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Reflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed
by Patricia Akhimie Marc Aronson Ulla D. Berg Kimberly Camp Kelly-Jane Cotter David Dreyfus Adrienne Eaton Katherine Epstein Paul Falkowski Rigoberto González James Goodman David Greenberg Jonathan Scott Holloway James W. Hughes Amy Jordan Vikki S. Katz Mackenzie Kean Amir Lighty Revathi Machan Stephen Masaryk Yalidy Matos Susan Miller Yehoshua November Joyce Carol Oates Katherine Ognyanova Gregory Pardlo Steve Pikiell Benjamin Pukert Caridad Svich Mary E. O'Dowd Angelique Haugerud Leslieann Hobayan Stephanie Bonne Mark Doty Leah Falk Naomi Jackson Louis Masur Belinda McKeon David Orr Teresa PolitanoReflections on the Pandemic: COVID and Social Crises in the Year Everything Changed is a collection of essays, poems, and artwork that captures the raw energy and emotion of 2020 from the perspective of the Rutgers University community. The project features work from a diverse group of Rutgers scholars, students, staff, and alumni. Reflecting on 2020 from a number of perspectives – mortality, justice, freedom, equality, democracy, family, health, love, hate, economics, history, medicine, science, social justice, the environment, art, food, sanity – the book features contributions by Evie Shockley, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Jackson, Ulla Berg, Grace Lynne Haynes, Jordan Casteel, and President Jonathan Holloway, among others. This book, through its rich and imaginative storytelling at the intersection of scholarly expertise and personal narrative, brings readers into the hearts and minds of not just the Rutgers community but the world. Contributors include: Patricia Akhimie, Marc Aronson, Ulla D. Berg, Stephanie Bonne, Stephanie Boyer, Kimberly Camp, Jordan Casteel, Kelly-Jane Cotter, Mark Doty, David Dreyfus, Adrienne E. Eaton, Katherine C. Epstein, Leah Falk, Paul G. Falkowski, Rigoberto González, James Goodman, David Greenberg, Angelique Haugerud, Grace Lynne Haynes, Leslieann Hobayan, Jonathan Holloway, James W. Hughes, Naomi Jackson, Amy Jordan, Vikki Katz, Mackenzie Kean, Robert E. Kopp, Christian Lighty, Stephen Masaryk, Louis P. Masur, Revathi V. Machan, Yalidy Matos, Belinda McKeon, Susan L. Miller, Yehoshua November, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary E. O’Dowd, Katherine Ognyanova, David Orr, Gregory Pardlo, Steve Pikiell, Teresa Politano, en Purkert, Nick Romanenko, Evie Shockley, Caridad Svich, and Didier William.
Reflective Assessment for Deep Learning and Knowledge Building: An Empirical Case in China
by Chunlin LeiKnowledge building aims to transform schools into learning communities and bring knowledge creation into schools. The book therefore elaborates on how learning, technology, and assessment can be aligned both online and offline to facilitate such a process.Adopting a quasi-experimental design and drawing on rich data from forum discussions, questionnaires, interviews, learning outcomes, and classroom presentations, this book shows that the knowledge building environment, augmented by reflective assessment and principles, helped Chinese students to develop a deeper approach to learning, improved academic performance, and promoted collective knowledge advances. The book also discusses the potentials and challenges of designing technology-supported, assessment- and principle-based learning environments in tertiary contexts, especially when deep learning and knowledge building capacity are greatly emphasised in the knowledge era.The book will be of interest to scholars and educators working in learning sciences and computer-supported collaborative learning.
Reflektierte Zielsetzung: Ein Ansatz zur Persönlichkeits- und Führungskräfteentwicklung
by Cheryl J. TraversDieses Buch präsentiert erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über das Modell des "Reflective Goal Setting", seinen theoretischen Rahmen und Ursprung sowie seine praktischen Anwendungen für die persönliche Entwicklung, verbesserte Bewältigung und Stressreduktion, akademisches Wachstum und Leistungsfähigkeit sowie Führung. In drei Teile gegliedert, untersucht die Autorin zunächst die besondere Bedeutung der persönlichen Entwicklung, insbesondere der Entwicklung von Soft Skills und zwischenmenschlichen Fähigkeiten. Unter Verwendung von Originalforschung und anschaulichen Fallstudien beschreibt die Autorin den zyklischen Fünf-Schritte-Prozess des "Reflective Goal Setting" in fünf Kapiteln, die Teil 2 des Buches bilden. Teil 3 untersucht die praktischen Anwendungen und Auswirkungen der Verwendung von "Reflective Goal Setting" anhand anschaulicher Fallstudien aus verschiedenen Bereichen, einschließlich Hochschulbildung, beruflicher Entwicklung und Führungskräfteentwicklung. Dieses Werk ist eine wertvolle Ressource für Forscher:innen und Praktiker:innen in den Bereichen Organisations- und Industriepsychologie, Bildung sowie Wirtschaft und Management sein - und für jede/n, der/die an der persönlichen Entwicklung arbeiten möchte.Die Übersetzung wurde mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz durchgeführt. Eine anschließende menschliche Überarbeitung erfolgte vor allem in Bezug auf den Inhalt.
Reframing Community Engagement in Higher Education
by Elena Klaw Andrea Tully Elaine K. IkedaThis timely book addresses assumptions and challenges inherent within community engagement as a catalyst for developing students’ sense of civic responsibility at a time of rampant social polarization. Promoting academic development and life skills through the high-impact practice of service-learning, the book explores a new ecological framework for reflecting on and improving practice. This book describes new models such as the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps, offers advice on coalition building, and presents the narratives of community-engaged professionals and faculty, offering a sense both of tensions inherent in this work and examples of initiatives in local contexts. Chapters primarily reflect on what action is required for fulfilling our public purpose and what’s holding us back. This book provides guidance, examples, and benchmarks for best practices in community engagement that are particularly relevant to this time of crises and unrest and will be relevant to community-engaged professionals, higher education faculty, and college administrators.
Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership: Race, Gender, and Institutional Change
by Seth Nii Asumah Mechthild NagelHow can we tackle racism and sexism on our college and university campuses? What is the role of education leaders in advancing social justice? Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership addresses the urgent need for more than merely performative gestures toward—and a redoubled, authentically engaged investment in—diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Seth N. Asumah and Mechthild Nagel examine how traditional leadership models have tended to exacerbate racial and gender inequities in United States higher education and society at large. Using a cross-cultural, comparative approach indebted to critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, and Black feminism, Asumah and Nagel draw on decades of combined experience in the US and globally to provide a framework for inclusive leadership practices, actions, and policies. A valuable resource for administrators, faculty, students, and political and industry leaders, Reframing Diversity and Inclusive Leadership responds to calls for justice on campuses and beyond.
Reframing the Everyday in Early Childhood Pedagogy: Conceptualising the Mundane
by Casey Y. Myers Kylie Smith Rochelle L. Hostler Marek TesarDespite vast possible differences across geographic locations, cultural practices, community values, and curricular priorities, there are everyday events that are intimately familiar in the context of early childhood care and education centres. By attending to the daily events that are often overlooked and considerably under-theorized, this insightful text highlights the complexity of the everyday in early childhood settings. Contributions to this edited collection are organized to follow the chronology of a school day; each chapter draws upon post-foundational theories and empirical qualitative data in order to (re)examine a familiar routine within an early years centre, such as walking down the hallway, eating a snack, napping, or changing one’s clothing. The authors argue for a mundane early childhood praxis that attends to the pedagogical possibilities within the seemingly unremarkable and highlights its importance, especially during what are understood to be unprecedented times. This book will be of interest to advanced practitioners, graduate students, and scholars, and for use in courses in early childhood education, childhood studies, and educational foundations.
Reimagining Adult Education as World Building: Creating Learning Ecologies for Transformation (American Association for Adult and Continuing Education)
by Aliki Nicolaides Ahreum Lim Neal Herr Trisha BarefieldReimagining Adult Education as World Building offers a new way of thinking about adult education by re-envisaging how adult education works. It explores how the process of world building, or the invention of a new world or a set of concepts, can be translated into actual and feasible action when turning towards complex, real-life problems.Cultivating contexts where adult educators can become change agents, who recognize that the individual and community are intricately entangled, demands that educators grow new capacities, make new tools, develop thicker networks, and cultivate intentional links amongst each other to foster ecologies of transformation. This book shows how educators can create an ecology or environment for transformative thinking where students can learn to collaborate and use world building tools to create new responses to current issues. It begins by explaining the philosophical underpinnings of world building and the tools that translate pragmatic imagination into scaffolds for individual and collective capacity building. It also illustrates how the worldbuilding protocol makes a difference in adult learning and how this pedagogical tool introduces the ecological approach to adult education. Each chapter explores a practical case study, showing how learners have applied worldbuilding tools to complex challenges.Showing how to apply the world building protocol in a classroom setting, this edited collection will be valuable to Adult Education scholars, researchers, practitioners, and learning facilitators.
Reimagining Border in Cross-border Education
by Neeta Inamdar Pranjali KirloskarUniversities are inherently and definitionally universal in their quest for the creation and dissemination of knowledge. They are set to defy borders that exist in parochial forms. Globalization which opened up borders has by design or default created inequalities and imbalances in knowledge systems. Undoubtedly, knowledge is power but there is difference in the power that is intrinsic to it and the power that is ascribed which is determined by dominant political and economic hierarchies. If knowledge predominantly flows from global north to global south, people seeking knowledge move from global south to global north. These imbalances are also seen within these regions, between cultures and communities, one claiming superiority over the other. These realities call for a reassessment of not only what constitutes knowledge, but also what encompasses the idea of borders. This book elaborates on the inclusive role of education that can act as an equalizer or as a catalyst for creating a level playing field across borders. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Reimagining Boredom in Classrooms through Digital Game Spaces: Sociomaterial Perspectives (Routledge Research in Education)
by Noreen DunnettThis book challenges common understandings of boredom and disengagement in classrooms, taking a relational approach to boredom which looks beyond the usual distinctions between in-school and out-of-school practices. The book explores how a sociomaterial perspective can provide an alternative analysis of boredom as performative, and as a phenomenon assembled in space and time rather than as a psychological attribute of the individual student. This perspective explores the affective experience of learning and how it is created in the classroom through assemblages of people, technology, objects and environment and the differing relations within them. Drawing on empirical data from a case study which compares formal learning and digital gaming practices in a group of secondary schools in England, the book suggests that by altering the affordances and constraints available in learning situations we can prevent boredom and disengagement emerging in the classroom. This innovative book proposes that the mobility and dynamism of game spaces offer us new ways to re-imagine engagement in learning and will be of relevance to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of teaching and learning, digital gaming, educational philosophy and educational technology.
Reimagining Nigeria's Educational System: Improving Academic Performance Through High Stakes Standardized Testing (Routledge Contemporary Africa)
by Joseph A. BalogunThis book assesses the challenges within the Nigerian educational system and provides a concrete plan to revitalize the low-performing system by strengthening high-stakes testing at all levels. In Nigeria, many citizens believe that the solution to the country’s low performance in education is to eliminate high-stakes standardized testing. High-stakes testing refers to applying standardized student achievement tests as a primary mechanism to evaluate students, teachers, and their school’s performance. This book argues that the poor quality of education and low ranking of Nigeria’s educational system is not related to the negative consequences of high-stakes testing, but rather is due to many intrinsic factors. By conducting a comparative analysis of six high-performing education systems worldwide, the book offers a comparative summative evaluation of the educational system and offers recommendations. This book will be of interest to policymakers and scholars in the fields of African education, higher education, quality and global studies, African studies, management and administration, leadership, and professional development studies. Joseph Abiodun Balogun is former Dean and retired Distinguished University Professor at the College of Health Sciences, Chicago State University, USA, Visiting Professor/Program Consultant at the Centre of Excellence in Reproductive Health Innovation, University of Benin, Nigeria, and President/ CEO, Joseph Rehabilitation Center, Tinley Park, Illinois, USA.
Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Volume 2 (Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment)
by Sara Tolbert Maria F. G. Wallace Marc Higgins Jesse BazzulThis volume, a follow up to Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene (2021), continues a transdisciplinary conversation around reconceptualizing science education in the era of the Anthropocene. Drawing educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together in a creative work that helps reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with this contemporary geologic time. This work continues the mission of transforming the ways communities inherit science and technology education: its knowledges, practices, policies, and ways-of-living-with-Nature. Our understanding of the Anthropocene is necessarily open and pluralistic, as different beings on our planet experience this time of crisis in different ways. This second volume continues to nurture productive relationships between science education and fields such as science studies, environmental studies, philosophy, the natural sciences, Indigenous studies, and critical theory in order to provoke a science education that actively seeks to remake our shared ecological and social spaces in the coming decades and centuries. This is an open access book.
Reina Ramos: Reina Ramos: Tour Guide (Spanish Edition) (I Can Read Level 2)
by Emma OtheguyThis popular Level Two beginning reader title about Reina Ramos showing her cousin around her beloved city is now available in Spanish translation. This Spanish-language book can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers as well as those learning the language, whether at home or in a classroom.Reina tiene muchas ganas de que su primo llegue de visita. Pero al comienzo, no es tan divertido como ella había imaginado. Andrés siempre está conversando con la abuela sobre gente y lugares que Reina no conoce. Sin embargo, la amistad entre los dos florece cuando Reina decide mostrarle a Andrés lo que hay en su ciudad.Reina Ramos: la guía turística es un libro ¡Yo sé leer! de nivel dos concebido para los niños que leen solos pero todavía necesitan un poco de ayuda. Ya sea que se compartan en el hogar o en el aula, está demostrado que las historias cautivantes, las oraciones más largas y los juegos del lenguaje de los libros del nivel dos ayudan a los niños a dar los siguientes pasos hacia el éxito en la lectura.
Reina Ramos: Tour Guide (I Can Read Level 2)
by Emma Otheguy"An easy reader with a simple plot, packed with all things adorable. Reina Ramos fills a need for representation and brings a metaphorical sliding glass door to classroom libraries" —School Library Journal Reina Ramos is a tour guide in this Level Two I Can Read story. Perfect for social emotional learning. Features Spanish vocabulary!Reina Ramos is the creation of Emma Otheguy, a children’s author who writes about Latin identity. The Reina I Can Read stories have engaging illustrations from Andrés Landazabal. Reina can’t wait for her cousin’s visit. At first, it’s not as much fun as she’d imagined. Andrés is always talking to Abuela about people and places Reina doesn't know. But their friendship soon blossoms when Reina shares her city with Andrés.Reina Ramos: Tour Guide is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the engaging stories, longer sentences, and language play of Level Two books are proven to help kids take their next steps toward reading success. The story contains several Spanish words.Acclaim for the first Reina Ramos I Can Read: Kirkus Best Book List for Early Readers 2022 and Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best List 2022Praise for Reina Ramos Works It Out: "A sparkling tale starring a resilient young protagonist" —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“This Level Two beginning reader contains an engaging, relatable story for emergent readers that features simple text, a sprinkling of Spanish vocabulary, and sweet illustrations on each page.” —ALA Booklist"The Spanish words and positive messages about managing conflict and problem-solving make this a welcome addition to beginning reader collections." —School Library JournalAlso available in Spanish: Reina Ramos: la guía turística
Reinvent Yourself: Psychological Insights That Will Transform Your Work Life
by Dr Susan KahnWe are all striving towards a fulfilling career. Discover the psychological insights that will unlock your talent, build your confidence and allow you to develop a versatile mindset. You deserve a career that allows you to fully harness your skills and lead a rewarding and satisfying life. In Reinvent Yourself, Susan Kahn offers original psychological insights and strategies that will show you how to focus your efforts, build your network and navigate any challenge in your work life. Drawing upon both psychological research and first-hand stories from a diverse range of businesspeople and experts, this book is a call-to-action for you to overcome any doubts and tap into your full potential. Break free from the grind and pursue a career that works for you through the illuminating insights, strategies and stories from Reinvent Yourself.
Rekonstruktionen von Bildungs: Begriffliche und berufspraktische Aushandlungen von Gesamtschul- und Gymnasiallehrer*innen (Rekonstruktive Bildungsforschung #46)
by Katharina GraalmannIn diesem Buch werden aus Interviews mit Gymnasial- und Gesamtschullehrer*innen in der Logik der Dokumentarischen Methode vier Typen von Lehrer*innenorientierungen zu Bildungs(un-)gerechtigkeit rekonstruiert:• Im wissenschaftsorientierten Typ wird Bildungs(un-)gerechtigkeit beruflich zurückgewiesen.• Im schüler*innenorientierten Typ wird Bildungsungerechtigkeit als den Berufsalltag leitendes Problem markiert.• Im stressorientierten Typ wird Bildungs(un-)gerechtigkeit als zusätzlicher Stressor im Berufsalltag herausgestellt.• Im grenzorientierten Typ wird Bildungsungerechtigkeit entlang eigener Grenzen beruflich problematisiert. Neben der Erkenntnis von vier verschiedenen modi operandi im Umgang mit Bildungs(un-)gerechtigkeit im Lehrer*innenberuf an Gymnasien und Gesamtschulen wird das Wording als zentral herausgestellt, um Kategorisierungen, Bewertungen und Reifizierungspotenzial aus dem Konzept zu nehmen. Zudem sind eine Reflexion der eigenen Berufsbiografie und sozialer Positionierungen sowie die Inszenierung des eigenen beruflichen Ethos wichtig, um (Nicht-)Passungskonsequenzen im schulischen Kontext zu verringern.
Relational Team Coaching
by Erik De Haan Dorothee StoffelsRelational Team Coaching is a state-of-the-art reference book detailing what makes team coaching effective, with a focus on being able to work at a relational level within the here and now, about what is going on in the present in the team and between the team and the coach. The scope of the book is comprehensive, exploring challenging and topical issues. Part A presents an introduction to team coaching and to a relational, integrative approach to team coaching, providing access to all relevant background, research and case studies of team coaching in action. Part B deepens how this relational philosophy looks in practice and what it means for choices and working methodology of the team coach. Part C, finally, explores how the team coach can step up to face or address the more challenging or professional aspects of practice (e.g., of contracting, diversity and inclusion, and the shadow side of boards). This book is an essential guide to relational-based effectiveness in team coaching. It will be a key text for all coaching practitioners, including those in training.
Relazioni Internazionali: Concetti Base e Questioni Globali
by Shahid Hussain RajaQuesta è una raccolta di 46 Saggi lunghi su diverse tematiche globali, scritti per coloro che sono desiderosi di sapere quali sono le grandi questioni e le idee che plasmano la Politica Globale, ma non hanno il tempo di fare ricerche su Internet per comprenderle a fondo. Dalla Globalizzazione alla Crisi Sirian da un lato, e dallo Scontro di Civiltà alla Fine della Storia, dall'altro, questi saggi trattano argomenti di cui quasi tutti hanno una conoscenza rudimentale, ma che non sono in grado di approfondire. Ad esempio, il Terrorismo, le privatizzazioni, la corruzione, le Riforme agrarie, ecc. sono alcuni degli argomenti di cui tutti parlano ma che non sono in grado di discutere in modo esaustivo. In questi saggi abbiamo cercato di fornire il materiale sufficiente per farlo. Questa raccolta è per chiunque sia desideroso di conoscere le questioni globali da una prospettiva diversa. Frutto di una Ricerca esaustiva, questi saggi presentano in un linguaggio semplice le basi di ogni questione e tralasciano le cose meno importanti. 'Cosa c'è di nuovo in questo libro?'. Beh, solo due cose: la facilità di comprensione delle complesse questioni globali e la facilità di ricordare i punti salienti per rispondere alle domande in sede d'esame o durante una discussione. Anche se non c'è alcuna pretesa di originalità del materiale, noterete comunque i nostri contributi alla Letteratura sui vari temi trattati.
Religion and Education in India
by Arshad AlamThis book studies the relationship between religion and education in the Indian context. It analyses the creative interface between religion and education as empirical categories and overlapping modes of pedagogical transmission. The volume investigates the ways in which religious identities are shaped through education both at home and at school. It brings together academics and researchers working in different faith traditions like Islam, Hinduism, and Sikhism to understand the significance of transmitting religious education and the need to pay closer attention to sites through which religious instruction is being disseminated. Topical and lucid, this book will be an important reading for scholars and researchers of sociology, religious studies, secularism, sociology of education, political sociology, South Asia studies, and education in general.
Religions, Beliefs and Education in the European Court of Human Rights: Investigating Judicial Pedagogies (Routledge Research in Religion and Education)
by Nigel FancourtThe Routledge Research in Religion and Education series aims at advancing public understanding and dialogue on issues at the intersections of religion and education. These issues emerge in various venues and proposals are invited from work in any such arena: public or private education at elementary, secondary, or higher education institutions; non-school or community organizations and settings; and formal or informal organizations or groups with religion or spirituality as an integral part of their work. Book proposals are invited from diverse methodological approaches and theoretical and ideological perspectives. This series does not address the work of formal religious institutions including churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples. Rather, it focuses on the beliefs and values arising from all traditions as they come into contact with educational work in the public square. Please send proposals to Mike Waggoner (mike.waggoner@uni.edu) and Alice Salt (alice.salt@tandf.co.uk).
Remarriage in Early Christianity
by A. Andrew DasWhat did early Christians believe about remarriage after divorce? The New Testament sends mixed messages about divorce. Jesus forbids it in Mark&’s and Luke&’s Gospels, but he seems to make an exception for victims of infidelity in Matthew&’s Gospel. Paul permits divorce in 1 Corinthians when an unbeliever initiates it. Yet other Pauline passages imply that remarriage after divorce constitutes adultery. A. Andrew Das confronts this dissonance in Remarriage in Early Christianity. Challenging scholarly consensus, Das argues that early Christians did not approve of remarriage after divorce. His argument—covering contemporary Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts, the Gospels, Paul&’s letters, and ante-Nicene interpretation—reveals greater consistency in early Christianity than is often assumed. Das pays special attention to the Greek words used in contemporary bills of divorce and in the New Testament, offering much-needed clarity on hotly contested concepts like porneia. At once sensitive and objective, Das finds an exegetically sound answer to the question of remarriage among early Christians. This bold study will challenge scholars and enlighten any Christian concerned with what Scripture has to say on this perennially relevant topic.
Representation, Inclusion and Social Justice in World Language Teaching: Research and Pedagogy for Inclusive Classrooms
by Lillie Padilla Rosti VanaThis volume introduces teaching methodologies for improving and incorporating representation, inclusion and social justice perspectives in the world language curriculum. Chapters present state-of-the-art research and cover many different language contexts, including French, Spanish, Mandarin, and Portuguese. Authors discuss difficult and hot topics, such as Critical Language Awareness, Critical Race Theory, non-binary language use in gendered languages, culturally sustaining curriculum, teaching heritage language speakers, and more. Ideal for graduate courses, students, and scholars in world language education, the volume offers new pathways and strategies for promoting diversity and equity in the classroom.
Representations of Language Learning and Literacy: How to Read Literacy Narratives (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
by Elena WestRepresentations of language learning and literacy, also known as “literacy narratives” are a staple of literature. They tell stories of conflict that illuminate the sociocultural dynamics whereby we learn to speak, read, and write. Yet, they tend to be read as stories about the “powers” of language and literacy – the power to make someone “human”, to form identity, and improve one’s social status. This book introduces the “literacy narrative approach”, a methodology for the study of literacy narratives that accounts for the conflict that pervades them. It achieves this by focussing on how the texts represent the interactions between writing and other semiotic modes (multimodality).Sitting at the interface between theory and practice, it provides three practical applications of the literacy narrative approach and, in the process, develops a theoretical perspective for thinking about language learning, literacy, and communication as they are practised in the real world.
Requirements Engineering: 30th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2024, Winterthur, Switzerland, April 8–11, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14588)
by Daniel Mendez Ana MoreiraThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2024, held in Winterthur, Switzerland, during April 8–12, 2024.The 14 full papers and 8 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: quality models for requirements engineering; quality requirements; explainability with and in requirements engineering; artificial intelligence for requirements engineering; natural language processing for requirements engineering; requirements engineering for artificial intelligence; crowd-based requirements engineering; and emerging topics and challenges in requirements engineering.
Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity With Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods
by Donna M. MertensIdentify, evaluate, and practice good research using Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity With Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods by renowned scholar Donna M. Mertens. This introductory research methods text incorporates the viewpoints of various research paradigms into its descriptions of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods as well as program evaluation. The work covers five major paradigms: post-positivist, constructivist, transformative, pragmatic, and Indigenous. Special emphasis on conducting research with culturally complex communities, based on the perspectives of feminists, ethnic/racial minorities, and people with disabilities is a hallmark of this text. In each chapter, the author carefully explains each step of the research process, from the literature review to analysis and reporting. Additionally, each chapter includes a published sample study and abstract to illustrate the concepts discussed in that chapter. The Sixth Edition includes more on community engagement, recent advances in mixed methods, new applications of theoretical frameworks, and the latest research examples. Citations and references have all been updated to reflect the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.
Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity With Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods
by Donna M. MertensIdentify, evaluate, and practice good research using Research and Evaluation in Education and Psychology: Integrating Diversity With Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods by renowned scholar Donna M. Mertens. This introductory research methods text incorporates the viewpoints of various research paradigms into its descriptions of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods as well as program evaluation. The work covers five major paradigms: post-positivist, constructivist, transformative, pragmatic, and Indigenous. Special emphasis on conducting research with culturally complex communities, based on the perspectives of feminists, ethnic/racial minorities, and people with disabilities is a hallmark of this text. In each chapter, the author carefully explains each step of the research process, from the literature review to analysis and reporting. Additionally, each chapter includes a published sample study and abstract to illustrate the concepts discussed in that chapter. The Sixth Edition includes more on community engagement, recent advances in mixed methods, new applications of theoretical frameworks, and the latest research examples. Citations and references have all been updated to reflect the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.