Creamer's practical and original approach enables students and researchers to feel confident when designing their own fully integrated mixed methods studies to answer their research questions.

Analyzing Inequalities: An Introduction to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Using the General Social Survey is a practical resource for helping students connect sociological issues with real-world data in the context of their first undergraduate sociology courses. This worktext introduces readers to the GSS, one of the most widely analyzed surveys in the U.S.; examines a range of GSS questions related to social inequalities; and demonstrates basic techniques for analyzing this data online...

This Second Edition helps students to practise organization development skills in unison with learning about theories of organizational change and human behaviour.

Patty McGee helps teachers transform student writers by demonstrating what to do to build tone, trust, motivation, and choice into daily lessons, conferences, and revision suggestions.

Education is evolving rapidly. To sustain change, school communities need broad support for shifts in teaching and learning that promise better outcomes for learners. This requires collaborative inquiry and hard conversations involving everyone with a stake in student success. Designed to promote and provoke conversations inside and outside schools, All Together Now will inspire educators and fellow stakeholders to embark on the challenging work ahead.

Readers will find a clear, four-part fra...

This applied text combines clear explanations of intermediate-level statistics with a rich set of exercises to develop students' skills in selecting, performing and evaluating statistical tests. Each exercise involves writing a brief abstract so that students can translate results into a cohesive and concise story about their data.

The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources, philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment" in social programs, and the general public is increasingly scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges. This text (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in its previous editions) is the only full-length book to p...

The Fourth Edition of The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment provides readers with the most up-to-date theory, research, and best practices in the field of child abuse and neglect.