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A Developmental Systems Guide for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Practitioners
(North Broad Press, 2023) Snyder, Sean E.
A Developmental Systems Guide for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Practitioners provides clinicians with actionable evidence-based practices for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of child and adolescent mental and behavioral health. This approach combines developmental psychology and ecological systems in recognition of the fact that children’s developmental challenges, tasks, and capacities intersect with the risks and protective factors of their environment. Chapters feature detailed case studies and conclude with conversations with clinicians in which they share targeted recommendations for patient evaluation, treatment approaches, and family engagement and support.
A Quick Guide to Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences
(University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2020) Davies, Christine
This resource is intended as an easy-to-use guide for anyone who needs some quick and simple advice on quantitative aspects of research in social sciences, covering subjects such as education, sociology, business, nursing. If you area qualitative researcher who needs to venture into the world of numbers, or a student instructed to undertake a quantitative research project despite a hatred for maths, then this booklet should be a real help.
A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences
(Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project, 2019) Allosso, Dan; Allosso, Salvatore F.
A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son, a History professor, on a new version of the writing manual he wrote and used for decades at the University of California, Davis.
Abnormal Psychology
(2021) Cummings, Jorden A.
This text has been created from a combination of original content and materials compiled and adapted from existing open educational resources.
Cognitive Load Theory: Emerging Trends and Innovations
(MDPI, 2025) Paas, Fred; Tricot, Andre; Ouwehand, Kim; Lespiau, Florence
This Reprint of the Special Issue, titled "Cognitive Load Theory: Emerging Trends and Innovations" (Education Sciences, April 2025) explores the latest advancements in cognitive load theory (CLT), a pivotal framework for optimizing learning through cognitive psychology and instructional design. Featuring 15 articles from the 15th International Cognitive Load Theory Conference, it examines how CLT adapts to modern challenges like technology-enhanced learning, embodied cognition, and individual learner differences. From mitigating split-attention effects to leveraging mixed reality and nature exposure, this Reprint offers fresh insights for educators, designers, and researchers shaping effective learning environments.
Critical Thinking in Everyday Life
(MPDI, 2025) Dwyer, Christopher P.
Critical thinking is a metacognitive process that, through purposeful, self-regulatory reflective judgment; the skills of analysis, evaluation, and inference; and a disposition towards thinking, increases the chances of producing a logical conclusion to an argument or a solution to a problem. As a result of the dramatically increasing availability of information (including both misinformation and disinformation), the need for critical thinking is arguably more important now than ever. Given the role of higher-order cognitive processes for the foundation of critical thinking, the relationship between intelligence and critical thinking is important to consider, not only for readers of the Journal of Intelligence, but for anyone with an interest in researching cognitive science and education, or simply those wishing to enhance the quality of thinking in their everyday lives. Given that a large body of CT research has focused on its conceptualisation and enhancement through educational strategies, this Special Issue is unique in its scope due to exploring the application of critical thinking to real-world settings and everyday life through a collection of original research, a review of the literature, and position pieces regarding topics of utmost relevance to such applications.
Cultivating Inclusive Classrooms: Practices in Special Education
(MDPI, 2025) Nel, Mirna; Bornman, Juan
The purpose of this Special Issue was to gather recent and high-quality research reports which integrated or investigated a socio-ecological approach towards inclusive teaching and learning practices in special education. Bronfenbrenner’s original ecological systems model was regarded as the fundamental influence on how to understand and apply a socio-ecological approach. The socio-ecological approach acknowledges and incorporates contextual factors, as well as inter-relational aspects between contexts, both of which are quintessential in attaining successful learning for learners in special education. In this context, inclusive education remains both a global priority and an evolving challenge, particularly within special education contexts where diverse learner needs demand innovative, evidence-based classroom practices. This Special Issue brings together fifteen impactful studies that collectively deepen our understanding of how inclusive classrooms can be cultivated, supported, and sustained across a variety of educational settings worldwide. They highlight a range of critical themes, from intervention programs that foster autonomy in young learners to the importance of teacher efficacy, community collaboration, inclusive policy, and systemic support mechanisms. Together, these studies underscore the essential role of differentiated pedagogical strategies, strategic intersectoral partnerships, value co-creation, and ongoing professional development as foundational pillars of inclusive education.
Culture and Psychology: How People Shape and are Shaped by Culture
(2022) Lisa, Worthy; Lavigne, T; Romero, F
Culture is one of the most powerful forces in the world. It shapes how we make sense of our world, how we express ourselves and how we understand and relate to others. In this textbook we introduce cultural universals and culturally specific constructs in psychology. This textbook was created for an undergraduate course that appeals to psychology majors and non-majors because it meets several general education and transfer credit requirements.
Emerging Trends in Innovative Learning Environments and Entrepreneurial Learning
(MDPI, 2025) Asghar, Muhammad Zaheer; Rasool, Samma Faiz
This research collection addresses the urgent need for a new approach to education and entrepreneurship. Traditional learning models often fail to account for individual and societal variability, like diverse cultural backgrounds and socioeconomic factors, which has marginalized many learners. This work aims to bridge this gap by exploring the relationship between emerging technologies, innovative learning environments, and entrepreneurial learning. The emphasis is on fostering an entrepreneurial mindset—including creativity and resilience—as a vital life skill for all. Contributors examine how education can be tailored to individual needs, how technology can be used equitably, and how entrepreneurial thinking can be nurtured across different societal contexts. This research also highlights the importance of incorporating sustainability and social impact into entrepreneurial education, moving beyond a focus solely on profit. Papers in this volume offer key insights across several areas. They explore foundational skills for entrepreneurial readiness, investigate organizational factors that shape innovative behavior, and address the intersection of technology, sustainability, and inclusion. This comprehensive collection provides a multifaceted view of how to create resilient and equitable entrepreneurial practices for everyone.
Empowering Teacher Professionalization with Digital Competences
(MDPI, 2025) Rubach, Charlott; Lazarides, Rebecca
The present Special Issue provides a platform for experts from both teacher education and teacher professional development who have examined the quality and design of technology-supported learning environments and their impact on pre-service and in-service teachers’ digital competencies. In line with research on high-quality teaching, the studies in this Special Issue emphasize both the process dimension, i.e., how instruction is designed, and the product dimension, i.e., what is to be learned. By drawing on these findings, we are now in a position to not only conclude that certain formats successfully foster teachers’ digital competencies but also to understand how such learning formats should be designed in order to be effective. The work presented in this Special Issue informs education research about central preconditions to foster teachers‘ digital competencies systematically, as well as providing knowledge for educational practice on the design principles of teacher education and professional development programs for teachers.
Encyclopedia of COVID-19
(MDPI, 2025) Bustin, Stephen
This collection from Encyclopedia brings together a diverse set of articles examining the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering topics from mental health and environmental changes to medical advancements and societal adaptations, this compendium provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges encountered and the innovations that emerged. Key discussions include the role of mRNA vaccines, the psychological toll of lockdowns, shifts in healthcare delivery, and the pandemic’s impact on various industries. Together, these contributions offer valuable insights into the pandemic’s legacy and the lessons that will shape global preparedness in the future.
General Psychology: An Introduction
(NOBA, 2017) Kearns, Tori; Deborah, Lee
The NOBA Project is a growing collection of expert-authored, open-licensed modules in psychology, funded by the Diener Education Fund. From these open modules, Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee created an arranged open textbook for her introductory psychology class. This textbook was created under a Round One ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.
Grounding Cognition in Perceptual Experience
(MDPI, 2025) Bianchi, Ivana; Actis-Grosso, Rossana; Ball, Linden
This reprint presents a multifaceted reflection on the influence of perceptual experience on various aspects of cognitive performance. It brings together contributions that demonstrate the importance of properties that emerge from perceptual experience in shaping our mental representations, beliefs, language, imagination, evaluations, actions, and interactions. The term 'perceptual experience' was chosen for the title over the more familiar 'perception' to emphasize that our focus is on human phenomenological experience rather than brain activity. This reprint demonstrates the role of experience in contemporary research in psychology and cognitive science within a broad framework. The chapters cover a wide range of topics and address various questions. One such question is how perceptual experience contributes to our conceptualization of experience. This relates to basic same-different categorization, judgements of numerosity, as well as the experienced qualities of environments (e.g. restorative environments) or movements (e.g. optimal movements). It also relates to the pleasantness of pictures and the naive theories we develop based on perception, and to how we shape paradigms such as those of 'illusions'. This volume also addresses other questions, such as how perceptual experience is reflected in linguistic configurations and how perception influences reasoning processes, memory, and empathic responses to descriptions of experiences. The thirteen papers in this reprint each provide answers to these questions from a unique point of view.
Incremental and Innovative Approaches to Professional Development for Mathematics Teachers
(MDPI, 2025) Otten, Samuel; Candela, Amber G.; Araujo, Zandra De
Professional development researchers and teacher educators have been striving to improve mathematics instruction for decades, but in many places, there has been an inertia of procedurally focused mathematics instruction that has been incredibly resistant to change. Even when specific professional development (PD) efforts have found success in certain contexts or with certain teachers, it has proven difficult to sustain and disseminate these instructional improvements on a broader scale. This Special Issue on PD for mathematics teachers includes contributions reflecting on the limitations of transformational PD (PD that seeks profound changes in mathematics instruction) and studies on innovative and incremental approaches to PD striving to make instructional changes more manageable for teachers in their busy lives and complex educational contexts, and perhaps thus more likely to sustain and spread. Some of the featured research on incremental PD breaks down transformational practices into specific pieces, whereas other studies provide teachers with choices of smaller facets of teaching upon which to focus. Overall, this Special Issue urges the field to consider how incremental approaches to PD for mathematics teachers might address some of the limitations of typical transformational efforts.
Innovations in Mathematics Education: Evaluation, Research and Practice
(MDPI, 2025) Rakes, Christopher R.; Ronau, Robert N.; Saderholm, Jon
This Special Issue comprises a selection of original research and evaluations relating to mathematics education innovations, including research-to-practice progressions. The Reprint begins with a comparison of technological innovation in mathematics across international education systems, continuing with an exploration of the use of technology for instruction and assessment innovation. To conclude, several instructional innovations for classroom practice and teacher professional development are proposed.
Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience
(OpenStax, 2024) Kirby, Elizabeth D.; Glenn, Melissa J.; Sandstrom, Noah J.; Williams, Christina L.
Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience aligns to the topics and objectives of introductory behavioral neuroscience courses taught in psychology, biology, neuroscience, and similar departments. This offering is intended for undergraduates with no presumed college-level science coursework, and presents the foundational principles of brain-behavior-environment interactions. In Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience, students will begin to understand how the physiology of the nervous system and the environment dictate our movements, thoughts and feelings. Students will be challenged to think about real neuroscience experiments, appreciate how neuroscience knowledge evolves over time, and consider open questions in the field. They will also be invited to learn about the people behind the science, such as through interview videos and researcher profiles.
Introduction to Community Psychology
(2020) Jason, Leonard A.; Glantsman, Olya; O'Brien, Jack F.; Ramian, Kaitlyn N.
This textbook will show you how to comprehensively analyze, investigate, and address escalating problems of economic inequality, violence, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, and racism. It will provide you with perspectives and tools to partner with community members and organizations to promote a fair and equitable allocation of resources and opportunities. Chapters are being published on a rolling basis until full publication in time for the June 2019 SCRA Biennial Conference.
Introduction to Statistics in the Psychological Sciences
(University of Missouri - St. Louis, 2021) Cote, Linda R.; Gordon, Rupa; Randell, Chrislyn E.; Schmitt, Judy; Guerra, Rudy
Introduction to Statistics in the Psychological Sciences provides an accessible introduction to the fundamentals of statistics, and hypothesis testing as need for psychology students. The textbook introduces the fundamentals of statistics, an introduction to hypothesis testing, and t Tests. Related samples, independent samples, analysis of variance, correlations, linear regressions and chi-squares are all covered along with expanded appendices with z, t, F correlation, and a Chi-Square table. The text includes key terms and exercises with answers to odd-numbered exercises. Psychology students often find statistics courses to be different from their other psychology classes. There are some distinct differences, especially involving study strategies for class success. The first difference is learning a new vocabulary—it is similar to learning a new language. Knowing the meaning of certain words will help as you are reading the material and working through the problems. Secondly, practice is critical for success; reading over the material is not enough. Statistics is a subject learned by doing, so make sure you work through any homework questions, chapter questions, and practice problems available. Statistical knowledge gives you a set of skills employable in graduate school and the workplace. Data science is a burgeoning field, and there is practical significance in learning this material. The statistics presented in this book are some of the most common ones used in research articles, and we hope by the end of this OER you’ll feel comfortable reading (and not skipping!) the results section of an article. This work is broken into 14 chapters, covering the fundamentals of statistics, and hypothesis testing.
Journalism, Media, and Artificial Intelligence: Let Us Define the Journey
(MDPI, 2025) Mehmood, Rashid
This Reprint examines the rapidly evolving relationship between journalism, media, and artificial intelligence. It brings together cutting-edge research exploring how AI is reshaping news production, investigative practices, audience engagement, governance, and ethical standards. Contributions span topics such as generative AI, algorithmic content delivery, disinformation detection, AI-assisted storytelling, and public trust in machine-authored news. This Reprint combines conceptual, methodological, and applied perspectives from authors across 12 countries, reflecting the global and interdisciplinary nature of current scholarship in this field. Structured around five key thematic domains, it also offers a synthesis of insights and proposes a framework to guide future research. This collection serves as a timely resource for researchers, practitioners, educators, and policymakers seeking to understand and shape journalism in the age of AI. It highlights both the opportunities and the responsibilities that come with integrating AI into democratic information systems.
Library Research Skills for Psychology Students
(University of Alberta, 2021) Kara, Blizzard
This tutorial is designed for undergraduate psychology students at the University of Alberta's Augustana Campus. It includes chapters on choosing a research topic and research question, identifying key concepts, searching for information, using the database PsycINFO, and citing sources in APA style.

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