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Assessment Framework for People-Centred Solutions to Carbon Neutrality: A Comprehensive List of Case Studies and Social Innovation Indicators at Urban Level (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)

This open access book presents a catalogue of over one thousand indicators which can be used by cities' public administrators to monitor and evaluate social innovation action plans to support people-centred, collaborative or co-designed solutions to lower carbon emissions. Indicators are clustered according to a framework of social innovation solutions for climate neutrality at city level, developed by merging top-down academic knowledge with bottom-up pragmatic case studies. There is currently limited guidance on how to embed social innovations in their cities’ action plans with the aim of reaching climate neutrality, and on how to assess the progress and impacts of such people-centred projects in cities. The book addresses this gap and is thus relevant for scholars in the field of policy-making and design, as well as cities’ transition teams, policymakers and consultants. Based on the work developed within the EU-funded project NetZeroCities, intervention logics are provided for each of the ten categories of action, with related indicators clustered by category and evaluation criteria (effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, replicability, and scalability). Guidelines to implement the framework support city administrators in defining steps they need to follow to apply the indicators to their local case, making social innovation a crucial lever for accelerating systemic transformation.

Assessment in Educational Therapy

Assessment in Educational Therapy offers essential grounding, skills, and ethical approaches for understanding and conducting assessments in the context of educational therapy. Six clear, straightforward chapters guide graduate students and trainees of the field to use scores, observation, and hypothesis testing to create strengths-based assessments and intervention strategies that can be delivered orally or in written reports. The book is the first to describe and critique all the standardized assessment instruments that qualified educational therapists can use to measure skills in reading, written expression, mathematics, and processing. Real-world case studies, practical takeaways of key concepts, resources for self-study, reflective questions, and other readers’ tools enliven this comprehensive yet accessible reference.

Assessment in Educational Therapy

Assessment in Educational Therapy offers essential grounding, skills, and ethical approaches for understanding and conducting assessments in the context of educational therapy. Six clear, straightforward chapters guide graduate students and trainees of the field to use scores, observation, and hypothesis testing to create strengths-based assessments and intervention strategies that can be delivered orally or in written reports. The book is the first to describe and critique all the standardized assessment instruments that qualified educational therapists can use to measure skills in reading, written expression, mathematics, and processing. Real-world case studies, practical takeaways of key concepts, resources for self-study, reflective questions, and other readers’ tools enliven this comprehensive yet accessible reference.

Assessment In Social Work (PDF)

Assessment is a vital social work task. This popular text gives a clear overview of the complex issues it raises and the essential theory professionals need to conduct meaningful and effective assessments. The third edition includes two brand new chapters on assessment in children's and adults' services and an attractive new design.

Assessment Matters in Higher Education (UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Higher Education OUP)

Assessment really does matter in higher education. Internationally, academics - and those who support them - are seeking better ways to assess students, recognizing that diverse methods are available which may solve many of the problems associated with the evaluation of learning.Assessment Matters in Higher Education provides both theoretical perspectives and pragmatic advice on how to conduct effective assessment. It draws clearly on both relevant research and on its contributors' practical first hand experience (warts and all!). It asks, for example:how can assessment methods best become an integral part of learning?what strategies can be used to make assessment fairer, more consistent and more efficient?how effective are innovative approaches to assessment, and in what contexts do they prosper?to what extent can students become involved in their own assessment?how can we best assess learning in professional practice contexts?This is an important resource for all academics and academic managers involved in assessing their students.

The Assessment of German Cultural Landscapes: Evidence from Three Regions Located in the Metropolitan Area of Hamburg (RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft)

Jessica Matloch examines the importance of regional cultural landscape for their residents using the approach of willingness to pay. She identifies that almost each resident of every region prefers water landscapes. Furthermore, landscape perception is often influenced by education and by the resident’s relationship with nature. The impact of the relationship to the region differs between regions and resident groups. Regarding the involvement in or for the landscape, the results suggest that specific groups of residents are more willing to volunteer in and for regional landscapes than others. The analyses illustrate that the region is used the most to relax and the least for cultural purposes.

The Assessment of L2 Written English across the MENA Region: A Synthesis of Practice

This edited book brings together contributions from different educational contexts across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in order to explore how L2 English writing is assessed. Across seven MENA countries, the book covers aspects of practice including: task design and curriculum alignment, test (re)development, rubric design, the subjective decision making that underpins assessing students’ writing and feedback provision, learner performance and how research methods help shed light on initiatives to improve student writing. In such coverage, chapter authors provide concrete evidence of how assessment practice is governed by their unique context, yet also influenced by international standards, trends and resources. This book will be of interest to second language teachers, assessors and programme developers as well as test designers and evaluators.

Assessment Through Interviewing

This edition retains much of the material of the first edition, but includes extended material on planning for the interview, and on the conduct of the interview, aimed at making its coverage of the basic concepts more comprehensive. Use of groups for individual assessment and development, particularly in human relations training contexts, has increased immeasurably in the last decade, and this has necessitated a more extensive treatment of the theory and practice of group dynamics; the use of counselling interviews receives more attention in this edition, in recognition of recent advances in the use of the interview therapeutically

Assessments in der Palliativausbildung und -versorgung: Eine psychometrische Instrumententestung (Palliative Care und Forschung)

Die Steuerung der Patientenbehandlung in der Palliativversorgung erfolgt durch Assessmentinstrumente. Sie erfassen den Zustand des Patienten, seine Symptome, Bedürfnisse und erleichtern die weitere Planung. Eine gelungene Verwendung derartiger Instrumente beinhaltet, dass sie gültig, sensibel und zuverlässig sind. Diesem Nachweis dient die Instrumententestung. Am Beispiel von Assessments der Palliativversorgung wird in diesem Band eine solche Testung vorgeführt, erläutert und reflektiert.

Assessments meistern: Wie bereite ich mich auf ein Assessment vor? (essentials)

Dieses Essential zeigt Ihnen, was Sie in einem Assessment erwartet und wie Sie sich darauf vorbereiten können. Zu diesem Zweck wird dargestellt, wie ein Assessment typischerweise aufgebaut ist, mit welchen Aufgaben und Übungen Sie konfrontiert sein werden und wie Sie diese am besten meistern können. Darüber hinaus erhalten Sie Anregungen, wie Sie mithilfe von klaren Zielformulierungen und einer „bewussten Haltung“ während des Assessments Ihr Bestes geben und Ihre Kompetenzen unter Beweis stellen können.

An Asset-Based Approach to Latino Education in the United States: Understanding Gaps and Advances (Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity)

Challenging perspectives that often characterize Latinos as ‘at-risk,’ this book takes an ‘asset’ approach, highlighting the favorable linguistic, cognitive, education, and cultural assets Latino children bring to educational settings. An Asset-Based Approach to Latino Education in the United States addresses the increasingly important challenge and opportunity of educating the linguistic and cultural diversity of the growing population of Latino students. The book confronts the educational debate regarding effective instructional practices for Latinos, bilingual education, immigration, and assimilation.

An Asset-Based Approach to Latino Education in the United States: Understanding Gaps and Advances (Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity)

Challenging perspectives that often characterize Latinos as ‘at-risk,’ this book takes an ‘asset’ approach, highlighting the favorable linguistic, cognitive, education, and cultural assets Latino children bring to educational settings. An Asset-Based Approach to Latino Education in the United States addresses the increasingly important challenge and opportunity of educating the linguistic and cultural diversity of the growing population of Latino students. The book confronts the educational debate regarding effective instructional practices for Latinos, bilingual education, immigration, and assimilation.

Asset-Building Policies and Innovations in Asia (Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China)

Asia has long been a testing ground for efforts to augment financial and social security by developing assets that may support individuals and households and contribute to long-term social development. Rapid growth in the number and breadth of asset-based social policies has prompted Asian scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to share lessons from current efforts and chart future directions. This book offers a unique collection of macro- and micro-level analyses on asset-based social development and compares and contrasts national social policies across the Asia Pacific region. Many asset-building policies and programmes have been undertaken in Asia, and innovative proposals continue to emerge. The contributions in this book present and assess this broad, often nuanced, and evolving landscape, and offer an insightful analysis of the evolution of asset-building policies, innovative programmes in rural populations, asset-based interventions to facilitate the development and well-being of children, as well as case studies on new, ground-breaking asset-building projects. Asset-Building Policies and Innovation in Asia will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Asian social policy, social welfare, social development and social work.

Asset-Building Policies and Innovations in Asia (Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China)

Asia has long been a testing ground for efforts to augment financial and social security by developing assets that may support individuals and households and contribute to long-term social development. Rapid growth in the number and breadth of asset-based social policies has prompted Asian scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to share lessons from current efforts and chart future directions. This book offers a unique collection of macro- and micro-level analyses on asset-based social development and compares and contrasts national social policies across the Asia Pacific region. Many asset-building policies and programmes have been undertaken in Asia, and innovative proposals continue to emerge. The contributions in this book present and assess this broad, often nuanced, and evolving landscape, and offer an insightful analysis of the evolution of asset-building policies, innovative programmes in rural populations, asset-based interventions to facilitate the development and well-being of children, as well as case studies on new, ground-breaking asset-building projects. Asset-Building Policies and Innovation in Asia will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Asian social policy, social welfare, social development and social work.

Asset Management in the Social Rented Sector: Policy and Practice in Europe and Australia

This book fills an important gap in housing research, covering the impact of recent changes in housing policies and markets on the development of state-of-the-art asset management within the social rented sector in various countries.

The Assets Perspective: The Rise of Asset Building and its Impact on Social Policy

The economy's struggles to overcome the lingering effects of the Great Recession presented unique but essential questions.The book considers a full range of data which considers how this recent experience has impacted households, providing a thorough and contemporary treatment of how the assets perspective has prompted changes within social policy.

The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt

From the international bestselling expert on dealing with assholes'With cutting-edge research and real-life examples that are thought-provoking and often hilarious, thisis an indispensable resource'Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project'At last someone has provided clear steps for rejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives. Better still, that someone is the great Bob Sutton, which ensures that the information is useful, evidence-based, and fun to read'Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-Suasion'If only Bob Sutton's book had been available to help me deal with the full complement of 1st-class assholes I've encountered in my 50-year professional life. No names shall be mentioned'Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of ExcellenceBeing around assholes, whether at work or elsewhere, can damage performance and affect wellbeing: having one asshole in a team has been shown to reduce performance by 30 to 40%. And social media has only given rise to further incivility -- 40% of people have experienced harassment online.In The Asshole Survival Guide, Stanford professor Robert Sutton offers practical advice on identifying and tackling any kind of asshole -- based on research into groups from uncivil civil servants to French bus drivers, and 8,000 emails that he has received on asshole behaviour.With expertise and humour, he provides a cogent and methodical game-plan. First, he sets out the asshole audit, to find out what kind of asshole needs dealing with, and asshole detection strategies. Then he reveals field-tested, sometimes surprising techniques, from asshole avoidance and asshole taxes to mind-tricks and the art of love bombing. Finally, he explains the dangers of asshole blindness -- when the problem might be yours truly.Readers will learn how to handle assholes - in the workplace and beyond - once and for all!

Assimilation And Empire: Uniformity In French And British Colonies, 1541-1954

Assimilation was an ideology central to European expansion and colonisation, an ideology which legitimised colonisation for centuries. Assimilation and Empire shows that the aspiration for assimilation was not only driven by materialistic reasons, but was also motivated by ideas. The engine of assimilation was found in the combination of two powerful ideas: the European philosophical conception of human perfectibility and the idea of the modern state. Europeans wanted to create, in their empires, political and cultural forms they valued and wanted to realise in their own societies, but which did not yet exist. Saliha Belmessous examines three imperial experiments - seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New France, nineteenth-century British Australia, and nineteenth and twentieth-century French Algeria - and reveals the complex inter-relationship between policies of assimilation, which were driven by a desire for perfection and universality, and the greatest challenge to those policies, discourses of race, which were based upon perceptions of difference. Neither colonised nor European peoples themselves were able to conform to the ideals given as the object of assimilation. Yet, the deep links between assimilation and empire remained because at no point since the sixteenth century has the utopian project of perfection - articulated through the progressive theory of history - been placed seriously in question. The failure of assimilation pursued through empire, for both colonised and coloniser, reveals the futility of the historical pursuit of perfection.

Assimilation oder Segregation?: Anpassungsprozesse von Einwanderern in Deutschland

Assisted Conception: Research, Ethics and Law (Routledge Revivals)

This title was first published in 2003. Assisted conception is an area where it often seems that all the ethical and legal issues have been covered and then technology advances and the discussions start all over again. The book is an anthology of papers presented during a project looking at thearaputic research in assisted conception (TRAC). It is divided into three areas addressing research, ethics and law. Each chapter begins with an overview of the issues, with the aim being to present new perspectives rather than covering old ground. The European Convention on Human rights and Biomedicine came into force on December 1, 1999. The Convention allows thearaputic research and research on spare embryos but forbid fundamental research, which may be essential to the safe development of new techniques. This also means that people may become part of an experimental process without their consent. The project brings together clinicians, embryologists, lawyers and ethicists to ascertain whether there might be a risk of infertility patients being exposed to insufficiently tested procedures and to see if there is a need for fundamental research in this area. It also looks at the legislative safeguards that exist and whether a European standard for treatment should be set.

Assisted Conception: Research, Ethics and Law (Routledge Revivals)

This title was first published in 2003. Assisted conception is an area where it often seems that all the ethical and legal issues have been covered and then technology advances and the discussions start all over again. The book is an anthology of papers presented during a project looking at thearaputic research in assisted conception (TRAC). It is divided into three areas addressing research, ethics and law. Each chapter begins with an overview of the issues, with the aim being to present new perspectives rather than covering old ground. The European Convention on Human rights and Biomedicine came into force on December 1, 1999. The Convention allows thearaputic research and research on spare embryos but forbid fundamental research, which may be essential to the safe development of new techniques. This also means that people may become part of an experimental process without their consent. The project brings together clinicians, embryologists, lawyers and ethicists to ascertain whether there might be a risk of infertility patients being exposed to insufficiently tested procedures and to see if there is a need for fundamental research in this area. It also looks at the legislative safeguards that exist and whether a European standard for treatment should be set.

Assistenzinteraktionen: Zur Interaktionsordnung in der persönlichen Assistenz körperbehinderter Menschen

Das Modell der „Persönlichen Assistenz“ soll dazu beitragen, die Selbstbestimmtheit von Menschen mit körperlichen Behinderungen zu ermöglichen. Lakshmi S. Kotsch geht der Frage nach, welche Konsequenzen das Selbstbestimmungspostulat für die Interaktionen in den davon betroffenen Hilfebeziehungen hat. Die videographisch angelegte Studie zeigt, dass sich Assistenzinteraktionen tatsächlich nach den Relevanzen der Assistenznehmer richten und insofern deren „Selbstbestimmtheit“ (im Verständnis der Assistenzidee) ermöglichen. Der Blick auf die Details von Assistenzinteraktionen macht aber auch deutlich, dass der Spielraum, die einzelnen Interaktionen zu gestalten, wesentlich größer ist, als es das Assistenzmodell konzeptionell vorsieht.

Assistiert Altern: Die Entwicklung digitaler Technologien für und mit älteren Menschen (Altern & Gesellschaft)

Digitale Assistenztechnologien sollen ältere Menschen unterstützen, auch bei altersbedingten Einschränkungen möglichst lange selbstbestimmt leben zu können. Wie aber werden diese Technologien entwickelt? Welche Vorstellungen von Alter(n) spielen dabei eine Rolle? Wie werden ältere Menschen in die Technikentwicklung eingebunden? Und welche Ziele verfolgen Politik, Technikentwickler*innen und Gesellschaft mit der Entwicklung digitaler Asssistenztechnologien? Das Buch gibt anhand einer ethnographischen Studie Antworten auf diese Fragen und zeigt auf, welche Voraussetzungen in Forschung und Entwicklung geschaffen werden müssen, damit digitale Technologien den Bedürfnissen älterer Menschen entsprechen und sie in ihrem Alltag unterstützen.

Assistive Gesellschaft: Multidisziplinäre Erkundungen zur Sozialform „Assistenz“ (Öffentliche Wissenschaft und gesellschaftlicher Wandel)

Die Beiträge des Buches befassen sich mit der Frage, was ‚Gesellschaft‘ bedeutet, wenn nahezu alle Lebensbereiche assistiert werden. Ob Blindenhund, Butler oder Assistent der Geschäftsführung, Herzschrittmacher oder Navigationssystem, Pflegeroboter oder Ambient Assisted Living - wir werden assistiert von anderen Personen und Lebewesen, und immer häufiger auch von Technologien und Artefakten. Diesen Assistenten kommt eine spezifische und neue Rolle zu: sie beschützen, sie helfen, sie steuern uns. Prozesse der Assistierung in Lebens- und Arbeitswelt werden oft im Einklang mit sich steigernden Kompensations- und Effizienzversprechen vorangetrieben. Aber wie gestaltet sich Assistenz konkret? Welche Wechselwirkungen entstehen zwischen den beteiligten Instanzen? Und welche gesellschaftlichen Dynamiken und unbeabsichtigten Folgen sind damit verbunden? Darauf versucht der Sammelband Antworten zu geben.

Assistive Technologies for the Interaction of the Elderly: The Development of a Communication Device for the Elderly with Complementing Illustrations and Examples (Advanced Technologies and Societal Change)

This book presents a wealth of insights and new conceptualizations for the development of Assistive Technologies for the Interaction of the Elderly. The book arranges the chapters according to important aspects of maximizing the use value in innovation projects. Every chapter will include an executive summary reporting the main results, a storyline using everyday language, and scientific excursions, wherever useful. The book shows how an innovation project should be structured towards maximum use value and how a project should be structured in order to make a difference. It describes the useful categorization of the large group of the elderly to maximize the focus of the innovation and demonstrates the user involvement into innovation activities. Of course, the assessment of such innovative projects is discussed as well as the “lessons learned”. The book also explores the business opportunities and the financial evaluation of aspects of assistive technology.