D. Bob Gowin & Joseph D. Novak 
Learning How to Learn [EPUB ebook] 

At the age of twenty eight Gary was assaulted by a gang with baseball bats and a hammer, resulting in several skull fractures and severe brain damage. For nineteen months he had little awareness of h …

Originally published in 1990, this volume had two purposes. One was to shed some light on the impact that manipulativeness has on modern institutional processes. The other was to illustrate the impor …

Parenting Kids With OCD provides parents with a comprehensive understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder, its symptoms, types, and presentation in children and teens. The treatment of OCD is expl …

Bridging the gap between human-computer engineering and control engineering, Human Behavior Learning and Transfer delineates how to abstract human action and reaction skills into computational models …

The three primary papers in this special issue explore personality measurement in both directions, that is, more narrow and specific and more broad and heterogeneous. The first paper reviews research …

This book provides a unifying structure for the activities that fall under the process typically called ‘standard setting’ on tests of proficiency. Standard setting refers to the methodology used to …

Substance use continues to be a major public health problem, and the ramifications of this are manifold. For instance, at present, on a yearly basis, the total economic cost of substance misuse is li …

The development of mathematical competence — both by humans as a species over millennia and by individuals over their lifetimes — is a fascinating aspect of human cognition. This book explores when …