This book is an accessible introduction to quantitative dataanalysis, concentrating on the key issues facing those new toresearch, such as how to decide which statistical procedure issuitable, and how to interpret the subsequent results. Each chapterincludes illustrative examples and a set of exercises that allowsreaders to test their understanding of the topic. The book, writtenfor graduate students in the social sciences, public health, andeducation, offers a practical approach to making sociological senseout of a body of quantitative data. The book also will be useful tomore experienced researchers who need a readily accessible handbookon quantitative methods. The author has posted stata files, updates and data sets athis websitehttp://tinyurl.com/Treiman-stata-files-data-sets.
This book is an accessible introduction to quantitative data analysis, concentrating on the key issues facing those new to research, such as how to decide which statistical procedure is suitable, and how to interpret the subsequent results.
A collection of 14 contributions which explore a variety of issues in the application of information technologies to higher education. Hanna (educational communications, U. of Wisconsin) has selected the chapters to address such themes as the emergence of a global learning society; changing patterns of individual, organizational, and social needs; the challenges and possibilities of advanced technologies; transformational change in higher education on a global scale; and the importance of ethics and equity of access as elements that must drive decision making and leadership at an organizational level. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Hanna (educational communications, U. of Wisconsin) has selected the chapters to address such themes as the emergence of a global learning society; changing patterns of individual, organizational, and social needs; the challenges and ...
Strategy, Innovation, and Management in Higher Education
An examination of organizational dynamics as they are affected by internal creative processes, using the example of a regional state university campus, which dynamics the authors believe are applicable to other public institutions or possibly organizations of any kind. Emphasis is on the utilization.
An examination of organizational dynamics as they are affected by internal creative processes, using the example of a regional state university campus, which dynamics the authors believe are applicable to other public institutions or ...
Exploring the intellectual Frontiers in Agenda-setting theory
Exciting intellectual frontiers are open for exploration as agenda-setting theory moves beyond its 25th anniversary. This volume offers an intriguing set of maps to guide this exploration over the near future. It is intended for those who are already reasonably well read in the research literature that has accumulated since the publication of McCombs and Shaw's original 1972 Public Opinion Quarterly article. This piece of literature documented the influence of the news media agenda on the public agenda in a wide variety of geographic and social settings, elaborated the characteristics of audiences and media that enhance or diminish those agenda-setting effects, and cataloged those exogenous factors explaining who sets the media's agenda. In the current volume, a provocative set of maps for explicating new levels of agenda-setting theory have been sketched by a new generation of young scholars, launching an enterprise that has significant implications for theoretical research and for the day-to-day role of mass communication in democratic societies. At the first level of agenda setting are agendas of objects--the traditional domain of agenda setting research--represented by an accumulation of hundreds of studies over the past quarter century. At the second level of agenda setting are agendas of attributes--one of the new theoretical frontiers whose aspects are discussed in detail in the opening chapters. Other chapters offer maps of yet other theoretical frontiers, including political advertising agendas and their impact on behavior, the framing of various agendas in the mass media and the differential impact of print and TV, the theoretical role of individual differences in the agenda-setting influence of the news media on the public agenda, methodological advances for determining cause and effect roles in agenda-setting, and the application of agenda-setting theory to historical analysis. This volume is an invitation to others to become active members of the invisible college of agenda-setting scholarship. As such, the goals of this book are threefold: * to introduce a broad set of ideas about agenda-setting; * to enrich the exploration of these ideas by enhancing scholarly dialogue among the members of this invisible college; and * to enhance the discussion of agenda-setting research in seminars and research groups around the world. Agenda-setting has remained a vital and productive area of communication research over a quarter century because it has continued to introduce new research questions into the marketplace of ideas and to integrate this work with other theoretical concepts and perspectives about journalism and mass communication. Understanding the dynamics of agenda- setting is central to understanding the dynamics of contemporary democracy. This book's set of theoretical essays, grounded in the accumulated literature of agenda- setting theory and in the creative insights of young scholars, will help lead the way toward that understanding.
Exciting intellectual frontiers are open for exploration as agenda-setting theory moves beyond its 25th anniversary. This volume offers an intriguing set of maps to guide this exploration over the near future.
Moral injury is a profound violation of a human being's core moral identity through experiences of violence or trauma. This is the first book in which scholars from different faith and academic backgrounds consider the concept of moral injury not merely from a pastoral or philosophical point of view but through critical engagement with the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and American Civil Religion. This collection of essays explores the ambiguities of personal culpability among both perpetrators and victims of violence and the suffering involved in accepting personal agency in trauma. Contributors provide fresh and compelling readings of texts from different faith traditions and use their findings to reflect on real-life strategies for recovery from violations of core moral beliefs and their consequences such as shame, depression and addiction. With interpretations of the sacred texts, contributors reflect on the concerns of the morally-injured today and offer particular aspects of healing from their communities as support, making this a groundbreaking contribution to the study of moral injury and trauma.
In that text, Ahmed talks about the Islamic mystical tradition (Sufism), which sees Zulaykha “transformed from the ... of Qur'ān commentary) to the embodiment of the passion of true love (and thus a model for the Sufi love of God).
Emphasis on verb forms, complex structures, & grammar concepts using example & exercises to reinforce the development of speaking, listening, writing & reading abilities.
* Thorough development of skills with particular emphasis on reading and writing * Systematic grammar work ensures fast progress * Regular recycling revision consolidates the language work done * The easy-to-follow Teacher's Book provides clear lesson notes, assessment tests and plenty of additional resources * Accompanying interactive CD-ROMs provide extra self-study practice
Thorough development of skills with particular emphasis on reading and writing Systematic grammar work ensures fast progress Regular recycling revision consolidates the language work done The easy-to-follow Teacher's Book provides clear ...
