Systematic Synthesis of Qualitative Research (Pocket Guide by Michael Saini,Aron Shlonsky

By Michael Saini,Aron Shlonsky

Qualitative synthesis in the relatives of systematic studies meets an pressing have to use wisdom derived from qualitative stories to notify perform, examine, and coverage. regardless of the contingent nature of facts gleaned from synthesis of qualitative reviews, systematic synthesis is a vital process and, used judiciously, can deepen knowing of the contextual dimensions that emerge from qualitative examine. This pocket consultant offers an summary for making plans, constructing, and imposing qualitative synthesis inside present protocols and instructions for carrying out systematic reports. The authors additionally discover methodological demanding situations, together with: the philosophical tensions of integrating qualitative synthesis in the relatives of systematic studies; the stability of complete and iterative info retrieval concepts to find and monitor qualitative examine; using appraisal instruments to evaluate caliber of qualitative stories; a number of the methods to synthesize qualitative experiences, together with interpretive, built-in, and aggregative; and the tensions among the generalizability and transferability of findings that emerge from qualitative synthesis.

Social paintings researchers, educators, and doctoral scholars who're attracted to systematic stories will locate the step by step structure of this ebook valuable for undertaking their experiences, either within the type of speedy facts exams and in top of the range severe reviews.

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Qualitative Research Methods: Collecting Evidence, Crafting by Sarah J. Tracy

By Sarah J. Tracy

Qualitative study Methods is a entire, all-inclusive source for the speculation and perform of qualitative/ethnographic learn methodology.

  • Serves as a “how-to” advisor for qualitative/ethnographic study, detailing how you can layout a venture, behavior interviews and concentration teams, interpret and study info, and characterize it in a compelling manner
  • Demonstrates how qualitative info could be systematically applied to deal with urgent own, organizational, and social problems
  • Written in an interesting sort, with in-depth examples from the author’s personal practice
  • Comprehensive significant other site comprises pattern syllabi, lesson plans, a listing of precious web site hyperlinks, attempt financial institution and examination evaluate fabrics, and workouts and worksheets, on hand upon e-book at www.wiley.com/go/tracy

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Aquatic Telemetry: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on by Eva B. Thorstad,Ian A. Fleming,Tor Fredrik Naesje

By Eva B. Thorstad,Ian A. Fleming,Tor Fredrik Naesje

This quantity presents a variety of the main major papers provided on the Fourth convention on Fish Telemetry in Europe, in Trondheim, Norway, in 2001. Papers are enthusiastic about migratory styles and habitat utilisation, social behaviour, physiological ecology, fisheries administration, results of human impression on fish populations, aquaculture and technique, and new expertise.


This booklet is geared toward scientists and engineers actively eager about aquatic telemetry initiatives, aquatic biologists (marine and freshwater), fisheries biologists and executives.

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International Science and Technology Education: Exploring by Ortwin Renn,Nicole C. Karafyllis,Andreas Hohlt,Dorothea

By Ortwin Renn,Nicole C. Karafyllis,Andreas Hohlt,Dorothea Taube

Education in technological know-how, expertise, engineering and arithmetic (STEM) is essential for benefiting from the clients of recent clinical discoveries beginning or selling technological adjustments, and coping with possibilities and hazards linked to strategies. This booklet explores the rising views and methodologies of STEM schooling and its dating to the cultural realizing of technological know-how and know-how in a global context.


The authors supply a special viewpoint at the topic, providing fabrics and studies from non-European industrialized in addition to industrializing nations, together with China, Japan, South Korea, India, Egypt, Brazil and the us. The chapters supply a large scope of interpretations and comparative reports of STEM schooling via together with narrative parts approximately cultural advancements, contemplating the effect of tradition and social perceptions on technological and social swap, and making use of cutting edge instruments of qualitative social research.


The ebook represents a accomplished and multidisciplinary evaluation of the present prestige and destiny demanding situations dealing with STEM schooling internationally, together with matters akin to globalization, interdependencies of norms and values, results on fairness and social justice in addition to resilience. total the quantity offers helpful insights for a extensive and complete overseas comparability of STEM philosophies, ways and experiences.

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Qualitative Research: Bridging the Conceptual, Theoretical, by Sharon M. Ravitch,Nicole C. Mittenfelner Carl

By Sharon M. Ravitch,Nicole C. Mittenfelner Carl

fascinated by constructing the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological wisdom had to interact in rigorous and legitimate learn, this introductory textual content presents sensible motives, routines, and suggestion for a way to behavior qualitative research—from layout via implementation, research, and writing up learn. Qualitative Research offers the sector in a distinct and significant manner, and is helping readers comprehend what authors Sharon M. Ravitch and Nicole Mittenfelner Carl name “criticality” in qualitative learn by way of speaking its foundations and tactics with readability and ease whereas nonetheless taking pictures complexity. filled with real-life examples of questions, concerns, and occasions that stem from the authors’ and their scholars’ examine, the e-book humanizes the qualitative study undertaking, illustrates the kinds of eventualities that come up, and emphasizes the significance of actively contemplating paradigmatic values all through each level of the study strategy. In each bankruptcy, the authors illustrate the qualitative examine technique as decidedly ideological, political, and subjective utilizing issues of criticality, reflexivity, collaboration, and rigor.

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Teaching Science and Investigating Environmental Issues with by James MaKinster,Nancy Trautmann,Michael Barnett

By James MaKinster,Nancy Trautmann,Michael Barnett

The rising box of utilizing geospatial know-how to educate technological know-how and environmental schooling offers a great chance to find the ways that educators use research-grounded pedagogical commitments together with their sensible reports to layout and enforce powerful instructor expert improvement initiatives. frequently lacking from the literature are in-depth, specific discussions of why and the way educators decide to offer sure stories and assets for the academics with whom they paintings, and the ensuing results.

The first half this ebook will permit technology and environmental educators to proportion the character and constitution of huge scale specialist improvement initiatives whereas discussing the theoretical commitments that undergird their paintings. Many chapters will comprise temporal elements that current the ways that tasks switch through the years based on evaluative learn and useful event.

In the second one half the ebook, college and others whose concentration is on nationwide and foreign scales will percentage the ways that they're operating to fulfill the turning out to be wishes of lecturers around the globe to include geospatial expertise into their technology instructing. those efforts replicate the continued conversations in technological know-how schooling, geography, and the geospatial in ways in which include the possibilities and demanding situations inherent to this box.

This edited ebook will serve to outline the sector of instructor expert improvement for instructing technological know-how utilizing geospatial expertise. As such, it's going to establish brief time period and long-term ambitions for technological know-how, environmental, and geography educators focused on those efforts. therefore, this ebook will supply a framework for destiny tasks and examine during this interesting and turning out to be box.

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Modeling Methods for Marine Science by David M. Glover,William J. Jenkins,Scott C. Doney

By David M. Glover,William J. Jenkins,Scott C. Doney

This complex textbook on modeling, info research and numerical suggestions for marine technology has been built from a path taught via the authors for a few years on the Woods gap Oceanographic Institute. the 1st half covers statistics: singular price decomposition, mistakes propagation, least squares regression, critical part research, time sequence research and aim interpolation. the second one half offers with modeling suggestions: finite adjustments, balance research and optimization. The 3rd half describes case reviews of exact ocean types of ever expanding dimensionality and complexity, beginning with zero-dimensional types and completing with three-d common circulate versions. through the booklet hands-on computational examples are brought utilizing the MATLAB programming language and the rules of clinical visualization are emphasized. excellent as a textbook for complex scholars of oceanography on classes in facts research and numerical modeling, the publication can also be a useful source for a extensive diversity of scientists project modeling in chemical, organic, geological and actual oceanography.

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Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for by Gary Miner,John Elder,Andrew Fast,Thomas Hill,Robert

By Gary Miner,John Elder,Andrew Fast,Thomas Hill,Robert Nisbet,Dursun Delen

Practical textual content Mining and Statistical research for Non-structured textual content facts Applications brings jointly all of the details, instruments and techniques a certified might want to successfully use textual content mining functions and statistical analysis.

Winner of a 2012 PROSE Award in Computing and data Sciences from the organization of yankee Publishers, this ebook offers a accomplished how-to reference that indicates the person the right way to behavior textual content mining and statistically learn effects. as well as offering an in-depth exam of middle textual content mining and hyperlink detection instruments, equipment and operations, the e-book examines complex preprocessing recommendations, wisdom illustration concerns, and visualization techniques. ultimately, the e-book explores present real-world, mission-critical functions of textual content mining and hyperlink detection utilizing actual international instance tutorials in such diverse fields as company, finance, company intelligence, genomics study, and counterterrorism activities.

The international includes an unimaginably great quantity of electronic details that's getting ever vaster ever extra swiftly. This makes it attainable to do many stuff that in the past couldn't be performed: spot enterprise traits, hinder illnesses, strive against crime and so forth. controlled good, the textual facts can be utilized to liberate new assets of financial price, offer clean insights into technological know-how and carry governments to account. because the net expands and our ordinary skill to approach the unstructured textual content that it comprises diminishes, the worth of textual content mining for info retrieval and seek increases dramatically.

  • Extensive case experiences, so much in an educational structure, let the reader to 'click via' the instance utilizing a software, hence studying to behavior textual content mining analyses within the such a lot speedy demeanour of studying possible
  • Numerous examples, tutorials, energy issues and datasets to be had through significant other site on Elsevierdirect.com
  • Glossary of textual content mining phrases supplied within the appendix

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Physikdidaktik: Theorie und Praxis (Springer-Lehrbuch) by Ernst Kircher,Raimund Girwidz,Peter Häußler

By Ernst Kircher,Raimund Girwidz,Peter Häußler

Das Handbuch fasst „Physikdidaktik", „Physikdidaktik in der Praxis", „Moderne Teilgebiete des Physikunterrichts" sowie „Aktuelle Beiträge zur Physikdidaktik" in einem Sammelband zusammen. Die in Teil 1 und 2 übernommenen Beiträge wurden aktualisiert. Teil three wurde mit dem Anspruch gestaltet, Themen der modernen Physik näher an die Schulpraxis heranzuführen. Teil four befasst sich mit dem Hintergrundwissen, das Studierende, Referendare und Lehrkräfte benötigen. Ergänzt wurden u. a. Aufsätze zur Fortbildung von Physiklehrern und zu Schülerlaboren.

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