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Special education in secondary schools
This textbook provides information on the practice of teaching special education in the secondary schools. Research-based practices are explained for supporting student functioning in language arts, math, and other content areas. Specifically, the eight chapters address: (1) Introduction to secondary special education; (2) Curriculum-based measures to inform learning; (3) Strategies for working…
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- 9781944548087
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- 131p. : ill.
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- 371.9 LOS s
Delivering on the promise of democracy : visual case studies in educational e…
"Many educators can recite the faults of their schools or universities, but far fewer can recognize and develop existing strengths to benefit a wider audience. Sukhwant Jhaj has crafted a refreshing new look at how imaginative leadership and a shift in perspective can propel institutions to reach at-risk or underrepresented members of their communities. Delivering on the Promise of Democracy pu…
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- 9781783745975
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- 378.19820973 JHA d
Learning in virtual worlds : research and applications
Three-dimensional (3D) immersive virtual worlds have been touted as being capable of facilitating highly interactive, engaging, multimodal learning experiences. Much of the evidence gathered to support these claims has been anecdotal but the potential that these environments hold to solve traditional problems in online and technology-mediated education—primarily learner isolation and student …
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- 9781771991360
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- xxvii, 329p. : ill.
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- 371.33468 LEA l
Successful global collaborations in higher education institutions
This open access book presents deep investigation to the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the reasons chosen to collaborate with other academic and research institutes. The environment in which universities currently exist is considered, and subsequently how an innovat…
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- 9783030255251
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- xvii, 93p. : ill.
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- 378 SUC s
An open book : what and how young children learn from picture and story books
Looking at and listening to picture and story books is a ubiquitous activity, frequently enjoyed by many young children and their parents. Well before children can read for themselves they are able to learn from books. Looking at and listening to books increases children’s general knowledge, understanding about the world and promotes language acquisition. This collection of papers demonstrate…
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- 9782889197286
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- 200p. : ill.
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- 372.4 OPE o
Teacher quality, instructional quality and student outcomes : relationships a…
This volume offers insights from modeling relations between teacher quality, instructional quality and student outcomes in mathematics across countries. The relations explored take the educational context, such as school climate, into account. The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the only international…
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- 9783319412528
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- viii, 166p. : ill.
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- 371.26 TEA t
School achievement and failure in Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries
This book is devoted to an increasingly important educational problem in the modern societies: school achievement and failure. School failure is presently a problem in developed as well as in developing countries. In the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries in Europe and Latin America, school achievement and failure is consequently an important topic of political, social and scientific dis…
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- 9782889455522
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- 128p. : ill.
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- 371.2 SCH s
The responsible university : exploring the Nordic context and beyond
This book explores how the notion of the responsible university manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education. As the impetus of the knowledge society has catapulted the higher education sector to the forefront of policy agendas, universities and other types of higher education institutions face increasing scrutiny, assessment and accountability. This book examines this phen…
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- 9783030256463
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- xvii, 318p. : ill.
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- 378.00948 RES r
Didactic classroom studies : a potential research direction
"In the anthology Didactic classroom studies. A potential research direction didactic classroom studies are characterized and discussed in relation to, on the one hand, didactics and, on the other hand, classroom studies. It is argued that classroom studies has particular potential for realizing the ambitions that constitute didactics in empirical studies – to simultaneously focus processes o…
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- 9789188661456
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- 244p. : ill.
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- 371.102 DID d
Raising the impact of education research in Africa
The low demonstrable effect of education research done in South Africa in particular – and Africa in general – continues to be a problem in scientific records in the educational sciences. This scholarly collected work addresses this obstacle and focuses on recommendations from scholars in different sectorial categories in the field of education. Scholars from a variety of sub-fields within …
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- 9781928396802
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- xxvii, 412p. : ill.
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- 370.7096 RAI r
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