Educational psychology

This book describes the Data Team Procedure: a method for data-based decision making that can help schools to improve their quality.

This edited volume brings forth intriguing, novel and innovative research in the field of science education.

This book shows how principles of self-regulated learning are being implemented in secondary classrooms.

This book examines disproportionality in education, focusing on issues of social justice for diverse and marginalized students.

This data-rich volume reviews short- and long-term consequences of residential or institutional care for children across the globe as well as approaches to reducing maltreatment.

This brief will explore how open access repositories are being developed and maintained, in order to provide, disseminate and promote the development of digital educational resources.

This book describes recent approaches in advancing STEM education with the use of robotics, innovative methods in integrating robotics in school subjects, engaging and stimulating students with robotics in classroom-based and out-of-school activities, and new ways of using robotics as an educational tool to provide diverse learning experiences.

This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development.

This book brings together 10 experiments which introduce historical perspectives into mathematics classrooms for 11 to 18-year-olds.

This book listens to the voices of post-school teachers, managers, theorists, trainees, teacher educators and students talking about the battle against being educated.

In this book, Raymond Duval shows how his theory of registers of semiotic representation can be used as a tool to analyze the cognitive processes through which students develop mathematical thinking.

This book offers a range of approaches and specific examples of how a sample of internationally leading research-intensive universities, from a variety of regions around the world, work to improve teaching and learning.

This book discusses how we can inspire today's youth to engage in challenging and productive discussions around the past, present and future role of animals in science education.

This volume focuses on selected innovative programs designed to augment the science, engineering, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce through increasing and enhancing the participation of under-represented groups.

This book is based on the Life Design paradigm and discusses the efforts made to overcome the matching paradigm between individuals and their work contexts, in order to guarantee the adoption of an active role for future career planning.

This volume tackles issues arising from today's high reliance on learning from visualizations in general and dynamic visualizations in particular at all levels of education.

This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field.

This book reviews strategies for assessing and treating pediatric obesity in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (ND).

This exceptional volume analyzes the intricate roles interest plays in cognition, motivation and learning, and daily living, with a special focus on its development and maintenance across life domains.

This book reports on a research program designed to construct the basics of a new type of literacy that teaches pupils social problem-solving at individual and collective levels.

This volume explores the nature of discourse in secondary and upper elementary mathematics and science classrooms.

This book radically counters the optimism sparked by Competence Based Education and Training, an educational philosophy that has re-emerged in Schooling, Vocational and Higher Education in the last decade.

This book uses the metaphors of practice spaces and practice sessions to demonstrate the connection between creative and performance practices, and critical pedagogy.

This book acts as a highly practical guide for new and experienced lecturers, learning supporters and leaders in Higher Education; and offers plentiful examples and vignettes showing how learning can be brought to life through activity and engagement.

This book focuses on what school leaders need to know and understand about leadership for learning, and for learning to read in particular.

This book provides a conceptual and empirical perspective on learning analytics, its goal being to disseminate the core concepts, research, and outcomes of this emergent field.

This book reports on research and practice on computational thinking and the effect it is having on education worldwide, both inside and outside of formal schooling.

This book presents evidence-based practices for appropriate assessment of and school-based services for young English language learners.

This book draws on detailed case studies from three very different countries and school systems to explore the early adolescent learner and the middle years of learning, both of which are often overlooked in the literature.

This brief presents a new approach to the study of bullying and prejudice in school settings, analyzing the particularities of these two forms of violence and relating them to the hierarchies that distinguish students based on academic performance and popularity.

This Springer Brief provides theory, practical guidance, and support tools to help designers create complex, valid assessment tasks for hard-to-measure, yet crucial, science education standards.

This volume discusses Alfred Binet's works on pedagogy based on his "e;Orthopedie Mentale"e;.

This volume draws together the viewpoints and research findings of leading scholars and informed local practitioner-researchers throughout Asia-Pacific about the issues and challenges of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) at higher education institutions in that region.

This book presents recent advancements in positive psychology, specifically its application across broad areas of current interest.

This book reviews and critiques the growing literature on youth development under conditions of political violence and armed conflict.

This volume collects most recent work on the role of technology in mathematics education.

This book provides a unique international comparative perspective on diverse issues and practices in mathematics education between and among the US and five high-performing TIMSS education systems, Japan, China, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

This book broadens the scope and impact of digital storytelling in higher education.

This book describes lessons learned from the implementation of research based learning at Maastricht University.

While considerable evidence indicates that school leaders are able to make important contributions to the success of their students, much less is known about how such contributions are made.

This brief highlights several of the most pressing challenges in addressing the needs of families who are experiencing homelessness and presents a set of strong policy recommendations for assessment, intervention, research, and service delivery related to homeless children and their parents.

This Brief provides the theoretical foundation of the Camp Sharigan program, while discussing its practical applications and summarizing research studies.

The second edition of this comprehensive volume presents methods for nonverbal assessment of diverse individuals, such as persons with speech or hearing deficits, limited English skills, or emotional problems.

This book provides a diverse look at various aspects of preparing informal science educators.

This book critically examines multiple discourses of wellbeing in relation to the composite aims of schooling.

This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings.

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).

This book examines the impact of pediatric HIV on children, adolescents, and their families.

This book examines a group-based adaptation of the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) designed for use with preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

This book empirically examines academic conferences in the social sciences, and explores the purpose and value of people interested in the social sciences attending and presenting at national and international academic conferences.