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The publication deals with instruments that can be used to transition municipalities to a circular economy. It identifies possible information, motivation and voluntary instruments, which can be used particularly by representatives of municipalities to support citizens to environmentally friendly behavior, waste prevention and use of other available means of circular economy.

Environmental economics --- circular economy --- instruments --- municipaties --- Micro-Economics --- Governance --- Economic policy --- Methodology and research technology

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The publication deals with the topic of measuring metacognition, with special emphasis on a specific group of intellectually gifted children. It briefly presents the construct of metacognition itself, its relation to intellectual giftedness, together with a taxonomy of metacognitive phenomena. Next, the most important methods developed to assess metacognition are discussed and critically appraised. The monography covers both the methods, in which the data are registered during the execution of the stimulus task (on-line methods), and the methods, where the data are recorded with some time lag (off-line methods). The most extensive part of the publication is devoted to the topic of various measures, used to express the level of metacognitive monitoring.

Cognition & cognitive psychology --- metacognition --- giftedness --- intelligence --- measurement --- methods --- Education --- School education --- Cognitive Psychology --- Methodology and research technology --- Pedagogy

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In recent years, company costs associated with sales promotion activities have continued to rise in developed economies, and yet many studies show that such sales promotion activities are very often unprofitable, and in many cases even result in losses. One cause of this undesirable phenomenon may be inadequate analytical tools. The use of adequate analytical tools would make it possible to reliably measure the effectiveness of sales promotion activities. The most commonly used analytical tools often lead to biases when estimating the effectiveness of promotion activities. This is because these tools cannot take into account a number of factors which change over time, may affect the profitability indicators and are not controlled when performing an estimate with the common tools. The monograph offers a new approach to estimating baseline sales (i.e. the sales figures as they would be if sales promotion activity had not taken place) using causal analysis methods. The suggested approach removes the bias of an estimator resulting from the change of factors over time, while at the same time it is simple enough to be implemented in common business practice. The monograph also presents the methods of causal analysis. Despite their potential to successfully deal with a number of marketing and management issues, these methods are rarely used, either in the Czech Republic or internationally.

Sales & marketing --- causal analysis --- propensity scores --- sales promotion --- baseline sales --- Business Economy / Management --- Methodology and research technology --- Accounting - Business Administration --- Marketing / Advertising

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The book serves as an introduction into pedagogical evaluation and is intended for (future) teachers of pre-primary, primary and secondary schools. The issue of pedagogical evaluation is introduced in the context of the quality of education. Pedagogical evaluation is presented as a research approach and as a tool for practitioners. Two forms of evaluation are discussed: internal evaluation and external evaluation. In the second part of the book, various evaluation instruments are presented.

Education --- evaluation instruments --- quality of education --- evaluation in education --- teacher --- Preschool education --- School education --- Educational Psychology --- Psychology of Self --- Methodology and research technology --- Evaluation research --- Pedagogy

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The theoretical part describes the bases for the communication process and its disruption in a broader context, focusing on school age and reflection in the current and educational communication situation. The research part offers the results of the survey, which results from long-term cooperation with two primary schools of inclusive type, in which pupils with different forms of special educational needs are educated. In these schools, precisely, in these classrooms in which pupils with impaired communication ability were educated, the activities aimed at strengthening communicative competence and social ties were carried out at regular intervals during one school year.

Teaching of specific groups & persons with special educational needs --- Inclusive school --- education --- communication --- communication ability --- impaired communication ability --- specific language impairment --- special educational needs --- communication support --- Education --- School education --- Methodology and research technology --- Inclusive Education / Inclusion --- Pedagogy