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A useful guide to best practice including reviews of the latest and most helpful tests available. In Part One, contributors discuss the theory of reading assessment including issues such as screening, legal aspects, memory and visual problems, computer based assessment and the dyslexias. Part Two contains the review section where experts give comprehensive reviews of named tests.
In times of rapid change experience is no longer a sufficient guide to practice. Taking the principles of evidence-based medicine this is the first guide to evidence-based management. It will help managers and clinicians to make a difference to their organisation. Illustrated with case studies designed for 'the reader in a hurry' the clear layout of this practical guide is based on a questioning approach of Why? When? Where? How? and Who? which demonstrates how to apply the best evidence in decision making and in assessing performance. Obstacles to practising evidence-based management in healthcare are described with explanations of how to overcome them. Health managers and clinicians with managerial responsibilities will find this book an essential guide. Leaders in health service organisations public health doctors and public sector managers will find it of great benefit in their work.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
In this groundbreaking book, Chuck Russell shows you the only way to hire and retain employees in today's competitive environment -- by using testing and assessments to ensure you hire the person that fits the job.
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This second edition of the foundational textbook An Introduction to Applied Linguistics provides a state-of-the-art account of contemporary applied linguistics. The kinds of language problems of interest to applied linguists are discussed and a distinction drawn between the different research approach taken by theoretical linguists and by applied linguists to what seem to be the same problems. Professor Davies describes a variety of projects which illustrate the interests of the field and highlight the marriage it offers between practical experience and theoretical understanding. The increasing emphasis of applied linguistics on ethicality is linked to the growth of professionalism and to the concern for accountability, manifested in the widening emphasis on critical stances. This, Davies argues, is at its most acute in the tension between giving advice as the outcome of research and taking political action in order to change a situation which, it is claimed, needs ameliorisation. This dilemma is not confined to applied linguistics and may now be endemic in the applied disciplines.
Filling an important gap in the professional literature relating to child psychiatric units' work with disturbed children in the United Kingdom, this book provides detailed accounts and critical appraisals of practice and reviews relevant literature. The work of one in-patient unit the Lowit Unit, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital is highlighted through chapters written by members of the multi-discopinary network. Insights for the reader are provided by the presentation of case studies. The report of a unique descriptive study, carried out by one of the editors, is published for the first time in this volume. In addition, an up-to-date survey of in-patient units in the United Kingdom is included. The effects on units of recent changes in the organisation of health services, and the impact of recent judicial rulings and legislation, such as the Children Act, are discussed. In providing analyses of the work of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers and speech therapists, the book points towards future directions for professionals working in the field.