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Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice
Thoroughly revised to emphasize the link between research and evidence-based practice, this Eighth Edition presents methods and tools for generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice. This edition offers more guidance on evaluating and critiquing research evidence. Other revisions include more in-depth coverage of both qualitative and quantitative research and a new chapter on developing and testing new instruments. Note: The for-sale Student Resource guide to accompany the text is now fully revised to meet emerging graduate course needs. New features include a free CD-ROM called the “Toolkit,” which includes copious application exercises, samples of systematic reviews, and full critiques of two of t… More >>
Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice
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Assessing Open and Distance Learners
Research has indicated that assessment is a key factor in student learning. This book details the issues of assessment in the open and distance learning field, where changes in budgets, the location and environment of the students and other factors have prompted innovations in assessment…. More >>
Assessing Open and Distance Learners
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Assessing What Professors Do: An Introduction to Academic Performance Appraisal in Higher Education
This book is a basic treatment of faculty performance appraisal in higher education. It is written for those scholars faced with the need to understand the issues and solutions to the often thorny problems posed by having to judge the performance of their colleagues in teaching, service, research and citizenship. Neophyte administrators, committee members, and those facing evaluation are often perplexed by the range and depth of the questions concerning what constitutes an effective and reasonable performance appraisal system. This book provides answers to the most common of these questions and integrates current thinking from education literature with models of strategic management from business administration… More >>
Assessing What Professors Do: An Introduction to Academic Performance Appraisal in Higher Education
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Assessing New Literacies: Perspectives from the Classroom
New literacies, globally popular among children and adolescents in and out of school contexts, are challenging educators and institutions to rethink pedagogies. As educators begin to embrace the pedagogical possibilities of multimodal texts and digital practices, they are exploring the complexities of assessing these new literacies. The essays in this book explore what it means to assess the sophisticated textual engagements of new literacies, including reading and writing online, social networking, gaming, multimodal composing, and creating virtual identities. Chapters offer practical examples of new literacies, and examine how assessment provides insight into the diverse ways in which language is conceived, v… More >>
Assessing New Literacies: Perspectives from the Classroom
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Assessing Learning In Further Education
This practical text has been written in response to the development of national standards for teachers and trainers in Further Education by FENTO (Further Education National Training organisation). Assessment theory and practice is an integral part of all the FENTO endorsed qualifications. This text has been designed as a practical study aid, as well as a friendly introduction to a large and complex subject. Key themes and activities within the text include: Mapping relevant FENTO standards against the everyday experiences of FE teachers; Providing concise and readable introductions to relevant theories; Summaries of relevant up-to-date research; Exercises to encourage trainees to reflect and to develop thei… More >>
Assessing Learning In Further Education
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