Childhood and after;: Some essays and clinical studies

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Susan Sutherland Isaacs

Psychology & Counseling

Agathon Press

Supporting the learning teacher: A source book for teacher centers

Unknown, Author

The motivating thesis of this book is that political opinions and behavior of individuals cannot be explained apart from the environments within which they occur. Individual characteristics alone do not determine political actions and opinions. Rather, political behavior must be understood in terms of the actor's relationship to the environment, and the environmental factors that impinge on individual choice.

Politics in Context: Assimilation and Conflict in Urban Neighborhoods

Politics & Social Sciences

R. Robert Huckfeldt

Social Sciences

Adventures with Children in the Early School Years was written to give parents and educators a lively and accurate picture of what good nursery and kindergarten experiences might provide for young children. There is really no such thing as “pre-school”, as children two years old to six are at a crucial learning phase already.  With its focus on the needs of young children, the book has been chosen by Directors of many Head Start and full-day programs and as a guide for private day-care centers.  Very different learning experiences are appropriate for children aged two, four or six. Many experienced teachers have contributed observations about how children learn from active, first-hand sensory experiences, to help teachers in training explore attitudes and activities that contribute toward the child’s healthy development.

Adventures with Children: In the Early School Years

Swan, Arthur

Barnouw, Elsa

Education & Teaching

This distinguished study bridges the gulf in the literature on the Constitutional Convention between those analysts who stress the influence of philosophical principles and those who stress the influence of political and economic interests.

Constitution Making: Conflict and Consensus in the Federal Convention of 1787

Calvin C. Jillson

Constitutional Law

The Madisonian approach to institutional design, as set forth in The Federalist Papers, is examined from the point of view of leading theorists of the "public choice" school who see themselves as the political heirs of that earlier legacy. Bernard Grofman taught a course on representation in which the readings included both the Federalist Papers and Buchanan and Tullock s Calculus of Consent. In teaching that course (and, as he writes, forcing himself to reread the Federalist carefully for the first time since his own graduate student days), his admiration for its authors, already high, grew even higher. Convinced that theorists of the public choice school were the natural heirs to the Federalist legacy, he was inspired to invite other scholars to contribute to this volume of articles. The new institutionalists of the public choice school are, Grofman says, the natural heirs to Madisonian political theory, but the features of Madisonian theory are almost entirely absent from the public choice literature: the role of deliberation and rational persuasion, a concern for justice and the search for the public good, and a respect for civic virtue and civic education. In that vision, institutions really do matter. Contemporary theorists of the new institutionalism have at their disposal powerful analytic tools which can be used to reformulate and clarify classic issues in political theory. A leading traditional political theorist wrote that public choice modelers needed to rediscover the Constitution (Mansfield, 1987, 41). This volume is intended as a first start in that direction.

The Federalist Papers and the New Institutionalism (Series on representation)

Politics & Government

The Departmental Guide to Implementation of Student Outcomes Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness

Nichols, James O.

Presents case studies on three major research universities, four four- year colleges and universities, and four community colleges, offering insights on developing and implementing programs for assessment of institutional effectiveness and student outcomes. Includes extensive appendices of material from other institutions providing specific examples of intended educational outcomes, means of assessment, and criteria for success from a variety of disciplines and administrative departments. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Assessment Case Studies: Common Issues in Implementation With Various Campus Approaches to Resolution

James O. Nichols

Sociology

The Departmental Guide, which has sold more than 25,000 copies in its first two editions, has been revised in this third edition to focus exclusively on assessment of instructional programs. Sections on assessment in graduate and professional programs and an introduction to assessment in general education have been added. There is also expanded coverage of topics encountered as institutions attempt to "close the loop" to include utilization of assessment results to improve student learning.

The Departmental Guide and Record Book for Student Outcomes Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness: Enhancing Student Learning and Institutional Performance through Effective Assessment Practices

Nichols, Karen W.

Schools & Teaching

The first publication to recognize that while administrative and educational support (AES) units should conduct assessment to improve their services, their assessment focus and procedures are substantively different from those in the institution's instructional programs. The Department Head's Guide leads AES staff through formulation of administrative service objectives, to identification of means of assessment, as well as primary and secondary criteria for success, and ultimately to using the results of assessment activities to improve services. Among the AES units for which the authors provide examples of the process are the Office of the Registrar, the Library, the Career Center, and the Accounting Department. Assessment implementation in public service and research units is also discussed.

The Department Head's Guide to Assessment Implementation in Administrative and Educational Support Units

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Agathon Press publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Agathon Press