Political Science Research Methods helps students to understand the logic behind research design by guiding them through a step-by-step process that explains when and why a researcher would pursue different kinds of methods.
Editor J. Bradley Cousins and colleagues used a multi-phase empirical process to develop and validate a set of principles to guide collaborative approaches to evaluation. This book outlines the principles that the team developed. The case studies that are then used to demonstrate how these principles have been applied draw on programs globally in education, health, and community development. The text is an invaluable supplementary text for program evaluation courses where students' projects are focused on more collaborative and participatory approaches, and it is an essential resource for practicing evaluators, and those who commission program evaluations.
Connecting career aspirations with the post-college world is crucial for students today. Careers in Psychology, Fifth Edition helps students navigate and plan for their futures by offering exposure to the rich careers in each subfield of psychology and prompting students to consider the what, why and how of each option.
The third edition gives students the extra guidance with SPSS they need without taking up valuable in-class time. Designed to work across disciplines, the step-by-step examples, hints and insights will give students the extra guidance they need to pick an analysis, run it using SPSS, and write it up. From measures of central tendency up to linear regression, the third edition covers topics most commonly covered in introductory statistics classes, showing the user how to plan a study, prepare data for analysis, perform the analysis and interpret the output from SPSS. The new Third Edition covers IBM (R) SPSS (R) version 25, includes a new section on Syntax, and all chapters have been updated to reflect current menu options along with many SPSS screenshots, making the process much simpler for the user. In addition, helpful hints and insights are provided through the features "Tips and Caveats" and "Sidebars."
Seven Skills of Media Literacy 1st Edition supplements W. James Potter's core text, Media Literacy 9th Edition. Seven Skills will go into depth about how to teach the seven skills that will help improve student's media literacy in their everyday lives. Potter offers practical guidance and exercises, with each chapter of the book addressing one skill.
Helping students of all disciplines build the skills they need to recruit, select, train, and develop people, this second edition explores the important strategic function HR plays in today's organizations. A wide variety of applications, self-assessments, and experiential exercises keep students engaged and help them see the relevancy of HR as they learn skills they can use in their personal and professional lives. Bestselling authors Robert N. Lussier and John R. Hendon include 13 new case studies and new coverage of the agile workplace, generational differences, gamification, social media, and diversity and inclusion.
Social Welfare Policy in a Changing World is an approachable and student-friendly text that links policy and practice and employs a critical analytic lens to U.S. social welfare policy. With particular attention to disparities based on class, race/ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation and gender, authors Shannon R. Lane, Elizabeth Palley, and Corey Shdaimah assess the impact of policies at the micro, meso, and macro levels.
Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints
RealWorld Evaluation: Working Under Budget, Time, Data, and Political Constraints addresses the challenges of conducting program evaluations in real-world contexts where evaluators and their clients face budget and time constraints. The text is organized around the authors' seven-step model that has been tested in workshops and practice environments to help the evaluation implementers and managers make the best choices when faced with real world constraints. New to this edition: A new chapter focusing on gender equality and women's empowerment provides an overview of approaches for assessing program impacts and helping readers achieve a conceptual understanding of these issues. Coverage of Digital technology and Data science is now included to explore the opportunities and challenges in building bridges between data scientists and development evaluators and offer insights on ethical and responsible data practices. Increased coverage of themes regarding complexity, emergence, issue of agency, and implications of equity has been added throughout. Equity issues are discussed throughout to emphasize the need for a complexity-focused evaluation methodology and expand readers' knowledge of these programs.
The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving
Drawing on more than 40 years of experience with policy analysis, best-selling authors Eugene Bardach and Eric M. Patashnik use real-world examples to teach students how to be effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysts. The Sixth Edition of A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis presents dozens of concrete tips, new case studies, and step-by-step strategies for the budding analyst as well as the seasoned professional.
