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Effective Phrases For Performance Appraisals: A Guide to Successful Evaluations (Neal, Effective Phrases for ...
James E. Neal
Neal Publications, 2006
Excellent Management Tool
I have an older edition (early 80's) that I have used for years to write my own personal self-evaluations and development plans. I used it last year for my staff and shared with my fellow managers, who loved it. This year I checked to see if it was still in print and ...
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Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods
Michael Quinn Patton
Sage Publications, Inc, 2001
In-depth details of qualitative research explained with ease
Patton describes qualitative research design and data collection methods in a way that even the novice researcher can easily understand and utilize.
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Authentic Assessment for English Language Learners: Practical Approaches for Teachers
J. Michael O'Malley, Lorraine Valdez Pierce
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1996
The Best Assessment Book I've Seen
I bought this for an ESL Assessment class at the graduate level. I also teach ESL at a university, and this book comes in very handy, both in theory and in practice. I especially like the rubrics you give to students so they can assess their own strengths and ...
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Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business
Wayne W. Eckerson
Wiley, 2005
How to use information to energize your goals and strategy.
Modern corporations collect vast amounts of data. Unfortunately, they too often mistake having massive amounts of data for having useful and actionable information. They are not the same thing. Even when a company knows how to transform data into usable information, ...
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Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on ...
Hervé This
Columbia University Press, 2005
For the scientist-cook
After reading the Italian translation a coupe of years ago, I was so much hoping for an English translation, and here it is; and it's brilliant! It's quite one thing to follow recipes and follow instructions, and quite another to understand at a physico-chemical level ...
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long Short Story
David Einhorn
Wiley, 2008
The Einhorn v ALD saga
This is brief history of the dispute between David Einhorn, founder of Greenlight Capital, and Allied Capital (stock ticker ALD). Mr. Einhorn details his research into ALD that culminated in a speech he gave at a charity event. Since the speech ALD has been attacking ...
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Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Review
I am taking a Health Care Management Strategy class and this book was recommended by our professor.
Very well thought and comprehensive book.
Some comclusions can be challenged, but the book bringing a new look on Health Care and provide solutions for ...
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The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political ...
Lawrence Solomon
Richard Vigilante Books, 2008
Climate Realism Indeed
Lawrence Solomon is a columnist with the National Post of Toronto, author of other books, environmentalist and activist. In the latter role Solomon strives to save the world's rain forests and prevent nuclear power expansion. He works for an environmental group called ...
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The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
E. Fuller Torrey
W. W. Norton, 2008
Long ovedue and too nice...
This author is not kidding...he really tells it as it is, but with a light touch that may miss the mark. State legislators need to be slammed up side the head to get their attention and I fear he is a little too politically correct. As the father of a middle-aged ...
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Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions
Tim Ash
Sybex, 2008
Praxis Oriented and Hands-On, No Blah Blah
The book was written by Tim Ash of SiteTuners.com, a web analytics and site optimization service who does landing page optimization among other things for his living.
It is a real-world and practical guide to landing page testing and optimization without any fluff. ...
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Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education ...
Thomas A. Angelo, K. Patricia Cross
Jossey-Bass, 1993
CATs for the classroom
The text was used in a course through UW Stout and it is a very good resource for methods that can be used to assess learners progress towards a goal. Great tool to have on the bookshelf!
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Classroom Assessment & Grading That Work
Robert J. Marzano
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2006
Broad concepts, and specific suggestions
I got a great deal out of this book. Marzano's books are always very research based (a plus if you ask me) so they're nto exactly beach reading. This book, in particular, mostly describes a specific grading method that is similar to CBM, that needs to be implemented ...
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System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed
Kerrie Meyler, Cameron Fuller, ...
Sams, 2008
The standard bearer for Operations Manager References
This is the most comprehensive OpsMgr book on the market. This book contains more real world information than the Microsoft white papers and runs circles around the Mastering Operations Manager offering.
Operations Manager Unleashed offers excellent guidance for ...
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The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization (J-B Leader to Leader ...
Peter F. Drucker
Jossey-Bass, 2008
Planning Is Not an Event
The first edition of Peter Drucker's self-assessment tool for organizations arrived in 1993 and introduced these five key questions: 1) What is our mission? 2) Who is our customer? 3) What does the customer value? 4) What are our results? and 5) What is our plan?
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Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Jose L. Galvan
Pyrczak Publishing, 2005
Excellent resource for graduate students
This book is a step-by-step guide to the process of writing literature reviews. It is very thorough and takes nothing for granted. It is an excellent book that will assist students in turning out literature reviews that will earn them A's in graduate school programs.
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