Reflective Practice by Bolton, Gillie E J; Bolton, Gillie E J; Bolton, Gillie E J; Clutterbuck, David Ashley; Clutterbuck, David Ashley; Kochan, Frances;

Short description:

The definitive reference resource for mentoring courses and affiliated courses in business and management, health, education, psychology, counselling and psychotherapy.

Long description:

The SAGE Handbook of Mentoring provides a scholarly, comprehensive and critical overview of mentoring theory, research and practice across the world. Internationally renowned authors map out the key historical and contemporary research, before considering modern case study examples and future directions for the field. The chapters are organised into four areas:

• The Landscape of Mentoring
• The Practice of Mentoring
• The Context of Mentoring
• Case Studies of Mentoring Around the Globe

This Handbook is a resource for mentoring academics, students and practitioners across a range of disciplines including business and management, education, health, psychology, counselling, and social work.

Table of Contents:

Volume One - Early Work
Measurement of Character - F Galton
Mental Tests and Measurement - J M Cattell
General Intelligence Objectively Determined and Measured - C Spearman
The Measurement of Opinion - L L Thurstone
The Measurement of Depression-Elation and Its Relation to a Measure of Extraversion-Introversion - H H Jasper
A Basis for Scaling Qualitative Data - L Guttman
On the Theory of Scales of Measurement - S S Stevens
Psychological Scaling without a Unit of Measurement - C H Coombs
Qualitative Measurement in the Social Sciences - P F Lazarsfeld and A H Barton
Classification, Typologies and Indices
Co-Efficient Alpha and the Internal Structure of Tests - L J Cronbach
Theory and Methods of Social Measurement - C H Coombs
Measuring Social Mobility - S J Prais
Construct Validity in Psychological Tests - L J Cronbach and P E Meehl
Note on the Measurement and Prediction of Labour Turnover - D J Bartholomew
On General Laws and the Meaning of Measurement in Psychology - G Rasch
Volume Two - The Concept of Measurement
Issues in Psychological Measurement - S S Stevens
Introduction to <i>Measurement in the Social Sciences - H M Blalock
On Specific Objectivity - G Rasch
An Attempt at Formalizing the Request for Generality and Validity of Scientific Statements
In Defense of Measurement - B F Green
Test Theory and Methods - D J Weiss and M L Davison
Quality of Life Research and Sociology - K F Schuessler and G A Fisher
Some Emerging Trends in Psychological Measurement - A Anastasi
A Fifty-Year Perspective
Measurement Scales and Statistics - J Michell
A Clash of Paradigms
Measurement - L Narens and R I Luce
The Theory of Numerical Assignments
Conventional Wisdom on Measurement - K Bollen and R Lennox
Measurement Issues in Research on Social Support and Health - K Dean et al
Recontextualizing Mental Measurement - H Goldstein
Statistics and the Theory of Measurement - D J Hand
Measurement - D J Bartholomew
Problems and Strategy
Why Are There So Few Formal Measuring Instruments in Social and Political Research? - A F Heath and J Martin
Scaling Unobservable Constructs in Social Science - D J Bartholomew
Volume Three - Methods and Applications
Multi-Dimensional Scaling by Optimizing Goodness of Fit to a Non-Metric Hypothesis - J Kruskal
The Establishment of a Psychiatric Syndrome - P A P Moran
Development of a Rating Scale for Primary Depressive Illness - M Hamilton
Foundations of Multi-Dimensional Scaling - R Beals, D H Krantz and A Tversky
Validity, Invalidity and Reliability - D R Heise and G W Bohrnstedt
A Numerical Measure for Uncertainty - D V Lindley
The National Reference Scale for Reading - R R Rentz and W L Bashan
An Application of the Rasch Model
Solving Measurement Problems with the Rasch Model - B D Wright
Relationships between the Thurstone and Rasch Approaches to Item Scaling - D Andrich
The Rasch Model, Objective Measurement, Equating and Robustness - J A Slinde and R L Linn
Measurement Scales and Statistics - J Gaito
Resurgence of an Old Misconception
Rating Scales for Affective Disorders - P Bech
Their Validity and Consistency
The Concept of Utility - P G Moore
The Measurement of Values in Surveys - D Alwin and J A Kresnick
A Comparison of Ratings and Rankings
Scoring Attitudes to Abortion - M Knott, M T Albanese and J Galbraith
A Standarized Scale to Measure Beliefs about Controlling Pain - S M Skevington
Measuring Internal Political Efficacy in the 1988 National Election Study - R G Niemi, S C Craig and F Mettei
Validation of Index Scales for Analysis of Survey Data - S Kreiner
The Symptom Index
Measuring Political Knowledge - M X Delli Carpini and S Keeler
Putting Things First
Measuring Left-Right and Libertarian-Authoritarian Values in British Elections - G A Evans, A F Heath and M Lalljee
Causal Variables, Indicator Variables and Measurement Scales - P M Fayers and D J Hand
An Example from Quality of Life
Enhancing the Validity and Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measurement in Survey Research - G King et al
Volume Four - Measurement at the population level
The early history of index numbers. - M G Kendall,
On the measurement of inequality - A B Atkinson
Notes on the measurement of inequality - P Dasgupta,A Sen And D Starrett
A comparison of measures of inequality of income distribution - D G Champernowne
The measurement of mobility - A F Shorrocks
Inequality measurement - F A Cowell and K Kuga
Measuring efficiency in the public sector - P Smith and D Mayston
The use of performance indicators in the public sector - P Smith
Quality of life assessment - D R Cox et al
Measuring social mobility - V Dardon
Evolution of clinimetric scales - F Kainiford
Axiomatic price index theory - B M Balk
The measurement of unemployment in the U. K. - D J Bartholomew
Mobility measurement re-visited - D J Bartholomew