Educational psychology

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 offers a concise summary of cutting-edge research and practical implications about employee engagement.

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 critical insight into sustainability and fashion in a retailing and marketing context.

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.

Behaviour change is hard, but O'Mara shows that by adopting strategies that are well-founded in the science of brain and behaviour individuals and organisations can adapt to the demands of the modern world.

"e;Alan Coppin is a rare individual.

This book provides an overview of the state-of-the art of psychological research on learning and knowledge exchange with digital media, based on a comprehensive research program that was realized at the Leibniz-Institut fur Wissensmedien(IWM) during the last decade.

This book explores college students' lived experiences of using digital technologies for their academic work.

This book offers insights into facilitating sustainable careers through the study of a wide interdisciplinary range of policy investigations and assessment of ongoing practices in the field.

This book constructs a multi-disciplinary interpretation of emotion, specifically applied and discussed within Organizational Change environments.

This book is a guide to help teachers, parents, guidance counselors and other stakeholders understand the importance of intervention for gifted children and to become an advocate for those individuals who are developmentally advanced.

This book addresses and demonstrates the importance of critical approaches to autoethnography, particularly the commitment that such approaches make to theorizing the personal and to creating work that embodies a social justice ethos.

This is the first volume to present individual chapters on the full range of developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders in children and adults.

This Brief focuses on youth who engage in sexually harmful behavior and how they transition back into public schools after serving time in a juvenile detention center or treatment facility.

This book explores the theoretical foundations of gamification in learning and education.

This book provides a comprehensive method for learning modern management processes, and applying those methods to improve leadership in educational settings.

This book provides an overview of the design and development of learning games using examples from those created by the authors over last decade.

This book reflects on the continuing development of teacher noticing through an exploration of the latest research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2016, held in Munster, Germany, in October 2015.

This book introduces and analyzes the models for engineering leadership and competency skills, as well as frameworks for industry-academia collaboration and is appropriate for students, researchers, and professionals interested in continuous professional development.

This book explores a cultural understanding of cities and processes of civic learning by scrutinizing urban educational topics from a cultural studies perspective.

This book aims to provide insight into how digital technologies may bridge and enhance formal and informal workplace learning.

This handbook presents the current evidence-based psychological treatments for trauma related disorders in childhood and adolescence and in addition provides clearly structured, up-to-date information on the basic principles of traumatic stress research and practice in that age group, covering epidemiology, developmental issues, pathogenetic models, diagnostics, and assessment.

This book outlines a range of innovative methods to gather student feedback, and explores the complex relation between student engagement, student satisfaction, and student success.

This book considers the scope and dynamics of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and learning in schools in Africa.

This book offers both marketing and sales professionals a rare combined insight into both worlds to continuously capture customer intelligence and create value, by blending detailed research with academic rigor and commercial experience of the authors in both Europe and North America.

Shows how to unlock the massive efficiency savings and productivity gains by reframing the approach to flexible working by concentrating on workforce agility.