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A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

First published in 1976 this A Theory of Group Structures is a study of the aggregation of individuals into groups which cuts across many different social sciences. Volume two examines a sequence of twelve experiments and reports empirical tests of the theory presented in volume one. The result is a major revision of existing research into problems of group structure and a case study in paradigm development. This book will be of interest to students of all social sciences. | A Theory of Group Structures Volume II: Empirical Tests

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An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment is the successor to Cooper’s prize-winning book Psychological Testing: Theory and Practice. This expanded and updated volume shows how psychological questionnaires and tests can be chosen administered scored interpreted and developed. In providing students researchers test users test developers and practitioners in the social sciences education and health with an evaluative guide to choosing using interpreting and developing tests it provides readers a thorough grasp of the principles (and limitations) of testing together with the necessary methodological detail. This book has three distinctive features. First it stresses the basic logic of psychological assessment without getting bogged down with mathematics; the spreadsheet simulations and utilities which are integrated into the text allow users to explore how numbers behave rather than reading equations. Readers will learn by doing. Second it covers both the theory behind psychological assessment and the practicalities of locating designing and using tests and interpreting their scores. Finally it is evaluative. Rather than just describing concepts such as test reliability or adaptive testing it stresses the underlying principles merits and drawbacks of each approach to assessment and methods of developing and evaluating questionnaires and tests. Unusually for an introductory text it includes coverage of several cutting-edge techniques and this new edition expands the discussion on measurement invariance methods of detecting/quantifying bias and hierarchical factor models and features added sections on: Best practices for translation of tests into other languages and problems of cultural bias Automatic item generation The advantages drawbacks and practicalities of internet-based testing Generalizability theory Network analysis Dangerous assumptions made when scoring tests The accuracy of tests used for assessing individuals The two-way relationship between psychometrics and psychological theory Aimed at non-mathematicians this friendly and engaging text will help you to understand the fundamental principles of psychometrics that underpin the measurement of any human characteristic using any psychological test. Written by a leading figure in the field and accompanied by additional resources including a set of spreadsheets which use simulated data and other techniques to illustrate important issues this is an essential introduction for all students of psychology and related disciplines. It assumes very little statistical background and is written for students studying psychological assessment or psychometrics and for researchers and practitioners who use questionnaires and tests to measure personality cognitive abilities educational attainment mood or motivation. | An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment Using Interpreting and Developing Tests

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Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research A New Approach

Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research A New Approach

Traditional approaches focused on significance tests have often been difficult for linguistics researchers to visualise. Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research: A New Approach breaks these significance tests down for researchers in corpus linguistics and linguistic analysis promoting a visual approach to understanding the performance of tests with real data and demonstrating how to derive new intervals and tests. Accessibly written this book discusses the ‘why’ behind the statistical model allowing readers a greater facility for choosing their own methodologies. Accessibly written for those with little to no mathematical or statistical background it explains the mathematical fundamentals of simple significance tests by relating them to confidence intervals. With sample datasets and easy-to-read visuals this book focuses on practical issues such as how to: • pose research questions in terms of choice and constraint; • employ confidence intervals correctly (including in graph plots); • select optimal significance tests (and what results mean); • measure the size of the effect of one variable on another; • estimate the similarity of distribution patterns; and • evaluate whether the results of two experiments significantly differ. Appropriate for anyone from the student just beginning their career to the seasoned researcher this book is both a practical overview and valuable resource. | Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research A New Approach

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Long Term Results of Infant School Methods

Long Term Results of Infant School Methods

First published in 1950 Long Term Results of Infant School Methods was written to explain and summarise the results of Gardner’s experiment to test the extent to which the effect of different styles of Infant school education experimental or control would also be apparent at a later stage. The book details how the tests and the schools involved were chosen; the different types of tests conducted and their respective aims; and a summary of Gardner’s conclusions. It will appeal to those with an interest in the history and theory of education.

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Statistical Concepts - A First Course

Statistical Concepts - A First Course

Statistical Concepts—A First Course presents the first 10 chapters from An Introduction to Statistical Concepts Fourth Edition. Designed for first and lower-level statistics courses this book communicates a conceptual intuitive understanding of statistics that does not assume extensive or recent training in mathematics and only requires a rudimentary knowledge of algebra. Covering the most basic statistical concepts this book is designed to help readers really understand statistical concepts in what situations they can be applied and how to apply them to data. Specifically the text covers basic descriptive statistics including ways of representing data graphically statistical measures that describe a set of data the normal distribution and other types of standard scores and an introduction to probability and sampling. The remainder of the text covers various inferential tests including those involving tests of means (e. g. t tests) proportions variances and correlations. Providing accessible and comprehensive coverage of topics suitable for an undergraduate or graduate course in statistics this book is an invaluable resource for students undertaking an introductory course in statistics in any number of social science and behavioral science disciplines. | Statistical Concepts - A First Course

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Assessment Policy Reform

Assessment Policy Reform

This book highlights the impact of policy and politics on assessment across the globe. With contributions from England the Irish Republic Northern Ireland Norway Sweden Switzerland and Wales it explores state-led assessment policies and practices that have been the subject of much debate. We are experiencing a shift from using assessments — especially national tests — as measurement instruments designed to produce information to a reliance on tests to influence policy and instruction. Once tests become high stakes — for students teachers and schools — even those that might have been reasonable monitors of educational success can lose dependability and credibility. However not all countries’ assessment policies follow the same model and the contributors explore and analyse a range of different national (and supra-national) assessment policy approaches and perspectives. The chapters identify the impetus behind changing assessment policies and practices and analyse ways forward and innovative approaches. Readers can draw their own conclusions about which model(s) can provide the best outcomes for learners – surely the most important part of the equation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Assessment in Education: Principles Policy & Practice. | Assessment Policy Reform

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Medical Conditions Affecting Pregnancy and Childbirth

Medical Conditions Affecting Pregnancy and Childbirth

Midwives are encountering more and more women whose pregnancies are complicated by medical conditions including cardiac disease obesity and diabetes. This new edition is completely up-to-date and offers highly practical solutions for everyday midwifery practice acknowledging the importance of promoting normality where possible. This text includes physiology explanations of conditions and principles of care for preconception pregnancy labour birth and the postnatal period. Each chapter brings together the basic knowledge of a condition and how it changes during pregnancy in an integrated and accessible way including a new chapter dedicated to obesity. Explanations of laboratory tests diagnostic tests common drugs and illustrative colour pictures are included in relevant chapters. Medical Conditions Affecting Pregnancy and Childbirth is a vital guide for student midwives as well as a useful reference for practising midwives.

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Bird's Basic Engineering Mathematics

Bird's Basic Engineering Mathematics

Now in its eighth edition Bird’s Basic Engineering Mathematics has helped thousands of students to succeed in their exams. Mathematical theories are explained in a straightforward manner supported by practical engineering examples and applications to ensure that readers can relate theory to practice. Some 1 000 engineering situations/problems have been ‘flagged-up’ to help demonstrate that engineering cannot be fully understood without a good knowledge of mathematics. The extensive and thorough coverage makes this a great text for introductory level engineering courses – such as for aeronautical construction electrical electronic mechanical manufacturing engineering and vehicle technology – including for BTEC First National and Diploma syllabuses City & Guilds Technician Certificate and Diploma syllabuses and even for GCSE revision. Its companion website provides extra materials for students and lecturers including full solutions for all 1 700 further questions lists of essential formulae multiple choice tests and illustrations as well as full solutions to revision tests for course instructors. | Bird's Basic Engineering Mathematics

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Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology

Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology

Now in its seventh edition Bird’s Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology introduces and covers theory through detailed examples and laboratory experiments enabling students to gain knowledge required by technicians in fields such as engineering electronics and telecommunications. This edition includes several new sections including glass batteries climate change the future of electricity production and discussions concerning everyday aspects of electricity such as watts and lumens electrical safety AC vs DC and trending technologies. The extensive and thorough topic coverage makes this a great text for a range of level 2 and 3 engineering courses which has helped thousands of students succeed in their exams. It is also suitable for BTEC First National and Diploma syllabuses City & Guilds Technician Certificate and Diploma syllabuses and Foundation Degrees in engineering. Its companion website at www. routledge. com/cw/bird provides resources for both students and lecturers including full solutions for all 900 further questions lists of essential formulae multiple-choice tests and illustrations as well as full solutions to revision tests and lab experiments for course instructors. | Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology

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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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Culture and General Education A Survey

Culture and General Education A Survey

Originally published in 1963 this remarkable book discusses the results of the ‘tests of culture’ devised by the author two of which when published in The Times Educational Supplement evoked such wide interest that he was almost overwhelmed with unsolicited test scores and correspondence. The late Kenneth Richmond was well aware that any attempt to ‘measure culture’ was open to ridicule. He makes it clear that he is concerned to measure it in its restricted sense of ‘academic or minority culture’ and he holds that there is a body of received opinion on the content of such culture which in the contemporary world is represented by two areas those of the scientists and of the literary intellectuals and that it is possible to pose questions that will test a person’s acquaintance with each. So the tests are no mere quizzes; the results from Universities Colleges the Services and Sixth Forms are often surprising sometimes disquieting in the light they throw on standards of general education at the time and on the ‘great divide’ between the scientist and the arts man. | Culture and General Education A Survey

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Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation is an up-to-date survey of the growing research on automatic item generation (AIG) in today’s technology-enhanced educational measurement sector. As test administration procedures increasingly integrate digital media and Internet use assessment stakeholders—from graduate students to scholars to industry professionals—have numerous opportunities to study and create different types of tests and test items. This comprehensive analysis offers thorough coverage of the theoretical foundations and concepts that define AIG as well as the practical considerations required to produce and apply large numbers of useful test items.

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When Writers Drive the Workshop Honoring Young Voices and Bold Choices

When Writers Drive the Workshop Honoring Young Voices and Bold Choices

With increasing school mandates and pressure to perform well on standardized tests writing instruction has shifted to more accountability taking the focus away from the writer. In his engaging book When Writers Drive the Workshop: Honoring Young Voices and Bold Choices author Brian Kissel asks teachers to go back to the roots of the writing workshop and let the students lead the conference. What happens when students not tests determine what they learned through reflection and self-evaluation? In When Writers Drive the Workshop you'll find practical ideas guiding beliefs FAQs and Digital Diversions to help visualize digital possibilities in the classroom. Written in an engaging teacher-to-teacher style this book focuses on four key components of writing workshop: Student-led conferring sessions where the teachers are the listeners. The Author's Chair- where students set the agenda and gather feedback. Structured reflection time for students to set goals and expectations for themselves. Mini lessons that allow for detours based on students' needs not teacher or curricula goals. All students have the powerful shared need to be heard; when they choose their writing topics they can see their lives unfold on the page. Teachers are educated by the bold choices of these young voices. | When Writers Drive the Workshop Honoring Young Voices and Bold Choices

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A Creative Primary Curriculum for All

A Creative Primary Curriculum for All

The curriculum in many primary schools in recent history became worryingly narrowed such that children were being prepared for tests more than their lives were being enriched with a variety of knowledge skills and experiences. It is clear that it is the latter that enables them to perform well in tests and in life so the time for change is now! This book seeks to empower teachers and school leaders to better understand what is meant by 'curriculum' and what a creative educational diet might look like in each individual school. The book explores curriculum intent implementation and impact. It includes leaders' reflection boxes and practical suggestions for busy teachers. Emma L. Palastanga analyses the need for a broad and balanced curriculum against the limitations of cramming for success and delves deep into the process of curriculum planning delivery and evaluation using Ofsted’s terminology. Examples of lessons and a range of different approaches are shared throughout the book. A Creative Primary Curriculum for All will give all subject leaders classroom teachers and teacher trainees the confidence to provide a rich exciting and varied curriculum meeting the needs of learners whilst also letting the craft of teaching and individual inspiration shine.

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A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning Linguistics Semiotics and Discourse Theory

A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning Linguistics Semiotics and Discourse Theory

In this book first published in 1987 Professor Schleifer sets Greimas’ work in its intellectual context and sets forth the development of his distinctive style of interpretation. Moreover the author goes on to consider Greimas’ work against the latest examinations of discourse in philosophy depth psychology and literary criticism. He tests Greimas’ semiotic square against Derridean deconstruction Lacanian psychoanalysis and the literary analyses of Paul de Man. This book will constitute an important and lucid survey of an often inaccessible critic and will be of interest to students of literature. | A. J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning Linguistics Semiotics and Discourse Theory

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Right Actions and Good Persons Controversies Between Eudaimonistic and Deontic Moral Theories

Right Actions and Good Persons Controversies Between Eudaimonistic and Deontic Moral Theories

First published in 1999 this work tests the ancient against the modern in discussing whether modern approaches to ethics remain sufficiently able to provide a serious and justifiable account of morality. Marjaana Kopperi explores ancient medieval and enlightenment philosophy to compare their notion of moral agents and ‘the good life’ with the more action-based notions of modern philosophy. Kopperi aims to examine how the promoters of agent-based ethical views deal with questions of what constitutes a good life and whether it can or should be quantified or justified. | Right Actions and Good Persons Controversies Between Eudaimonistic and Deontic Moral Theories

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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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Identity Conflict and Cooperation in International River Systems

Identity Conflict and Cooperation in International River Systems

Kalpakian tests the dominant assumption that water disputes cause violent conflict between states and other actors in world politics. Using case studies from arid regions to bias the effort towards this assumption he finds that issues related to identity have been the real source of conflict in the river basins studied. This essential volume: - challenges conventional assumptions about water and conflict - displaces the state as the sole actor in violent conflict - reveals the link between conflict and identity This book invites the reader to address the complexity in the relationships binding peoples and states in an international river basin. | Identity Conflict and Cooperation in International River Systems

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New Challenges in Local and Regional Administration

New Challenges in Local and Regional Administration

Focusing on democratization flexibilization ethnic diversity and restructuring of transitional and emerging states this volume analyzes the changes and challenges for administrative structures at the beginning of the 21st century from a geographical perspective. A team of leading scholars from throughout the world provides a differentiated spatial overview of key problems currently faced in public administration. By offering a wide range of regional case studies from Eastern and Western Europe the Middle East and Africa the book tests current theories and concepts of government and governance space and place and society and community. In doing so it offers valuable insights and makes policy implications. | New Challenges in Local and Regional Administration

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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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Security Policy Dynamics Effects of Contextual Determinants to South Korea

Security Policy Dynamics Effects of Contextual Determinants to South Korea

This title was first published in 2001: Byung-ok Kil's thorough analysis deals with both the broad area of public policy and the specific topic of national security policy change in Korea. Using an historical comparative approach he tests the relative importance of international and domestic developments as determinants of security policy change. Drawing extensively on carefully selected sources of quantitative and qualitative data including original documents and interviews this engaging text is of theoretical methodological and applied policy relevance to the academic community and of substantive interest to a broader audience of governmental officials in national security and related policy areas. | Security Policy Dynamics Effects of Contextual Determinants to South Korea

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The Art of Identity Creating and Managing a Successful Corporate Identity

The Art of Identity Creating and Managing a Successful Corporate Identity

This title was first published in 2000: This text redefines corporate identity. It offers an insight into the creation management and measurement of identity - and into why the right identity can transform your organization. With the help of tests and illustrations Mark Rowden challenges readers to jettison ineffectual compromises and half-baked solutions in order to achieve the identity that really gives an advantage. He focuses on correct thinking through the application of design and presents several management tools which should enable managers to define the fundamental qualities of their organization to translate them into visual media and to judge how well a new identity communicates them. | The Art of Identity Creating and Managing a Successful Corporate Identity

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Assessment in Speech and Language Therapy

Assessment in Speech and Language Therapy

What assessment tests are available to speech therapists? How are they best used? Originally published in 1993 Assessment in Speech and Language Therapy was designed to guide speech therapists in choosing the most appropriate assessments for evaluation monitoring and intervention at the time. By providing guidance on defining the issues in assessment it shows how to make sure that the process will produce a result relevant to the therapist’s own needs and those of his or her clients. The major issues involved are discussed in detail in particular how to make sure that assessments are relevant to individual needs. This title will be invaluable to all speech therapists and clinical psychologists working in this area.

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European Union Environment Policy and New Forms of Governance: A Study of the Implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directiv

European Union Environment Policy and New Forms of Governance: A Study of the Implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directiv

This title was first published in 2001. Outlining the results of a three-country study this text examines the impact of EU policy on the domestic political and institutional environment. It tests ideas about new forms of governance that reflect the values of participation and empowerment of local interests particularly through a close scrutiny of the environmental impact process. The book also analyzes the responses of the business sector in three countries - Germany Greece and Great Britain - to the introduction of a voluntary environmental management system the eco-management and audit scheme. | European Union Environment Policy and New Forms of Governance: A Study of the Implementation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directiv

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