Authors:Michael J. Kolen, Robert L. Brenna,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: statistics, social, behavioral, sciences, practices, methods, equating, scaling, linking, test
Number of Pages: 548
Published: 2004-08-25
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0387400869
ISBN-13: 9780387400860

Test equating methods are used with many standardized tests in education and psychology to ensure that scores from multiple test forms can be used interchangeably. In recent years, researchers from the education, psychology, and statistics communities have contributed to the rapidly growing statistical and psychometric methodologies used in test equating. This book provides an introduction to test equating which both discusses the most frequently used equating methodologies and covers many of the practical issues involved. This second edition expands upon the coverage of the first edition by

Author: Jan Brenna
Publisher: August House
Keywords: olds, year, five, time, treasured
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1990-11-25
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0874835011
ISBN-13: 9780874835014

Brennan has created a handbook of activities and pastimes for parents to enjoy with their children. This book devotes one chapter to each month of the year, offering activities, recipes, rhymes, readings, and games that are different, yet uncomplicated. Any parent can share them with materials they have on hand.

Author: Jan Brenna
Publisher: August House
Keywords: toddler, time, treasured
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-10-25
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 087483127X
ISBN-13: 9780874831276

Treasured Time with Your Toddler is a handbook of activities for parents of two- and three-year-olds. For four weeks of each month, Jan Brennan presents songs and nursery rhymes to sing, stories and books to read, simple foods to prepare, and games, crafts, or explorations to do together. Advertising in women’s and parent’s magazines.

Author: Maeve Brenna
Publisher: Counterpoint
Keywords: visitor
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1582431612
ISBN-13: 9781582431611

New Yorker writer Maeve Brennan delivered a posthumous one-two with her biting collections The Springs of Affection and The Rose Garden. Now comes The Visitor, a previously unpublished novella written in the 1940s. In Brennan’s stories, something quietly horrid has always just happened, or is just about to happen, or both. In The Visitor, it seems to be both. Twenty-two-year-old Anastasia King returns to Dublin after living with her mother in Paris for the past six years. The two left behind Anastasia’s father and his fierce old mother. It is to this scary granny that Anastasia ret

Author: Allison Brenna
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: novel, prey
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345480236
ISBN-13: 9780345480231

First, she imagined it. Then a killer made it real.Rowan Smith is living in a borrowed Malibu beach house while her bestselling novel is made into a Hollywood movie. A former FBI agent with a haunted past, Rowan thinks she has outrun her demons. But fiction and reality collide when a dismembered body is found in Colorado: the real-life victim had the same name, occupation, and looks as a character in Rowan’s novel. By the time the FBI, the LAPD, and her own private bodyguard gather around her, another person is killed–again, the murder ripped from the pages of Rowan’s book.In the company

Author: Allison Brenna
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: novel, hunt
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-01-31
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345480244
ISBN-13: 9780345480248

Touched by a killer, she feels the fire of revenge.Twelve years ago, Miranda Moore miraculously survived the torture of a serial killer who was never caught. Since then, Miranda, a former FBI trainee and now a member of a local search-and-rescue squad, has witnessed with horror the recovery of the mutilated bodies of seven young women, all victims of her tormentor, known as The Butcher. When another beautiful Montana college student goes missing, the Feds get involved, and an agent, a man Miranda once trusted with her heart, arrives to take over the investigation–forcing her toward a painful

Author: Brenna Stull
Publisher: New Hope Publishers - Arise
Keywords: allstar, team, family, organizing, mom, strategies, coach
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-03-14
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1596690224
ISBN-13: 9781596690226

Coach Mom brings humor and hope to mothers overwhelmed with all they have to handle. Filled with heartwarming stories, Scripture, practical tips, and tools for home organization, this book helps moms who feel out of control find ways to be in control so their families can function like the Dream Team that they are. Author Brenna Stull offers simple ways to make small daily steps toward change. Her encouragement guides each mom to see that her family can be characterized by a joyful, intentional home life.