Higher Education 27

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The author is current an adjunct professor in the United States, and has enjoyed years of teaching students from around the world. A number of students from Saudi Arabia in particular have passed th……続きを見る

Today’s A levels can seem very confusing for students and their parents. Having just completed GCSE examinations and gone through the nerve-wracking process of waiting for results, it can be very da……続きを見る

It’s no secret that college doesn’t prepare students for the real world. Student loan debt recently eclipsed credit card debt for the first time in history and now tops one trillion dollars. And the……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege.”ーMichael Wolff, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Fire and Fury, in the New York Times Book Revi……続きを見る

The key to quality and effective Achievement-Based Curriculum in physical education is assessment. Valid placement and instructional decisions cannot be made or evaluated without appropriate assessm……続きを見る

Management is a dynamic life giving element in every organisation. It provide dynamic force that is necessary to convert disorganized resources of men, machines, materials, money into a productive o……続きを見る

Assessment is a value-laden activity surrounded by debates about academic standards, preparing students for employment, measuring quality and providing incentives. There is substantial evidence that……続きを見る

Distance and Blended Learning in Asia is a unique and comprehensive overview of open, distance learning (ODL) and information and communication technology (ICT) in Asian education and training. Broa……続きを見る

Rigorous research is crucial to effective work with young people and increasingly youth practitioners need to be able to develop, review and evidence their work using a variety of research and asses……続きを見る

Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through detailed institutional ethnographies of three very……続きを見る

Affordability, access, and accountability have long been among the central challenges facing higher educationーand they remain so today. Here, Donald E. Heller and other higher education scholars an……続きを見る

First Published in 2000. This is the fourth edition of a handbook that has already become well-known to many academic staff. Its popularity rests on the way it presents ideas about teaching and lear……続きを見る

Higher education is more important than ever, for individual success and for national economic growth. And yet higher education in the United States is in crisis: public funding has been in free fal……続きを見る

A complete guide for successful studying, How to Study is concise, practical, time-tested, and free of gimmicks. Designed originally for freshmen at the University of Chicago, this smart book has he……続きを見る

In recent decades there has been increasing attention to mass atrocities such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other gross human rights violations. At the same time, there has b……続きを見る

This book guides the student through the transition from passive learner to active researcher. Covering everything from choosing and refining a research topic to writing the actual report, the book ……続きを見る

This text looks at how university teachers can teach their students learning strategies. It describes how teachers can teach each strategy in their normal classes and encourage students to use the s……続きを見る

The university system has its problems. Students invest a lot of time and money in education but all too often don't get what they came for. In What's Wrong With University , Jeff Rybak addresses th……続きを見る

There are writing centers at almost every college and university in the United States, and there is an emerging body of professional discourse, research, and writing about them. The goal of this boo……続きを見る

James Stevens’ best-selling text, Intermediate Statistics, is written for those who use, rather than develop, statistical techniques. Dr. Stevens focuses on a conceptual understanding of the materia……続きを見る

From energy and water resources to natural disasters, and from changing climatic patterns to the evolution of the Earth’s deep interior, geoscience research affects people’s lives in many ways and o……続きを見る

Calls to understand ‘what works’ in education are being made the world over. We need to know not only ‘what works’ but under what conditions, how and why. Causation is central to this. Researchers, ……続きを見る

Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries of teachers, the number and type of potential stude……続きを見る

10 CRITICAL FACTORS IN FUNDRAISING outlines a crash course in the art of raising gift support for schools, colleges, universities, and other types of nonprofit organizations. Although designed espec……続きを見る

In textbooks and courses in statistics, substantive and measurement issues are rarely, if at all, considered. Similarly, textbooks and courses in measurement virtually ignore design and analytic que……続きを見る

Improving Student Retention in Higher Education provides a practical, curriculum-based response to the current situation in higher education, where participating students emanate from a range of bac……続きを見る

The second edition of Effective Gradingーthe book that has become a classic in the fieldーprovides a proven hands-on guide for evaluating student work and offers an in-depth examination of the link ……続きを見る

Presenting the work of a highly innovative partnership between the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education and eight secondary schools, this book explores this networked learning community whic……続きを見る

Biomechanics is the application of mechanical principles to living organisms. This includes bioengineering, the research and analysis of the mechanics of living organisms and the application of engi……続きを見る