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Method, Context, and Meaning in New Testament Studies

by C. Kavin Rowe

A masterful collection of essays in New Testament studies connecting Scripture, theology, and human life What is the purpose of studying the New Testament, and how is it best approached? Esteemed professor C. Kavin Rowe explores these questions in sixteen incisive essays covering a range of topics, including: • the state of New Testament studies as a field • the relationship between historical criticism and theological reading • interdisciplinary methodology • comparative religion and New Testament Christianity • truth claims of the New Testament What unites these diverse chapters is a holistic approach to the New Testament. Against the modern tendency to separate disciplines, Rowe unites philosophy, theology, history, and biblical studies in fruitful conversation. Most crucially, he emphasizes the essential purpose of this academic work: its implications for human flourishing. With an insightful and bold approach, Rowe&’s essays should be read by anyone interested in New Testament studies. Scholars and students will find the essays in this critical volume challenging and rewarding.

Methoden der Sozialen Arbeit für Dummies (Für Dummies)

by Martin Becker

Das Handwerkszeug für Fachkräfte Sozialer Arbeit Soziale Arbeit ist mehr als nur Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe – sie ist eine komplexe Wissenschaft, die Theorie und Praxis miteinander verbindet. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie, wie Sie die Methoden der Sozialen Arbeit in der Praxis effektiv anwenden können. Wie finden Sie die Interessen der Menschen in einem Stadtteil heraus? Wie gewinnen Sie das Vertrauen Ihrer Klienten und bewahren gleichzeitig den nötigen Abstand? Mit zahlreichen Beispielen aus dem Arbeitsalltag ist dieses Buch ein wertvoller Begleiter für alle, die sich für die Methoden Sozialer Arbeit interessieren. Sie erfahren Welchen Auftrag Fachkräfte Sozialer Arbeit haben Wie vielfältig die Methoden Sozialer Arbeit sind Wie Sie die passenden Methoden effektiv einsetzen Wie wirksam Soziale Arbeit sein kann

Methoden für die klinische Forschung und diagnostische Praxis

by Markus Pospeschill Rudolf Siegel

Dieses Buch richtet sich an im Beruf tätige Kliniker, Therapeuten und Diagnostiker, Studierende in den empirischen Humanwissenschaften, sowie an Doktoranden der Psychologie und Medizin. Es beschreibt und demonstriert: visuelle, deskriptive und inferenzstatistische Prüfverfahren der nicht-parametrischen Statistiksog. Permutations- und Randomisierungstests, die sich vor allem bei Untersuchungen an kleinen Personenstichproben oder Einzelfällen zur Analyse empirischer Daten anwenden lassenAuswertungsmethoden der psychometrischen Einzelfalldiagnostik und zur Analyse von Testprofilen gezeigt, die einen Rückschluss von Testdaten eines Einzelfalls im Vergleich zu Normdaten erlaubenVerfahren, mit denen sich Signifikanzaussagen aus einzelnen statistischen Analysen zu einer Gesamtaussage verknüpfen lassen. Für den wissenschaftlich fundierten Einsatz der Verfahren finden Sie einführend solche Untersuchungsformen und -designs, die zur validen statistischen Überprüfung von Interventionseffekten, von diagnostischen Hypothesen und von Effekten aus Einzelfallstudien geeignet sind.Als hilfreiche Besonderheit und zur praktischen Anwendung werden alle vorgestellten Methoden und Verfahren anhand konkreter Datenbeispiele in ihrer Anwendung erläutert. Die Auswertung wird mittels des Statistik-Softwarepaketes IBM SPSS Statistics und alternativ mit der freien Statistik-Software R demonstriert. Die dazu notwendigen Auswertungsskripte und Datensätze stehen für Sie als Online Zusatzmaterialien zur Verfügung. Sämtliche Skripte und Beispieldatensätze sind so beschaffen, dass sie sich mit geringem Aufwand auf Ihre eigenen Problemstellungen und Daten anwenden lassen.

Methoden in der Hochschullehre: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus der Praxis (Perspektiven der Hochschuldidaktik)

by Jörg Noller Christina Beitz-Radzio Daniela Kugelmann Sabrina Sontheimer Sören Westerholz

Im Zentrum des Bandes steht die Frage, welche Lehrmethoden im breiten Fächerspektrum der Hochschulen besonders geeignet sind. Zwar wird in der Hochschuldidaktik eine Vielzahl an Methoden für die Lehre vermittelt, doch stellt sich hier die Frage nach ihrer konkreten Umsetzung in der Praxis. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes identifizieren fachspezifische Herausforderungen und präsentieren Lehrmethoden, die sich als Antwort darauf im Lehralltag bewährt haben.Der InhaltEinleitung: Zur aktuellen Methodenentwicklung in der HochschullehreStudienbegleitende ProgrammeNaturwissenschaften, Mathematik und MedizinGeistes- und SozialwissenschaftenDigitale LehrmethodenDie HerausgebendenDr. Jörg Noller ist wissenschaftlicher Assistent an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München im Fach Philosophie. Er ist Tutorenausbilder und leitet verschiedene digitale Lehrprojekte.Dr. Christina Beitz-Radzio ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Studiendekanat der Tierärztlichen Fakultät der LMU. Sie ist unter anderem Tutorenausbilderin und Trainerin (sprachraum eG).Dr. Daniela Kugelmann ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Vegetative Anatomie der LMU München. Sie ist als Tutorenausbilderin für die fachlich- und methodisch-didaktische Ausbildung zuständig.Dr. Sabrina Sontheimer ist Lehrbeauftragte am Institut für Englische Philologie der LMU München und als freiberufliche Trainerin für Hochschuldidaktik, Kommunikation und wissenschaftliches Schreiben tätig. Dr. Sören Westerholz ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Physiologische Chemie der LMU München.

Methoden und Techniken in der systemisch-lösungsorientierten Beratung (essentials)

by Barbara Friehs Martin Gabriele

Was ist ein lösungsfokussiertes Kommunikationskonzept und welche Rolle spielt es in unserer Gesellschaft? Ist sie nur eine andere Form der Beratung oder doch etwas spezieller? Was machen eine gelungene Beratung und das dabei verwendete Konzept aus? Diesen und vielen anderen Fragen geht vorliegendes Buch nach. So werden auch Überlegungen zur Rolle, welche Beratung in bzw. für unsere Gesellschaft einnimmt, angestellt und besonders Techniken und Methoden der systemisch-lösungsorientierten Beratung einer genauen Betrachtung unterzogen.Zudem werden die Rolle des Beraters und der große Bereich der Kommunikation in der Beratung thematisiert.

Methodical Bible Study

by Robert A. Traina

This is an objective approach to Bible study that enables the reader to develop a consistent, step-by-step method that can be employed in the study of any scriptural passage.

Methodological Advances and Issues in Studying College Impact: New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 161 (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research)

by Serge Herzog Nicholas A. Bowman

Which curricular and cocurricular practices promote student learning and persistence? While most research and assessment on college student outcomes offers limited insight into causal effects, this volume provides strong evidence of the impact of college on students. The first section discusses statistical analyses that offer more accurate estimates of the causal effect of a particular student experience, such as receiving a need-based scholarship or using academic support services. Providing an overview of the analytical framework, it also includes real-world examples to illustrate implementation for institutional researchers. The second section includes original research to enhance the value of student surveys, including: • aspects of questionnaire design and techniques to cope with item nonresponse, • variation in respondent effort, • interpretation of student self-reported gains, and • practical insights to improve survey-based research. This is the 161st volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Timely and comprehensive, New Directions for Institutional Research provides planners and administrators in all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation, and institutional management.

Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement

by Board on International Comparative Studies in Education

In November 2000, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) held a symposium to draw on the wealth of experience gathered over a four--decade period, to evaluate improvement in the quality of the methodologies used in international studies, and to identify the most pressing methodological issues that remain to be solved. Since 1960, the United States has participated in 15 large--scale cross--national education surveys. The most assessed subjects have been science and mathematics through reading comprehension, geography, nonverbal reasoning, literature, French, English as a foreign language, civic education, history, computers in education, primary education, and second--language acquisition. The papers prepared for this symposium and discussions of those papers make up the volume, representing the most up--to--date and comprehensive assessment of methodological strengths and weaknesses of international comparative studies of student achievement. These papers answer the following questions: (1) What is the methodological quality of the most recent international surveys of student achievement? How authoritative are the results? (2) Has the methodological quality of international achievement studies improved over the past 40 years? and (3) What are promising opportunities for future improvement?

Methodological Advances in Educational Effectiveness Research (Quantitative Methodology Series)

by Leonidas Kyriakides Pam Sammons Bert P.M. Creemers

Methodological Advances in Educational Effectiveness Research is an important new work by some of the leading researchers in the field of Educational Effectiveness Research (EER). The book provides a state of the art snapshot of the methodology of EER now and clearly demonstrates the way it is applied in both research and evaluation. It shows how developments in the research methodology area such as the use of multilevel modelling approaches to analyse nested data have promoted the knowledge-base of educational effectiveness. But at the same time, as the authors show, the knowledge-base of educational effectiveness and the attempt to establish theoretical models do paradoxically challenge the development of methodologically appropriate studies including ways of analysing data. Guiding readers though the effective and appropriate use in educational effectiveness of: Longitudinal Studies Experimental Studies Mixed Research Methods Meta-analyses of effectiveness studies Using IRT to measure outcomes and factors Using Generalisability Theory to test the quality of data Multilevel modelling , and Structural Equation Modelling Techniques The authors draw in the expertise of scholars from around the world to show the mathematical background of each technique, the current and future applications, and Specific examples of applying this orientation to help the readers design their own effectiveness studies using specific methodological tools.

Methodological Advances in Research on Emotion and Education

by Michalinos Zembylas Paul A. Schutz

This volume presents different conceptual and theoreticalframeworks as well as research methods that have helped educational researchersto study emotions. It includes innovative approaches that push themethodological boundaries that have served educational researchers until nowand proposes new ways of researching emotions in educational contexts. In particular,this edited volume provides a historical frame for studying emotions. Itconnects theoretical/epistemological views with choice of research methods and describes specificmethods helpful in doing research on emotions as they are grounded in differenttheoretical and disciplinary traditions such as psychology, philosophy,sociology, history, political science, cultural studies, and feminist studies. Finally, it appreciates the contextual and international dimensions of studyingemotions in education and contributes to ongoing debates about the implicationsof our methodological choices for understanding emotion in education. Thiscombination of variety, timeliness, potential for transformation of the field,and uniqueness make this a very valuable resource to introduce new scholars inthe field alongside established scholars.

Methodological Choice and Design

by Lina Markauskaite Peter Freebody Jude Irwin

Beginning and well-seasoned researchers alike face significant challenges in understanding the complexities of research designs arising from both within and across methodological paradigms, and in applying them in ways that maximise impact on knowledge, practice, and policy. This volume engages educational and social researchers in a scholarly debate offering some crucial re-interpretations of established research methodologies in light of contemporary conditions and critical introduction to some contemporary research approaches yet to gain general recognition. This book is a contemporary vademecum for researchers, practitioners and graduate students on research methodologies and designs for educational and social change in today's world. The chapters chart and analyse the conceptual and practical complexities of a variety research designs for contemporary educational and social work research. This anthology, taken overall, provides readers with the knowledge and understanding needed not only to design technically sound and coherent research studies, but also to develop methodologically innovative research projects that cross the boundaries between different methodological traditions to the benefit of scholarship, policy, and practice. The chapters cover nine research approaches: - Design-based research - Action research - Ethnomethodological research - Negotiated ethnography - Arts-informed research - Historical analysis and postcolonial scholarship - Policy analysis - Comparative research - Quantitative modelling of correlational and multi-level data The book provides a critical discussion of epistemological questions and methodological frontiers: - Knowledge and epistemology in scholarship, practice and policy - Digital knowledge and digital research - Emerging methodological challenges for educational research - Challenges and futures for social work and social policy research methods - Methodology and the knowledge industry

Methodological Issues in Psychology: Concept, Method, and Measurement

by David Trafimow

Methodological Issues in Psychology is a comprehensive text that challenges current practice in the discipline and provides solutions that are more useful in contemporary research, both basic and applied. This book begins by equipping the readers with the underlying foundation pertaining to basic philosophical issues addressing theory verification or falsification, distinguishing different levels of theorizing, or hypothesizing, and the assumptions necessary to negotiate between these levels. It goes on to specifically focus on statistical and inferential hypotheses including chapters on how to dramatically improve statistical and inferential practices and how to address the replication crisis. Advances to be featured include the author's own inventions, the a priori procedure and gain-probability diagrams, and a chapter about mediation analyses, which explains why such analyses are much weaker than typically assumed. The book also provides an introductory chapter on classical measurement theory and expands to new concepts in subsequent chapters. The final measurement chapter addresses the ubiquitous problem of small effect sizes in psychology and provides recommendations that directly contradict typical thinking and teaching in psychology, but with the consequence that researchers can enjoy dramatically improved effect sizes. Methodological Issues in Psychology is an invaluable asset for students and researchers of psychology. It will also be of vital interest to social science researchers and students in areas such as management, marketing, sociology, and experimental philosophy.

Methodological Musings: Thinking with Narrative in Music Education Research (Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education #37)

by Kari Holdhus Tiri Bergesen Schei Amira Ehrlich

This book focuses on narrative forms of research and inquiry in music education. As narrative approaches gain momentum, questions of methodology become salient. This research anthology highlights a diverse array of narrative methodologies and offers strategies for new researchers. The authors reflect transparently on how they did their narrative analyses, how they position themselves, and which narrative tradition(s) they align with. In this book, editors and authors aim at conceptualizing and clarifying narrative approaches in music education, showing how narrative thinking can be combined with theoretical stances such as discourse analysis and phenomenology. The book demonstrates how awareness of multi-layered dialogical meaning production can inform narrative research. It also addresses performative narratives of musicians and educators. The authors forefront narrative research methods as highly valuable for arts-based research, because of their potential for being expressive and performative, as well as conceptual.

Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning

by Rosella Gennari Pierpaolo Vittorini Tania Di Mascio Sara Rodríguez Fernando De la Prieta Carlos Ramos Ricardo Azambuja Silveira

This book presents the outcomes of the 7th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL'17), hosted by the Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal from 21 to 23 June 2017. Expanding on the topics of the previous conferences, it provided an open forum for discussing intelligent systems for technology enhanced learning (TEL) and their roots in novel learning theories, empirical methodologies for their design or evaluation, stand-alone and web-based solutions, and makerspaces. It also fostered entrepreneurship and business startup ideas, bringing together researchers and developers from industry, education and the academic world to report on the latest scientific research, technical advances and methodologies.

Methodologies of Mediation in Professional Learning

by Lily Orland-Barak Ditza Maskit

This book critically explores the use of nine recognized methodologies for the mediation of professional learning in the context of teacher education: The story, the visual text, the case, the video, the simulation, the portfolio, lesson study, action research, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Drawing on theories of mediation and professional learning, the book establishes connections between theoretical, empirical and practical-based aspects of each of these methodologies. It consolidates a body of knowledge that offers a holistic portrayal of these methodologies in terms of their purposes (what for), processes (how), and outcomes (what), both distinctively and inclusively. Each chapter offers four perspectives on each methodology (1) theoretical groundings of the genre (2) research-based evidence on methodologies-as-pedagogies for mediating teacher learning (3) mediation tasks for teacher education as reported in studies and (4) a synthesis of recurrent themes identified from selected books and articles, including a comprehensive list of publications organized by decades. The last chapter presents an integrative framework that conceptualizes connections and weak links across the different methodologies of mediation.

Methodology for Early Childhood Education and Care Research: Premises and Principles of Scientific Knowledge Building (SpringerBriefs in Education)

by Niklas Pramling

This book concisely explores the distinguishing features of scientific knowledge and research in early childhood education and care (ECEC). It has a dual-level focus of containing and relating the concrete practices of conducting research with the more fundamental conceptual discussions around research – the Bildung of the researcher.The book introduces and succinctly explains the concepts of methodology, theoretical knowledge about method, and how all parts of conducting research are informed by theory. The interrelation of these concepts, and many premises of research, are often regarded as assumed knowledge. In this book, premises of research are explicated and discussed, as well as methods on how to engage in informed dialogue.This introductory text explicates many features of scientific knowing and knowledge building in ECEC that tend to be presumed rather than clarified. It will be important in furthering the professional development of PhD students, Master’s students, supervisors, and researchers.

Methodology for Multilevel Modeling in Educational Research: Concepts and Applications

by Myint Swe Khine

This edited volume documents attempts to conduct systematic and prodigious research using multilevel analysis in educational settings, and present their findings and identify future research directions. It showcases the versatility of multilevel analysis, and elucidates the unique advantages in examining complex and wide-ranging educational issues. This book brings together leading experts around the world to share their works in the field, highlighting recent advances, creative and unique approaches, and innovative methods using multilevel modeling and theoretical and practical aspects of multilevel analysis in culturally and linguistically-diverse educational contexts.

Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals: Example Studies and Theoretical Elaboration (International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development #38)

by Niklas Pramling Eva Brooks Elin Eriksen Ødegaard Cecilia Wallerstedt

This open access book addresses the growing trend in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) research named collaborative knowledge building in which researchers and ECEC personnel collaborate. This kind of research encompasses a number of approaches, such as design studies, action studies, Learning Studies, Lesson Studies, and combined research and development studies. There are important differences between these approaches, but they also share some features, which makes it possible to see them as examples of a particular tradition of knowledge building. Collaborative knowledge building constitutes close ties between developing practices of early childhood education and care, and generating empirically grounded theoretical knowledge. This book contributes to the methodology of practices-developing research by mapping this movement through exemplifying themes actualised in such studies, and through conceptualizing important and recurring gains and challenges. It also describes how the latter can be taken on.

Methods Analyst: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)

by National Learning Corporation

The Methods Analyst Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: Administrative analyst; Supervision; Understanding and interpreting written material; and more.

Methods For Effective Teaching: Meeting The Needs Of All Students

by Paul R. Burden David M. Byrd

The sixth edition of Methods for Effective Teaching provides the most current research-based coverage of teaching methods for K-12 classrooms on the market today. In a straightforward, user-friendly tone, the expert author team writes to prepare current and future educators to be effective in meeting the needs of all the students they teach. In this new edition, all content is carefully aligned to professional standards, including the recently revised InTASC standards. Uniquely emphasizing today's contemporary issues, such as both teacher-centered and student-centered strategies; a myriad of ways to differentiate instruction, promote student thinking, and actively engage students in learning; approaches for teaching English language learners, and an added emphasis on culturally responsive teaching, this highly-regarded textbook is the perfect combination of sound teaching methods and cutting edge content.

Methods Of Argument: An Anthology Of Readings

by Deborah Holdstein Danielle Aquiline

"This reader is designed to support Composition II courses focused on methods and techniques of argument. The selections will model an array of critical thinking as well as argumentative writing techniques by which one can argue a single point of view and also more complex, mixed forms of argumentation. The goal will always be to model how a student may respond, in writing and discussion, with an accountable, well-supported viewpoint. In a current climate of 'fake news' and 'alternative facts,' this reader provides a timely and compelling context in which to offer students opportunities to craft reasoned arguments with evidence. Selections will be framed by an introduction featuring a narrative on analyzing and writing arguments, the importance of accountability (including challenging others' less-than-compelling arguments), and information on the reading and writing process. Selections themselves will comprise both classic and contemporary sources and be diverse in origin, genre, and topic"--

Methods Of Teaching

by P.N. Lakshmi Shanmugam

This book “METHODS OF TEACHING “ covers various methods of teaching in Physical Science as creative and engaging as possible. Students get the most out of their learning when it is exciting and this book offers great ideas for classroom practice, which are carefully linked to research. It helps the students in achieving higher teaching competence through microteaching. It becomes a key for unlocking new perspectives in the process of training. Various methods of teaching like lecture, lecture cum demonstration, project, seminar, team teaching and scientific method help the teachers to teach lessons in real conditions. Illustrations from physical science is the most influential innovation to teachers for improving effectiveness of the existing teaching skill.

Methods That Matter: Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research

by M. Cameron Hay

To do research that really makes a difference--the authors of this book argue--social scientists need questions and methods that reflect the complexity of the world. Bringing together a consortium of voices across a variety of fields, Methods that Matter offers compelling and successful examples of mixed methods research that do just that. In case after case, the researchers here break out of the traditional methodological silos that have long separated social science disciplines in order to better describe the intricacies of our personal and social worlds. Historically, the largest division between social science methods has been that between quantitative and qualitative measures. For people trained in psychology or sociology, the bias has been toward the former, using surveys and experiments that yield readily comparable numerical results. For people trained in anthropology, it has been toward the latter, using ethnographic observations and interviews that offer richer nuances of meaning but are difficult to compare across societies. Discussing their own endeavors to combine the quantitative with the qualitative, the authors invite readers into a conversation about the best designs and practices of mixed methodologies to stimulate creative ideas and find new pathways of insight. The result is an engaging exploration of a promising new approach to the social sciences.

Methods and Interdisciplinarity

by Roger Waldeck

Interdisciplinarity research results from a growing need for multi-perspective methods, and knowledge on complex and multifaceted objects of study. It is not simply scientific research that involves several disciplines, but ultimately, the aim is confronting this knowledge and – if possible – articulating it coherently. Using specific examples, Methods and Interdisciplinarity categorizes the different modes of interdisciplinarity and discusses the mechanisms of hybridization between them. On the one hand, the book shows how the same issue can be treated according to various points of view from several disciplines, which can give rise to complementary or even contradictory knowledge. On the other hand, it illustrates how methods from some disciplines make it possible to articulate the qualitative or quantitative approaches of others.

Methods and Materials for Teaching the Gifted

by Frances A. Karnes M. Bean Suzanne

For teachers at the elementary and secondary levels, this guide outlines strategies for teaching gifted learners. Karnes (curriculum, instruction, and special education, U. of Southern Mississippi) and Bean (education, Mississippi U. for Women) bring together 23 chapters that cover the characteristics and needs of gifted learners, curricular design, process skills development, instructional units, evaluating outcomes, supporting and enhancing gifted programs, and practices such as problem-based learning, creative teaching strategies, independent study, mentorships, and classroom simulations. Chapter authors are scholars, researchers, and consultants in gifted education in the US. In addition to being revised and expanded, this edition includes teacher statements and discussion questions in each chapter. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)

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