Product Description: This volume provides in-depth coverage of a key piece of today's human resource selection technology--the viability of alternatives to paper and pencil multiple-choice selection tests. Each chapter of this edited volume presents an intensive examination of a key "alternative to multiple-choice testing...read more

Product Description: The mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is to establish "high and rigorous standards for what teachers should know and be able to do, to certify teachers who meet those standards, and to advance other education reforms for the purpose of improving student learning in American schools...read more

Product Description: It is sadly true that most of the way we teach and learn is uninformed by laboratory findings in human cognition. Although researchers have made considerable progress in understanding the cognitive and social variables that mediate in the learning process, very little of this basic knowledge has been translated into practice, many research questions that are critically important for directing educational reform remain unanswered, and few in the scientific community have been actively involved in the efforts to reform higher education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Organization research has little value if its findings have no chance of being used. The authors isolate and discuss key issues in conceptualizing and carrying out research that is intended to be of practical help. They offer numerous ideas and exercises and the fully developed case of a research project in which hoped-for implementation did not happen.