Classroom Practice Books

New and Published Books

1. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners

   Instructional Strategies and Assessment Tools for School Psychologists

   By Holly S. Hudspath-Niemi, Mary Lou Conroy

   Series: School-Based Practice in Action

   There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners increases school psychologists’ knowledge...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. Teaching English, Language and Literacy

   3rd Edition

   By Dominic Wyse, Russell Jones, Helen Bradford, Mary Anne Wolpert

   ‘This book is comprehensive, up-to-date, critical and authoritative. It is also, above all, well written. It will undoubtedly become standard reading for the next generation of teachers in training and practising teachers will also learn a great deal from dipping into its contents.' - David Wray,...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. How to Stop Bullying in Classrooms and Schools

   Using Social Architecture to Prevent, Lessen, and End Bullying

   By Phyllis Kaufman Goodstein

   The premise of this guidebook for teacher educators, school professionals, and in-service and pre-service teachers is that bullying occurs because of breakdowns in relationships. The focus of the 10-point empirically researched anti-bullying program it presents is based on building and...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. The Heart of Teaching

   Empowering Students in the Performing Arts

   By Stephen Wangh

   The Heart of Teaching is a book about teaching and learning in the performing arts. Its focus is on the inner dynamics of teaching: the processes by which teachers can promote—or undermine—creativity itself. It covers the many issues that teachers, directors and choreographers experience, from...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
5. International Guide to Student Achievement

   Edited by John Hattie, Eric M. Anderman

   Series: Educational Psychology Handbook

   The International Guide to Student Achievement brings together and critically examines the major influences shaping student achievement today. There are many, often competing, claims about how to enhance student achievement, raising the questions of "What works?" and "What works best?"...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
6. Aesthetic Experience in Science Education

   Learning and Meaning-Making as Situated Talk and Action

   By Per-Olof Wickman

   Series: Teaching and Learning in Science Series

   This book examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science and in science education from the perspective of knowledge as action and language use. The theoretical underpinnings are based on the writings of John Dewey and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In their spirit aesthetics is examined as it...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Contemporary Psychometrics

   Edited by Albert Maydeu-Olivares, John J. McArdle

   Series: Multivariate Applications Series

   Contemporary Psychometrics features cutting edge chapters organized in four sections: test theory, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and multivariate analysis. The section on test theory includes topics such as multidimensional item response theory (IRT), the relationship between IRT...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
8. Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences

   By Norman Cliff, John A. Keats

   This book provides an alternative method for measuring individual differences in psychological, educational, and other behavioral sciences studies. It is based on the assumptions of ordinal statistics as explained in Norman Cliff's 1996 Ordinal Methods for Behavioral Data Analysis. It provides the...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Psychology Press
9. The Reception Year in Action, revised and updated edition

   A month-by-month guide to success in the classroom, 2nd Edition

   By Anna Ephgrave

   ‘The Reception Year in Action will take the understanding of outdoor play, teaching and learning to a new level. Everyone who is involved with early years education and care should read this book!’ Helen Bilton, University of Reading, UK ‘This is a fantastic book... it shows exactly how an...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. Invariant Measurement

    Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

    By George Engelhard Jr.

    This introductory text describes the principles of invariant measurement, how invariant measurement can be achieved with Rasch models, and how to use invariant measurement to solve measurement problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Rasch models are used throughout but a comparison...

    Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge Academic