Authors:Ronald K. Hambleton, H. Swaminathan,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: education, human, services, evaluation, applications, response, theory, principles, item
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1984-12-31
List price: $134.00
ISBN-10: 0898380650
ISBN-13: 9780898380651

Authors:Wim J. van der Linden, Ronald K. Hambleton,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: theory, response, item, modern, handbook
Number of Pages: 510
Published: 1996-11-15
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0387946616
ISBN-13: 9780387946610

Item response theory has become an essential component in the toolkit of every researcher in the behavioral sciences. It provides a powerful means to study individual responses to a variety of stimuli, and the methodology has been extended and developed to cover many different models of interaction. This volume presents a wide-ranging handbook to item response theory - and its applications to educational and psychological testing. It will serve as both an introduction to the subject and also as a comprehensive reference volume for practitioners and researchers. It is organized into six major s

Author: Chris Hambleton
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Keywords: time, endeavor
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-07-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1432725939
ISBN-13: 9781432725938

An Unexpected AdventureFive years after the Challenger disaster, NASA launched their newest space shuttle, Endeavor, in a dramatic return to space. But several moments after lift-off, Endeavor exploded over the ocean, taking the lives of all its crew members, and killing the United States’ space program.It’s 2009, seventeen years after the Endeavor tragedy in 1992, and NASA has been made part of the Department of Defense. America’s civilian space program has been permanently discontinued for over fifteen years.Daniel Marks, the Chief Programmer at a research facility in New M

Author: Chris Hambleton
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: cell
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 2010-06-22
List price: $20.99
ISBN-10: 1609573528
ISBN-13: 9781609573522

Years after the financial crash of 2008, America stumbles from crisis to crisis and continues to slog through the mire of the Great Recession. National healthcare is finally a reality, but has brought with it unintended consequences for the sick, the unwanted, and the growing ranks of the elderly. Political assassinations and bombings have become all too common in the nation’s capital. Elected officials rarely leave the safety of the Green Zone that surrounds the Capitol Complex. America’s Day of Reckoning - Debt Day - when the U.S. Treasury must borrow just to make the interest

Authors:Laura Hambleton,  Manolo Santo,
Publisher: Milet Publishing
Keywords: chameleon, series, portuguese, english, swims
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1840594411
ISBN-13: 9781840594416

Splash, swoosh! Chameleon learns to swim with the help of his friend Salamander. In English and 12 bilingual editions.

Authors:Hans U. Boden, Ian Hambleton, Andrew J. Nicas, B. Dou
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: institute, communications, fields, manifolds, topology, geometry
Number of Pages: 347
Published: 2005-12-06
List price: $114.00
ISBN-10: 0821837249
ISBN-13: 9780821837245

This book contains expository papers that give an up-to-date account of recent developments and open problems in the geometry and topology of manifolds, along with several research articles that present new results appearing in published form for the first time. The unifying theme is the problem of understanding manifolds in low dimensions, notably in dimensions three and four, and the techniques include algebraic topology, surgery theory, Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten gauge theory, Heegaard Floer homology, contact and symplectic geometry, and Gromov-Witten invariants. The articles collected fo

Authors:Clyde M. Creveling, Lynne Hambleton, Burke McCarthy,
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Keywords: six, marketing, sigma, hall, innovation, series, prentice, growth, leaders, processes, overview, executives, managers
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-02-27
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 013199008X
ISBN-13: 9780131990081

Nearly half of the top one hundred Fortune 500 companies use Six Sigma methodology in some part of their business. These companies have been among the top one hundred for five or more years and consistently report higher revenue and significantly higher profits than competitors. This underscores the impact on the cost side. Now the focus moves to revenue growth. Six Sigma consultant Clyde M. Creveling’s Design for Six Sigma in Technology and Product Development is the standard guide for product commercialization and manufacturing support engineers who want to apply Six Sigma methodology