely so these children heal from their trauma. The ‘Sleeping Dogs method’ is a comprehensive approach to treating chronically traumatized children first preparing the child to such an extent that he or she can engage in therapy to process traumatic memories then by the trauma processing and integration phase. Collaboration with the child’s network the child’s biological family including the abuser-parent and child protection services are key elements of the 'Sleeping Dogs method'. The underlying theory about the consequences of traumatization such as disturbed attachment and dissociation is described in a comprehensive easy-to-read manner illustrated with case studies and is accompanied by downloadable worksheets. This new edition has been updated to include the clinical experience in working with this method and the most recent literature and research as well as entirely new chapters that apply the ‘Sleeping Dogs method’ to the experiences of children in foster care and residential care and those with an intellectual disability. Treating Chronically Traumatized Children will have a wide appeal including psychologists psychiatrists psychotherapists counsellors family therapists social workers child protection frontline foster care and youth workers inpatient and residential staff and (foster or adoptive) parents. | Treating Chronically Traumatized Children The Sleeping Dogs Method

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Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

Covers all your testing and inspection needs to help you pass your exams on City & Guilds 2391 and EAL 600/4338/6 and 600/4340/4 and Part P courses. Entirely up to date with the 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations Step-by-step descriptions and photographs of the tests show exactly how to carry them out Completion of inspection and test certification and periodic reporting Fault finding techniques Testing 3 phase and single phase motors Supporting video footage of the tests contained in this book are available on the companion website This book covers everything you need to learn about inspection and testing with clear reference to the latest updates to the legal requirements and wiring regulations. It answers all of your questions on the basics of inspection and testing using clear and easy to remember language along with sample questions and scenarios as they will be encountered in the exams. Christopher Kitcher tells you what tests are needed and describes them in a step-by-step manner with the help of colour photographs and the accompanying website. All of the theory required for passing the inspecting and testing element of all electrical installation qualifications along with the AM2 City & Guilds 2391 certificate and the EAL 600/4338/6 and 600/4340/4 qualifications is contained within this easy-to-follow guide – along with some top tips to help you pass the exam itself. With a strong focus on the practical element of inspection and testing for NVQs or apprenticeships this is also an ideal reference tool for experienced electricians and those working in allied industries on domestic and industrial installations. www. routledge. com/cw/kitcher provides a large bank of helpful video demonstrations multiple choice questions to test your learning and further supporting materials. | Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

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Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

Testing Fresh Expressions investigates whether fresh expressions of church really do what is claimed for them by the fresh expressions movement and in particular whether their unique approach helps to reverse trends of decline experienced by traditional churches. Part 1 examines those claims and untangles their sociological and theological assumptions. From a careful study of factors underlying attendance decline and growth Part 2 argues that long-term decline can be resisted only if churches are better able to attract children the non-churched or both. Part 3 tests the comparative ability of a group of growing parish churches and a group of fresh expressions to resist trends of decline and discovers some intriguing social dynamics common to both groups. Part 4 argues that fresh expressions do not fulfil the unique role often claimed for them but that they do have the capacity to help reinvigorate the whole church. | Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

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Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

This book offers a comprehensive critique of how the assessment industry and standardized testing adversely impact students teachers and society. The authors present the case that the interconnected developments of the testing industry and the Assessment Industrial Complex (AIC) have effectively anchored American schooling to testing. Using an antiracist lens the authors deconstruct the AIC exposing the neoliberal agenda of education reformers and how proponents utilize the rhetoric of testing and the data extracted from them to normalize the reliance on AIC systems. This critique further exposes education reformers’ ideological agenda their hypocrisy and how they grossly profit from the AIC at the expense of society’s marginalized and most vulnerable students. The COVID-19 pandemic society’s racial unrest and anti-testing movements have aligned to underscore the need to examine systemic oppression and the impact it has on society through our education system. This text exposes how standardized testing perpetuates these injustices and provides the opportunity to disrupt the systems they rely upon and bolster the societal resistance that is needed. | Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

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Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing Rethinking Validity in Theory and Practice

Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing Rethinking Validity in Theory and Practice

This innovative timely text introduces the theory and research of critical approaches to language assessment foregrounding ethical and socially contextualized concerns in language testing and language test validation in today’s globalized world. The editors bring together diverse perspectives qualitative and quantitative methodologies and empirical work on this subject that speak to concerns about social justice and equity in language education from languages and contexts around the world – offering an overview of key concepts and theoretical issues and field-advancing suggestions for research projects. This book offers a fresh perspective on language testing that will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers of applied linguistics sociolinguistics language policy education and related fields – as well as language program administrators. | Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing Rethinking Validity in Theory and Practice

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Language Aptitude Advancing Theory Testing Research and Practice

Language Aptitude Advancing Theory Testing Research and Practice

Language Aptitude: Advancing Theory Testing Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge global perspectives on foreign language aptitude. Drawing from educational psychology cognitive science and neuroscience the editors have assembled interdisciplinary authors writing for an applied linguistics and education audience. The book is broken into five major themes: revisiting and updating current language aptitude theories and models; emerging insights from contemporary research into language aptitude and the age factor or the critical period hypothesis; redefining constructs and broadening territories of foreign language aptitude; exploring language aptitude from a neurocognitive perspective; and exploring future directions of foreign language aptitude research. Focused on critical issues in foreign language aptitude and second language learning and teaching this book will be an important research resource and supplemental reading in both applied linguistics and cognitive psychology. | Language Aptitude Advancing Theory Testing Research and Practice

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Electrical Inspection Testing and Certification A Guide to Passing the City and Guilds 2391 Exams

Electrical Inspection Testing and Certification A Guide to Passing the City and Guilds 2391 Exams

Updated in line with the 18th edition of the wiring regulations. This book is an essential guide to the City & Guilds 2391-50 and 51: Initial Verification and Certification of Electrical Installation and Periodic Inspection and Testing also C&G 2391-52: an amalgamation of Initial Verification and Periodic Inspection and Testing of electrical installations. There is a full coverage of technical and legal terminology used in the theory exams; including the structure of exam questions and their interpretation. By running through examples of realistic exam questions in a step-by-step fashion this book explains how to decode the questions to achieve the most suitable response from the multiple-choice answers given. This book is ideal for all electricians regardless of their experience who need a testing qualification in order to take the next step in their career. | Electrical Inspection Testing and Certification A Guide to Passing the City and Guilds 2391 Exams

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College Admissions and Admissions Testing in a Time of Transformational Change

College Admissions and Admissions Testing in a Time of Transformational Change

Perhaps no topic in higher education is more controversial than admissions whether it be to a prestigious college graduate schools or professional schools. In response to the pandemic and a host of race relations issues in the country many colleges and universities have changed their policies regarding admissions testing. In this foundational volume renowned chapter authors address a diverse set of themes related to college admissions examining new perspectives exploring the strengths and weaknesses of current practices and discussing how institutions might use different techniques to attract diverse students particularly those who have not traditionally attended college. Experts in college admission testing admissions research and psychology come together to provide empirically based approaches and ideas. Ultimately this volume advances a future in college admissions where more students are able to succeed in college and beyond. | College Admissions and Admissions Testing in a Time of Transformational Change

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Recovery and Stress in Sport A Manual for Testing and Assessment

Recovery and Stress in Sport A Manual for Testing and Assessment

Balancing training stress and recovery is essential for achieving optimal performance. The performance of professional athletes can be severely compromised by overtraining injuries prolonged periods of competition or even life events outside their sporting lives. The current recovery-stress state depends on preceding stress and recovery activities but through simultaneous assessment of stress and recovery a differentiated picture can be provided. This manual includes two measurement instruments to gauge individual recovery enabling both athletes and coaches to better understand the often-unconscious processes that impinge upon peak performance and to monitor the physical mental emotional mental and overall recovery-stress state before and after training. The Acute Recovery and Stress Scale (ARSS) and the Short Recovery and Stress Scale (SRSS) are instruments that systematically enlighten the recovery-stress states of athletes. Through utilization of the ARSS and the SRSS athletes and coaches can better understand the importance of daily activities including how they can relate to stress/recovery and the direct impact on athletic performance. In addition to the instruments themselves both of which are simple and easy to use the manual also discusses their development their basis in theory and case studies showcasing their usage. The ARSS and the SRSS provide important information regarding the current recovery-stress state during the process of training and are essential tools for coaches sport scientists sport psychologists and athletes alike. | Recovery and Stress in Sport A Manual for Testing and Assessment

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Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality Testing Religious Truth-claims

Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality Testing Religious Truth-claims

Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in a fresh way that we cannot know reality on the basis of naturalism. Moreover the fact-value split has failed to serve our interests of wanting to know reality. The author provocatively argues that since we can know reality it must be due to a non-naturalistic ontology best explained by the fact that human knowers are made and designed by God. The book offers fresh implications for the testing of religious truth-claims science ethics education and public policy. Consequently naturalism and the fact-value split are shown to be false and Christian theism is shown to be true. | Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality Testing Religious Truth-claims

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Therapeutic Assessment with Adults Using Psychological Testing to Help Clients Change

Therapeutic Assessment with Adults Using Psychological Testing to Help Clients Change

This book is a comprehensive guide to Therapeutic Assessment (TA) with adults showing how to collaboratively engage clients in psychological testing to help them achieve major and long-lasting change. This guide clearly lays out each step of TA with adults including its rationale and detailed instructions on how to handle a range of clinical situations. Additionally in part one the authors fully describe the development of TA its theoretical bases and the most up-to-date research on the model. In the second part of the book the authors describe the structure and techniques of TA and illustrate each step with transcripts from a clinical case. Further clinical illustrations help the reader understand how to conduct a TA with different types of clients including those from culturally diverse backgrounds. This book is essential for all clinicians therapists and trainees working with adult clients; along with students in assessment courses. | Therapeutic Assessment with Adults Using Psychological Testing to Help Clients Change

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Teaching and Testing L2 Interactional Competence Bridging Theory and Practice

Teaching and Testing L2 Interactional Competence Bridging Theory and Practice

This volume features the latest research findings on L2 interactional competence to demonstrate the potential for developing and implementing research-based pedagogy that targets interactional competence (IC) in early instruction in a variety of L2 learning and teaching contexts. Incorporating contributions from both leading and emerging researchers in the area the book is organized into four sections to provide a systematic account of interactional competence defined as a set of skills required to co-construct an effective interaction with a variety of interlocutors in a variety of settings and advocates for IC to be part of a well-rounded curriculum of L2 instruction. The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the different theoretical perspectives on IC within Conversation Analysis and moves into a discussion of conversation-analytic research findings from a variety of contexts and of their pedagogical implications. The book then presents examples of pedagogy in practice and also illustrates the potential for implementing IC in testing settings. This volume makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on interactional competence and will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics SLA language education curriculum and instruction studies and educational linguistics. Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license: https://tandfbis. s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138038998_oachapter13. pdf | Teaching and Testing L2 Interactional Competence Bridging Theory and Practice

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Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology thoroughly examines the meaning of culture in the context of neuropsychology focusing on the fundamental neuroscience underlying how different aspects of culture influence neuropsychological test performance and how that is related to brain function. It explores in detail the relationship between brain activity and culture and the influence of various cultural educational and linguistic factors on neuropsychological test performances across various cognitive domains. Written by leadings researchers in cross-cultural neuropsychology the book first introduces the basic concepts in the field. It goes on to focus on the influence of cultural variables on specific domains of cognition including perception attention memory language and executive functions. It also explores the implications of cross-cultural neuropsychology in practice including a focus on test adaptation the use of interpreters the influence of acculturation and the practice of neuropsychological rehabilitation in different cultural settings. This book is essential reading for neuropsychologists and related practitioners working with culturally diverse clients who need a good grasp of the cultural impacts on neuropsychological test performance when assessing clients from different cultural linguistic and educational backgrounds. It is also valuable for neuropsychologists in countries around the world who need a means of understanding the ways in which their culture impacts the performances of their clients on tests which have been mostly developed in the U. S. or other Western cultures. | Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

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Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Working with Diverse Populations

Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Working with Diverse Populations

Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing is a groundbreaking work that addresses the biases and inequalities within the field of forensic psychology. It gives valuable insights into individual practices and wider criminal justice approaches at an international level while providing tangible solutions to tackle the disparities. This book constructively critiques current forensic practice and psychological assessment approaches through a variety of diverse voices from pioneering researchers around the world who offer their expertise on these challenges and assist the reader to consider their potential contribution to pushing forward the frontiers of Forensic Psychology. The authors also locate the origin of these biases in order to further dismantle them and improve the outcomes for the forensic client base – especially specific diverse populations. They emphasise the need to be creative and evolve not just in line with the real-world changes of today but also to prevent the issues of tomorrow before they become the next news headline. This is a must read for professionals working in criminal justice forensic psychology legal psychology and related fields. It is also a compelling resource for students and researchers of forensic psychology with particular interest in social diversity and inclusion. | Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Working with Diverse Populations

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IET Wiring Regulations: Wiring Systems and Fault Finding for Installation Electricians

IET Wiring Regulations: Wiring Systems and Fault Finding for Installation Electricians

This book deals with an area of practice that many students and non-electricians find particularly challenging. It explains how to interpret circuit diagrams and wiring systems and outlines the principles of testing before explaining how to apply this knowledge to fault finding in electrical circuits. A handy pocket guide for anybody who needs to be able to trace faults in circuits whether in domestic commercial or industrial settings this book will be extremely useful to electricians plumbers heating engineers and intruder alarm installers. Fully up to date with the 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations 2018. Covers all the principles and practice of testing and fault diagnosis in a way that is clear for students and non-electricians. Expert advice from an engineering training consultant supported with colour diagrams and key data. | IET Wiring Regulations: Wiring Systems and Fault Finding for Installation Electricians

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Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

Screenwriting for micro-budget films can present its own challenges and this book takes the reader through all the considerations that need to be made to write an effective screenplay for a low-budget film. Drawing on his own experience case studies from films such as Primer Coherence and Reservoir Dogs as well as the perspectives of working screenwriters such as Joe Swanberg and Alex Ross-Perry Greenberg explores common pitfalls screenwriters face and suggests practical solutions. This book lays the groundworks of the realities of low-budget filmmaking and also talks through the practical aspects such as story structure and genre considerations. Greenberg makes the process of writing a screenplay for a low-budget film accessible and creative allowing student and independent filmmakers to tailor their writing for their films. This book is ideal for aspiring screenwriters independent filmmakers and students of screenwriting. | Screenwriting for Micro-Budget Films Tips Tricks and Hacks for Reverse Engineering Your Screenplay

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Research Methods for Environmental Studies A Social Science Approach

Research Methods for Environmental Studies A Social Science Approach

The methodological needs of environmental studies are unique in the breadth of research questions that can be posed calling for a textbook that covers a broad swath of approaches to conducting research with potentially many different kinds of evidence. Fully updated to address new developments such as the effects of the internet recent trends in the use of computers remote sensing and large data sets this new edition of Research Methods for Environmental Studies is written specifically for social science-based research into the environment. This revised edition contains new chapters on coding focus groups and an extended treatment of hypothesis testing. The textbook covers the best-practice research methods most used to study the environment and its connections to societal and economic activities and objectives. Over five key parts Kanazawa introduces quantitative and qualitative approaches mixed methods and the special requirements of interdisciplinary research emphasizing that methodological practice should be tailored to the specific needs of the project. Within these parts detailed coverage is provided on key topics including the identification of a research project hypothesis testing spatial analysis the case study method ethnographic approaches discourse analysis mixed methods survey and interview techniques focus groups and ethical issues in environmental research. Drawing on a variety of extended and updated examples to encourage problem-based learning and fully addressing the challenges associated with interdisciplinary investigation this book will be an essential resource for students embarking on courses exploring research methods in environmental studies. | Research Methods for Environmental Studies A Social Science Approach

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Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions

Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions

Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the-art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes. The volume includes a brief introduction followed by four main chapters focusing on critical developments in theories and practices for assessing reading listening writing and speaking of which the latter two also address the assessment of integrated skills such as reading-writing listening-speaking and reading-listening-speaking. Each chapter reviews new task types scoring approaches and scoring technologies and their implications in light of the increasing use of technology in academic communication and the growing use of English as a lingua franca worldwide. The volume concludes with recommendations about critical areas of research and development that will help move the field forward. Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is an ideal resource for researchers and graduate students in language testing and assessment worldwide.

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