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Quick ViewThis book provides a comprehensive overview of onboarding library staff, paraprofessionals, and student workers in academic libraries. This book details examples of current literature regarding onboarding and libraries, and highlights the use of cases concerning institutions’ efforts creating onboarding programs for library staff. The chapters in this collection focus on a variety of onboarding practices…
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Quick ViewEducation is the harbinger of change; technological learning in the Information Age is at the cusp of that change, bringing new technologies, enhanced interfaces, dialogue, mobile learning and networked resources that shape content, sharing and distribution of information. These aspects influence the people and society of the “climate century”. The Information Age follows the production…
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Quick ViewMany scientific studies confirm the positive effects of music education in prenatal and earliest phases of life on childrens’ holistic development. In this book, the authors’ examine how musical development and learning are established in the family environment and the effects of music on children’s development. Other chapters examine musical and non-musical learning as a…
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Quick ViewFormerly excluded from measures of educational performance, students with disabilities (SWDs) are now explicitly recognized in federal and state accountability systems. At the national level, the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) laid the foundation for accountability for SWDs by requiring states to include these students in state and district assessments…
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Quick ViewSince the publication of A Nation At Risk in 1983 that sounded alarms about the quality of the nation’s schools, the United States has been on a path toward restructuring its education system. Alternative pathways to educational success are needed at every step of the way, ranging from essential early intervention and prevention strategies in…
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Quick ViewThe purpose of the opening chapter is to highlight the significance of ensuring effective classroom management and learner discipline practices by teachers in schools. Lack of classroom management and learner discipline practices presents a global challenge. The authors in the following chapter reflect on their experiences of using action learning in academic development initiatives, and…
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Quick ViewNo single method has proven effective in differentiating between English learner students who have difficulty acquiring language skills and those who have learning disabilities. As a result, schools, districts, and states struggle with this issue. Misidentified students can end up in classrooms or programs mismatched to their needs, which could hamper their educational achievement. Research…
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Student Motivation: Perspectives, Improvement Strategies and Challenges opens with a study wherein the authors cross-validate the modified four-scale SALES (when used for the first time with gifted students) in terms of factorial validity and internal consistency reliability. The correlation between the six learning environment scales and each SALES scale was statistically significant, with task orientation…
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This handbook was conceived upon a realisation that while education systems in African countries share many commonalities because of a common history, there was paucity of shared literature regarding school leadership in those systems. Scholars and students of Educational Leadership and Management have for many decades relied, in fact over-relied on literature from Europe, North…
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Quick ViewThe Commission held a briefing entitled, “School Discipline and Disparate Impact” on February 11, 2011 to examine the effect of the U.S. Department of Education’s disparate impact initiative announced in the fall of 2010 for schools and school districts across the country. The Commission asked teachers and administrators from racially diverse public school districts how…
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Quick ViewThe Black College and University Act defined an historically black college and university (HBCU) as one that existed before 1964 with a historic and contemporary mission of educating blacks while being open to all. An HBCU must either have earned accreditation from a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association or be making reasonable progress toward…
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Quick ViewEducation is foundational to human development and critical to broad-based economic growth. Few societies have achieved high and sustained rates of growth or significantly reduced poverty without first investing in expanding access to quality education. Further, education has proven essential for developing an informed and active citizenry, required for healthy democratic practice and for enabling…
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Quick ViewEvery 26 seconds in the United States, a teenager drops out of school. A well implemented early warning system can help educators and others identify students at risk of dropping out and assign and monitor interventions to keep them on track for graduation. This book summarizes what is known about early warning system implementation and…
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Quick ViewThe authors of this book discuss the latest developments in special education research. The chapters included examine the three main components of “sense of coherence,” all of which are involved in the long-term outcome of people in special education; the development and evaluation of competency-based teacher training programs in the field of special education; cultural…
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Quick ViewBasic library skills and Information Technology skills are foundations of information literacy competences. Information literacy is also essential for everybody to continue lifelong learning independently. In this sophisticated information society, it becomes more serious that an information gap between library users with information literacy and those without information literacy is increasingly expanded by the spread…
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Quick ViewAcademic performance is determined by several factors. The aim of the first paper in this book is to describe the relationship between the goals of adolescents, their everyday life and the influence these factors have on academic achievement. Chapter two focuses on a longitudinal investigation of students’ well-being experiences within the framework of motivational beliefs.…
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Quick ViewThe ongoing Progress in Education series presents substantial results from around the globe in selected areas of educational research. Schools are institutions that sail in the tempest of educational issues, reforms, strategies, data and tools, as well as reflect changes in society. Embedded in all of these are technology, diversity, and innovation – their inevitability…
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Quick ViewInformation is now available almost instantaneously from multiple locations and diverse perspectives, through different tools and interoperable means, offering an onsite, online and mixed reality environment that facilitates learning more than ever before. Learning is a progression from knowledge acquisition, meaning and signification construction to transferable knowledge, signification, skills and competencies across fields and disciplines…
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Quick ViewPrograms and policies designed to promote higher levels of financial capability among youth have proliferated in recent years in the aftermath of the recent economic crisis. This trend is fueled by the growing recognition that more must be done to equip young people with the knowledge, skills and attitudes that will serve as the basis…
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Quick ViewThis book is an invitation to reflect on anything concerning culture, and especially its institutionalized form of education. It aims to share with readers any data shaped by place and time that concerns education. The content of this interesting and informative manuscript is an expansive overview of the evolution of education, starting from the ancient…
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Quick ViewThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) believes integrating financial education throughout the K-12 experience represents a promising opportunity to reach consumers at pivotal points in their development and financial lives. When we start early with age-appropriate and relevant financial education and consistently reinforce those lessons throughout the K-12 years, we can give young people more…
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Quick ViewOrganizational learning is the process of creating, retaining and transferring knowledge within an organization. This book aims to examine the relationship between five contextual factors and the occurrence frequency of learning organization (LO) problems in companies that are implementing LM (lean manufacturing). Other chapters present an overview about the new web technologies’ potential (such as…
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Quick ViewDropping out of high school is related to a number of negative outcomes. Among adults age 25 and older, a lower percentage of dropouts are in the labor force than are adults who earned a high school credential. Similarly, among adults in the labor force, a higher percentage of dropouts are unemployed than are adults…
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Quick ViewThis is a book for everyone trying to improve early childhood education and special needs education. The main goal with this book is to describe theoretical and empirical research on early childhood education and special needs education that focuses on children and students’ learning conditions. This book is dominated by a research tradition which stays…
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