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E-Learning im Lehralltag: Analyse der Adoption von E-Learning-Innovationen in der Hochschullehre
by Helge FischerAusgelöst durch sich wandelnde Anforderungen von Studierenden und Öffentlichkeit sowie veränderte politische und ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen wächst der Reformdruck auf Hochschulen. Die Einführung technologiegestützter Lehr- und Lernmethoden (E-Learning) erlaubt den Hochschulakteuren die Flankierung dieser Neuordnungen und zusätzliche strategische Positionierung. Ausgangspunkt von E-Learning-Einführungs- und Förderstrategien sind die individuellen Anforderungen und Bedarfe des akademischen Lehrpersonals. Die Dissertation liefert die Grundlagen für die zielgruppenspezifische Förderung der E-Learning-Nutzung in der Hochschullehre. Dafür wird einerseits ein Bezugsrahmen hergeleitet, der den Prozess der E-Learning-Adoption strukturiert und Ansatzpunkte für Interventionen deutlich macht. Zudem wurden anhand einer explorativen Studie E-Learning-Übernehmertypen innerhalb des akademischen Lehrpersonals identifiziert und charakterisiert.
E-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice (Routledge Advances in Research Methods)
by Nicholas W. JankowskiNo less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many suggest that the very essence of scholarship in these areas is changing. The everyday procedures and practices of traditional forms of scholarship are affected by these and other features of e-research. This volume, which features renowned scholars from across the globe who are active in the social sciences and humanities, provides critical reflection on the overall emergence of e-research, particularly on its adoption and adaptation by the social sciences and humanities.
E-topia: Urban Life, Jim--But Not As We Know It
by William J. MitchellThe global digital network is not just a delivery system for email, Web pages, and digital television. It is a whole new urban infrastructure--one that will change the forms of our cities as dramatically as railroads, highways, electric power supply, and telephone networks did in the past. Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitchell argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and interconnection by means of telecommunication links as well as by pedestrian circulation and mechanized transportation systems. He proposes strategies for the creation of cities that not only will be sustainable but will make economic, social, and cultural sense in an electronically interconnected and global world. The new settlement patterns of the twenty-first century will be characterized by live/work dwellings, 24-hour pedestrian-scale neighborhoods rich in social relationships, and vigorous local community life, complemented by far-flung configurations of electronic meeting places and decentralized production, marketing, and distribution systems. Neither digiphile nor digiphobe, Mitchell advocates the creation of e-topias--cities that work smarter, not harder.
ECML PKDD 2018 Workshops: MIDAS 2018 and PAP 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10-14, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11054)
by Guido Caldarelli Tiziano Squartini Riccardo Guidotti Anna Monreale Carlos Alzate Livio Bioglio Valerio Bitetta Ilaria Bordino Andrea Ferretti Francesco Gullo Stefano Pascolutti Ruggero G. Pensa Celine RobardetThis book constitutes revised selected papers from two workshops held at the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2018, in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2018, namely: MIDAS 2018 – Third Workshop on Mining Data for Financial Applications andPAP 2018 – Second International Workshop on Personal Analytics and Privacy. The 12 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 17 submissions.
ECML PKDD 2020 Workshops: Workshops of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2020): SoGood 2020, PDFL 2020, MLCS 2020, NFMCP 2020, DINA 2020, EDML 2020, XKDD 2020 and INRA 2020, Ghent, Belgium, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1323)
by Peter Christen Annalisa Appice Donato Malerba Michelangelo Ceci Corrado Loglisci Giuseppe Manco Elio Masciari Zbigniew W. Ras Erich Schubert João Gama Riccardo Guidotti Anna Monreale Pedro M. Ferreira Ricard Gavaldà Michael Kamp Yamuna Krishnamurthy Rita P. Ribeiro Albrecht Zimmermann Jon Atle Gulla Arthur Zimek Przemyslaw Biecek Irena Koprinska Luiza Antonie Özlem Özgöbek Linara Adilova Ibéria Medeiros Eirini Ntoutsi Salvatore Rinzivillo Benjamin Kille Andreas LommatzschThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 20th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online. The 43 papers presented in volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: 5th Workshop on Data Science for Social Good, SoGood 2020; Workshop on Parallel, Distributed and Federated Learning, PDFL 2020; Second Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity, MLCS 2020, 9th International Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns, NFMCP 2020, Workshop on Data Integration and Applications, DINA 2020, Second Workshop on Evaluation and Experimental Design in Data Mining and Machine Learning, EDML 2020, Second International Workshop on eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining, XKDD 2020; 8th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics, INRA 2020. The papers from INRA 2020 are published open access and licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
ECONOMIA DEL PERONISMO, LA (EBOOK)
by Marcelo RougierEl período peronista se ha considerado hasta hoy una etapa decisiva en la historia política y social argentina. Desde el punto de vista de la economía, se lo ha visto como un punto de inflexión que habría modificado de manera cardinal las relaciones sociales dando origen a una industrialización pujante y a la emergencia, junto a una clase obrera consciente de sus potencialidades, de una burguesía comprometida con el desarrollo nacional. La industria y los derechos de los trabajadores habrían sido los ejes centrales de un proceso conducido por el Estado que habría dejado atrás el modelo agroexportador. Este libro se propone cuestionar ese imaginario e indagar cuánto hay de cierto y cuánto de mito en él. Con lucidez y valentía Rougier demuestra que entre 1944 y 1955 no hubo una política económica autónoma ni una estrategia de desarrollo a largo plazo. Si bien se registró una primera etapa de crecimiento industrial y expansión, la economía del peronismo quedó encerrada en la redistribución de ingresos sin modificar la estructura de la propiedad. Sus cuentas pendientes, como la escasa integración del sector manufacturero y la subordinación a las exportaciones
ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement and the AfCFTA in West Africa: Costs, Benefits and Challenges
by Olusola Ogunnubi Samuel Kehinde OkunadeThis book discusses the phenomenon of regional integration in Africa and the ensuing discourse on the intercontinental free trade agreement within the continent. Long before the move for the facilitation of free trade in Africa, freedom of movement by Africans within Africa backed up by the AU Protocol on free movement of persons has been in existence and in one way or the other both moves are closely related. The book explores the existing relationships between the ECOWAS Protocol on free movement, goods and services and AfCFTA on one hand and the impact of the implementation and non-implementation of these policies on West Africa on the other hand.
ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus
by George Angelos Papadopoulos Maria Antonietta Grasso Luigina Ciolfi Olav W. BertelsenThis volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2013, the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Each conference offers an occasion to critically review our research field, which has been multidisciplinary and committed to high scientific standards, both theoretical and methodological, from its beginning. The papers this year focus on work and the enterprise as well as on the challenges of involving citizens, patients, etc. into collaborative settings. The papers embrace new theories, and discuss known ones. They contribute to the discussions on the blurring boundaries between home and work and on the ways we think about and study work. They introduce recent and emergent technologies, and study known social and collaborative technologies. With contributions from all over the world, the papers in interesting ways help focus on the European perspective in our community. The 15 papers selected for this conference deal with and reflect the lively debate currently ongoing in our field of research.
ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway
by Tone Bratteteig Pernille Bjørn Nina Boulus-Rødje Gunnar Ellingsen Margunn AanestadThis volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2015, the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, organized by the University of Oslo, Norway. The conference provides a venue for exploring novel, open and critical approaches to the multidisciplinary nature of social and collaborative technologies and work practices, critically reviewing new and established theories and research, forever committed to high scientific standards, both theoretical and methodological. These proceedings consist of 14 full and 3 exploratory papers, which reflect the lively debate currently ongoing within the CSCW field, focusing on work and enterprise and the challenges of involving various types of people like citizens, patients and software developers into collaborative settings. The blurring boundaries between home and work are explored and recent and emergent new technologies supporting collaborative work are introduced. With contributions from all over the world, the chapters provide interesting perspectives, helping to focus the European perspective within the CSCW community. This collection will be of interest to researchers and practitioners alike as it combines an understanding of the nature of technology within both the workplace and wider society
EEO Law and Personnel Practices
by Arthur Gutman Laura L. Koppes Stephen J. VodanovichThe goal of this well known book is to provide methods for understanding major EEO laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, and the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. Also included are over 700 cases involving federal case law that focus on issues relating to the terms and conditions of employment. New to this t
EFL Pedagogy as Cultural Discourse: Textbooks, Practice, and Policy for Arabs and Jews in Israel
by Muzna Awayed-BisharaThis book offers unique insight into the role that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) discourse plays in shaping the ideological terrain of contemporary Israel/Palestine through constructing the subjectivities of those who plan, teach, and learn it. While the EFL curriculum is uniform across Hebrew and Arabic-speaking educational contexts, this book traces how its cultural content reproduces dominant hegemonic ideologies, and perpetuates the social misrepresentations of the Other that underlie inequality. The language of English teaching textbooks, the way that students understand their content, and the official policy documents that guide both EFL materials and teaching practices, are all thoroughly examined through Critical Discourse Analysis. The theoretical and methodological foundation for further cross-cultural studies of Anglo-centric and other forms of hegemonic EFL discourses within local/global contexts, and for contesting their ideological effects, are also laid down. Through promoting a transformative EFL cultural discourse which hopes to position EFL teaching as a possible arena for effecting social change, this book offers a unique context for students, scholars, and educators interested in linguistics, CDA, cultural discourse studies, English in local/global contexts, and EFL education.
EIL Education for the Expanding Circle: A Japanese Model (Routledge Studies in World Englishes)
by Nobuyuki HinoThe teaching of English in the Expanding Circle, traditionally called EFL countries, has long been regarded as having no choice but to follow Inner Circle or Anglo-American norms, both in pedagogy and language models. This situation is in sharp contrast with that of the Outer Circle, or ESL countries, where the WE (World Englishes) paradigm, coupled with post-colonialism, has liberated the users of indigenous Englishes from the norms of Anglophone native speakers. Employing. Japan as a primary sample, this book proposes a new paradigm of EIL (English as an International Language) education, by integrating relevant paradigms such as WE and ELF (English as a Lingua Franca), which enables users of English from the Expanding Circle to represent their own voices in international communication.. Various examples of actual classroom practice in EIL are also presented, bridging the longstanding gap between theory and practice in this field.
EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment
by Ricky GreenwaldA practical guide to learning and using EMDR Trauma is a potential source of most types of emotional or behavioral problems. Extensive research has shown EMDR to be an effective and efficient trauma treatment. EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment offers mental health professionals an accessible plain-language guide to this popular and successful method. The book also introduces the "Fairy Tale Model" as a way to understand and remember the essential phases of treatment and the tasks in each phase. This manual teaches a clear rationale and a systematic approach to trauma-informed treatment, including often-neglected elements of treatment that are essential to preparing clients for EMDR. The reader is led step by step through the treatment process, with scripted hands-on exercises to learn each skill. In addition to presenting the fundamental EMDR procedures, EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment teaches a treatment system that can be applied to a variety of cases. Using research-supported and proven-effective methods, this book takes you through the treatment process with easily-understood dialogues and examples. Explicitly guided exercises produce hands-on skills and familiarize you with ways to explain trauma to clients and prepare them for EMDR. You will also learn to problem-solve challenging cases using the trauma framework. EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment also includes an Instructor&’s Manual with: sample syllabus teaching tips PowerPoint slides test bank.Additional discussions address: why trauma matters posttraumatic symptoms the "trauma wall" the structure of trauma treatment the role of EMDR the eight phases of EMDR preparing clients for EMDR legal and medical issues in EMDR problem solving strategies in EMDR sessions treatment strategies for a variety of presenting problems using EMDR with children and adolescents use and application of the "fairy tale model" on-line and digital resourcesDesigned to be a comprehensive primer, companion/supplemental textbook, and valuable reference resource, EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment is ideal for clinicians already trained in EMDR, those actively learning EMDR, and mental health professionals interested in EMDR. Note that to practice EMDR requires formal supervised training.
ESTADIO OBRAS (EBOOK)
by Gloria I. GuerreroMientras la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos de la OEA llegaba a la Argentina y se encontraba con la sarcástica campaña #Somos derechos y humanos#, la plata dulce y el #deme dos# de Martínez de Hoz iban a la par de una inflación galopante y la represión resultaba insostenible, el rock argentino agradecía la inesperada bendición de un nuevo estadio en Núñez. Por fin había un lugar donde reunirse. Y de a miles. Era una cancha de básquet, sí, pero terminó siendo un escenario que trascendió sus dimensiones físicas: se convirtió en mito. El Estadio Obras se inauguró a fines de 1978 y durante 31 años fue el Templo, nuestra casa. El rock caminó sus pasillos, y descansó y bebió en sus camarines. De Seru Giran a Soda Stereo, de los Redondos a Spinetta, de Sumo a Divididos, Gieco o Calamaro: el Primer Obras de un artista significó, siempre, infinitamente más que un concierto. Gloria Guerrero reconstruye la vida de este Templo con mano de orfebre y corazón de protagonista, contándola desde adentro. Músicos, empleados, fans, todos colaboran para crear un fresco increíble que retrata la historia del rock en la Argentina como nadie lo había logrado hasta ahora. Porque eso fue Obras: el lugar donde el rock se convertía en Historia. Ni más ni menos.
EU Integrated Urban Initiatives: Policy Learning and Quality of Life Impacts in Spain
by Clemente J. Navarro Yáñez María Jesús Rodríguez-García María José Guerrero-MayoThis open access book presents a unique interdiscplinary analysis of urban projects promoted by the EU from a comparative perspective This book presents cross-sectional and cross-time analyses at the territorial level targeted by these initiatives focusing on the design, theory and impacts of urban projects developed under the framework of initiatives promoted by the European Union. The book includes a new methodology to analyse the design and theory of urban plans (the comparative urban portfolio analysis) and quasi-experimental strategies to perform impact assessment at the neighbourhood level (the territorial target of those initiatives). Although empirical analyses focus on examples in Spain, the resulting analytical and methodological outcomes of these studies can be applied in a broader context to analyse integral urban policies in other countries.
EU Regional and Urban Policy: Innovations and Experiences from the 2014–2020 Programming Period (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Valeria Fedeli Camilla Lenzi Paola Briata Luisa PedrazziniThe book critically reflects on some of the most important novelties and experimentations in the context of the European Union’s renewed urban and regional policy in the last programming period, 2014-2020. In particular, it examines four main innovations characterizing this period, which emerged as a result of the deep rethinking and reorganization of Cohesion Policy in the spirit of the place-based approach to local development, i.e. the development of the smart specialization strategy, the establishment of macro-regions, the focus on the urban dimension as a horizontal priority, and the role of social innovation in urban policy. Unlike other similar books, it analyzes the urban dimension of the reformed EU cohesion policy, especially focusing on its interplay with the regional dimension, and which has not been fully addressed to date. The book is intended for social scientists engaged in research on European issues, especially from regional and urban perspectives, policy-makers, particularly at the local level, and graduate students interested in regional and urban European matters.
EU Social Inclusion Policies in Post-Socialist Countries: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Perspectives on Implementation (Studies in European Sociology)
by Ingrid Fylling Elena Loreni Baciu Janne Irén BreimoThe fact that post-socialist EU countries are struggling with implementation of EU's social inclusion policy is well known. But why is that so? Are the problems solely connected to how inclusion policies are enforced, or could it just as likely be the way policies are designed that creates challenges? This book explores experiences with inclusion policy implementation in seven different post-socialist EU countries. It focuses particularly on two groups of people in constant danger of social exclusion: People with Roma background and people with disabilities. So far, researchers have studied these issues primarily through policy analysis, and thus not provided knowledge on what actually happens in local contexts where welfare services are produced. This book sheds light on implementation processes at different levels, both on the policy level and in local welfare production. The picture painted here is one of complex and conflicting considerations in inclusion policy implementation, between historical and cultural heritage from the communist period, and EU inclusion policy based on Western European political principles. This book will appeal to undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as postdoctoral students in social science, disability studies, educational science and others. The book will also be useful for researchers and others interested in the development of inclusion policies and EU integration issues.
EU-Interessenvertretung und Informalität: Eine qualitativ-empirische Analyse anhand der Nachhaltigkeitsgesetzgebung der EU-Biokraftstoffpolitik
by Julia LevasierDas vorliegende Buch über politische Interessenvertretung behandelt anhand einer Fallstudie an der Schnittstelle zwischen EU-Verkehrs-, Klima- und Energiepolitik eine Forschungslücke der Kommunikationswissenschaft: Es wird untersucht, welche Bedeutung Informalität in der fachpolitischen EU-Interessenvertretung zukommt. Informalität wird sowohl in der öffentlichen Debatte als auch in der einschlägigen akademischen Diskussion als konstitutive Bedingung von Interessenvertretung angenommen und als funktionsspezifische Handlungs- bzw. kommunikative Sphäre vorausgesetzt. Als kommunikativer Wirkmechanismus im Lobbying-Kontext wurde Informalität bislang nicht untersucht. Die Innovation der Arbeit besteht zudem darin, dass nicht nur die Akteure der Interessenvertretung und deren Strategien zur Einflussnahme auf politische Akteure, sondern auch die sog. Outside-Dimension der Interessenvertretung betrachtet wird. Diese bezieht journalistische Akteure und die speziell auf sie abzielenden Steuerungsversuche von Interessenvertreter*innen mit in die Analyse ein.
EU-MERCOSUR Interregionalism: Diplomatic and Trade Relations (United Nations University Series on Regionalism #21)
by Mario Torres Jarrín Lourdes Gabriela Daza AramayoThis book focuses on EU-MERCOSUR relations from a diplomatic and trade perspective against the background of the political agreement between the two in 2019. The authors take into consideration that EU-MERCOSUR cooperation developed during recent decades has tried, on the one hand, to build a strategic partnership to respond to the main challenges of international agendas and, on the other, to incorporate in Latin American countries the European new vision of transatlantic regionalism. Starting from a historical perspective of the development of interregionalism between the EU and MERCOSUR, the book goes on to study the geopolitical impacts of Brexit, stagnation of the EU-USA relationship, the COVID-19 pandemic, and of new geopolitical players in EU-LAC interregionalism. It discusses the legal institutional framework of the EU-MERCOSUR relations and provides a comparative view of features of MERCOSUR countries vis-à-vis the European Union. The book also analyses and provides a comprehensive overview of various aspects of interregional trade in the context of the 2019 agreement. Highly topical and authored by experts in this field, this book is of interest to a wide readership in the social sciences and economics: from political sociology to international relations, diplomacy studies and international trade.
EVERDAY LAW FOR CHILDREN (Q)
by David J. HerringEveryday Law for Children provides an accessible introduction to laws that affect children and families and the dominant public debates that surround and drive these laws. Using real-world examples, the book exposes the tension between reliance on the private, autonomous family and the public's desire to secure child well-being. A look at some public systems, such as child welfare and juvenile delinquency, shows that an initial public aspiration to assist children and families is often frustrated by a lack of resolve and resources. In other areas, such as education and healthcare, the public shrinks from a commitment to comprehensive child well-being. Everyday Law for Children makes a case for the improvement of public systems by focusing on pragmatic goals related to child well-being. More immediately, it makes a case for zealous advocates for children who can have a dramatic impact on children's everyday lives. Accordingly, the book provides an annotated list of resources and contact information for parents and for service providers who need help addressing specific problems within complex public systems.
Early Adulthood in a Family Context
by Alan Booth Nancy S Landale Susan M Mchale Wendy D. Manning Susan L. BrownEarly Adulthood in a Family Context, based on the 18th annual National Symposium on Family Issues, emphasizes the importance of both the family of origin and new and highly variable types of family formation experiences that occur in early adulthood. This volume showcases new theoretical, methodological, and measurement insights in hopes of advancing understanding of the influence of the family of origin on young adults' lives. Both family resources and constraints with respect to economic, social, and human capital are considered.
Early Black Thinkers in the Diaspora and Their Conceptualizations of Africa
by Abdul Karim BanguraThis book argues that just as the ideas of Pan-Africanism birthed by Henry Sylvester-Williams and others in the late 1800s and Negritude ushered by Aimé Césaire and others in the early 1900s emboldened many major Black thinkers to push for independence across Africa, so will these early thinkers’ ideas help in the building of a new Africa. The various chapters explore the proposition that the thoughts of early great Diaspora Black thinkers are still wellsprings of tenets that can be used to build a new Africa. The chapters examine how these thinkers conceptualized Africa in their works, with the main objective of delineating their conceptualizations to generate suggestions on how to build a new Africa.
Early Brazil
by Clive Willis"Early Brazil presents a collection of original sources, many published for the first time in English and some never before published in any language, that illustrates the process of conquest, colonization, and settlement in Brazil. The volume emphasizes the actions and interactions of the indigenous peoples, Portuguese, and Africans in the formation of the first extensive plantation colony based on slavery in the Americas, and it also includes documents that reveal the political, social, religious, and economic life of the colony. Original documents on early Brazilian history are difficult to find in English, and this collection will serve the interests of undergraduate students, as well as graduate students, who seek to make comparisons or to understand the history of Portuguese expansion"--
Early Child Care: The New Perspectives
by Stuart PiggottEarly Child Care is about the very young child--infant, toddler, and early preschool--in today's world. It grew out of a series of conferences sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Children's Hospital of Washington, D.C., and the Committee on Day Care of the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association. Each of the sponsoring agencies represents a focal point for pressures from groups concerned with improving the care of the young child. Faced with common concern, the three sponsoring agencies brought together a number of experts in the field to pool information and experience and to review research findings as a basis for sound planning for children less than three years of age.The authors included in Early Child Care are pioneers in the true sense of the word.. Until recently, no one has tried to specify exactly what goes on between mother and her baby, who does what to whom in the exchange, and what happens if, instead of one mother, there is no mother, an alternating day and night mother, or many different substitutes for the mother. Until all that transpires between the mother and her baby in the best of circumstances is comprehended in sufficient detail that it can be confidently reproduced, it is impossible to make alternative plans. Early Child Care is an effort to identify what is known about young children and apply it to day-by-day programming.Millions of mothers give their babies a good start, providing devoted and painstaking care. Such mothers somehow know when a child needs to be let alone--and when to respond. This volume attempts to define how such instincts can be reproduced in other settings.
Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What, And How
by National Research Council of the National AcademiesThe assessment of young children’s development and learning has recently taken on new importance. Private and government organizations are developing programs to enhance the school readiness of all young children,especially children from economically disadvantaged homes and communities and children with special needs. Well-planned and effective assessment can inform teaching and program improvement,and contribute to better outcomes for children. This book affirms that assessments can make crucial contributions to the improvement of children’s well-being,but only if they are well designed,implemented effectively,developed in the context of systematic planning,and are interpreted and used appropriately. Otherwise,assessment of children and programs can have negative consequences for both. The value of assessments therefore requires fundamental attention to their purpose and the design of the larger systems in which they are used. Early Childhood Assessment addresses these issues by identifying the important outcomes for children from birth to age 5 and the quality and purposes of different techniques and instruments for developmental assessments.