In this book, we argue that effective education must facilitate the identification, evaluation, and placement and instructional programming for learners with exceptionalities. Based upon the school improvement and effective education literature and standards-based reform movement, schools must adopt principles of school effectiveness and offer classroom instruction that is based upon a clear assessment of the instructional needs of learners with exceptionalities and the implementation of interventions to maximize their potential and classroom performance.
The book is designed to examine research from the disciplines of psychology, sociology, organizational theory, curriculum and instruction, and special education to address the critical issues related to the psychology of effective education for learners with exceptionalities.
The field of games is a rapidly expanding field. In many institutions throughout the world, an explosion of growth has been seen in the creation of game development programs as well as courses focusing on educational games. Games have also become a hot topic in the area of educational technology research. The expansion of interest in educational gaming is due to the increased advancement of digital games and the fact that the Net or Digital Generation has literally grown up surrounded by the idea of gaming. Whether it be role play games, collectible card games, board games, or computer and console video games, a new generation is emerging with a strong gaming background.
Games: Purpose and Potential in Education focuses on issues of how games can fit into education and instructional design. Some of these specific topics relate the ideas of identity development, gender diversity, motivation, and integrating instructional design with game development. Each of these areas is important in the field of instructional design and can have a large impact on learning.
This volume brings together leading experts, researchers, and instructors in the field of educational games and explores many of the current topics in the field of educational games and simulations, the future potential of the field, and resources related to educational games and simulations.
A highly practical resource for the classroom, this book offers clear, research-based recommendations for helping students at all grade levels understand and learn from what they read. Explaining the skills and strategies that good readers use to comprehend text, the authors show how to support struggling students in developing these skills. They present a variety of effective assessment procedures, ways to enhance vocabulary instruction and teach students about different text structures, and instructional practices that promote comprehension before, during, and after reading. Special features include discussion questions in every chapter and reproducible instructional materials and lesson plans.
A straightforward and specialized instructional text.
ATTENTION! THE TEXT CONTAINS EXPLICIT FORENSIC IMAGES NOT SUITABLE FOR KIDS!!!
Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigator's Handbook by forensic dental consultant C. Michael Bowers is a straightforward and specialized instructional text dedicated to teaching the foundations of dental investigation methodology to providing "need-to-know" information for law enforcement, coroners, crime scene personnel, investigators, and medical-legal personnel. Enhanced with more than 150 color photographs, Forensic Dental Evidence offers a straightforward basis of education concerning forensic odontology, as well as new advances and advice concerning digital comparison techniques which are now possible with Adobe Photoshop and other types of the latest computer and laboratory-based technologies. Forensic Dental Evidence is an expertly written and presented instructional that would form a core holding for any professional or academic Criminology or Forensic Science reference collection.
