At the time of the literature review, there was little
empirical research about how these new technologies and media could / would impact young children's lives.
The author conducts
empirical research about legal education; student debt; and law students, law schools and lawyers per capita (of which he keeps an archive).
She developed a searchable database, the Diversity in Education Archive, which holds almost 600 detailed summaries of
empirical research about the relationship between school racial and socioeconomic composition and school outcomes.
The most recent critique of our efforts, from Dan Butin of Gettysburg College, calls me «disingenuous» for distinguishing
empirical research about learning to read from opinions of professors who teach foundations courses.
Does
the empirical research about the growth and development of children and adolescents reach the vast majority of parents?
Not exact matches
The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical
research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad
empirical news
about family breakup.
But I do realize that the atheist rant is pointless, especially where it tries to argue from an
empirical / scientific standpoint because spirituality isn't
about trying to figure things out from the outside in through
research and data collection — it's when we see things from the inside out and the only valid instrument of measurement is our own being.
Survey
research in particular, through the work of Gerhard Lenski, Joseph Fichter, Charles Glock, Rodney Stark, and others, was beginning to shape the ways in which sociologists thought
about religion, on the one hand, while on the other hand Parsonian theories, speculative and comparative work in the classical tradition, and some of the newer perspectives of phenomenology posed challenges to
empirical positivism.
The AAP's media kit includes extensive information
about age - specific suggestions for all stages of development and
empirical research on the effects of screen time and types of programming (e.g. violence).
She uses
empirical research conducted in Bolivia, Sweden, the US, India, and Canada to explore and theorize shifting conditions and strategies of social change, including the criminalization of dissent, new approaches to law by social movements, and broader theoretical questions
about the transformative potential of law.
But considerable recent
research aimed at broadening this
empirical base has revealed that children's knowledge
about living things and the relations among them is sculpted by the cultural and environmental contexts in which they are raised.
«So far, there's been a lot of speculation
about how we might respond to this kind of news, but until now, almost no systematic
empirical research.»
He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of
empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime»,
about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.
«One thing that has changed is the level of
empirical evidence that the scientific community can generate
about its own
research activity.
As it turns out, despite the initial skepticism
about the importance of gene flow, modern
empirical and theoretical
research using up - to - date molecular and DNA techniques have shown us not only how surprisingly far the flow of genes between distant plant populations can be, but also that the flow of alleles among populations is just as important, if not more so in some cases, as natural selection.
Empirical research on the effectiveness of these codes of conduct is scarce, due to the often - proprietary nature of such information and to limited disclosure
about implementation progress.
Needed: Practical accounts
about saving science from the unethical Presenter: Joan E. Sieber, Journal of
Empirical Research on Human
Research Ethics, USA
The arguments thrown
about (fiber grains chelate, or bind, to iron, causing its loss... true, but all fiber does this... high grain diets cause malnutrition, yes, in populations not give other foods, etc.) are rarely backed by any real
research or
empirical data.
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There aren't many practitioners who care
about rigorous
empirical research.
To learn more
about the available
empirical evidence on the effects of school choice programs, flip through this handy slide show, curated collectively and carefully by EdChoice's
research team.
In this section, we report on
empirical data from a
research project
about mathematics and science teaching in which teachers used variation theory as a design principle (Kullberg 2016; Kullberg et al. 2016; Runesson and Kullberg 2017).
More recent
research backs up this view, argued University of Washington professor Dan Goldhaber in a retrospective
about the report for Education Next: «New
empirical work, using better data... and more sophisticated statistical techniques has, in broad terms, reinforced the Coleman Report conclusion that teacher quality is the most important schooling variable.»
In setting my learning goals for tomorrow's Ph.D. prosem class, should I focus our attention on the substantive claims
about social capital and inequality, on the methods that different researchers use, or on the interplay between theory construction and
empirical research?
Our claim that these practices ought to be considered essential for successful leaders is based on reviews of
empirical research and on illustrative original studies carried out in educational contexts.116 We also rely on a synthesis of evidence
about managerial skills, compiled by Yukl (2002).
Although the 2012
research - based document titled UCEA Institutional and Program Quality Criteria provides an accounting of features, content, and experiences associated with effective leadership preparation — all of which are criteria for this award — more recent
empirical and scholarly literature on effective and exemplary leadership preparation provides additional insights
about important dimensions of these criteria and are considered as programs are reviewed for this award.
That said, the existing
empirical research does provide some specific guidance for thinking
about value - added based TPP accountability.
To see two
empirical articles
about the claims made to sell Sanders's EVAAS system, the
research non-existent in support of each of the claims, and the realities of those at the receiving ends of this system (i.e., teachers) as per their experiences with each of the claims, see here and here.
Teacher Match and Hanover
Research are the companies specifically named and targeted for marketing and selling a series of highly false assumptions about teaching and teachers, highly false claims about value - added (without empirical research in support), highly false assertions about how value - added estimates can be used for better teacher evaluation / accountability, and highly false sales pitches about what they as value - added / research «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for t
Research are the companies specifically named and targeted for marketing and selling a series of highly false assumptions
about teaching and teachers, highly false claims
about value - added (without
empirical research in support), highly false assertions about how value - added estimates can be used for better teacher evaluation / accountability, and highly false sales pitches about what they as value - added / research «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for t
research in support), highly false assertions
about how value - added estimates can be used for better teacher evaluation / accountability, and highly false sales pitches
about what they as value - added /
research «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for t
research «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for the above
While the existing knowledge base of
empirical literature offers a small amount of assistance to those faced with decisions
about selecting teacher leaders, more
research is needed that focuses on teacher leader selection and its connection to teacher leader practice.
These researchers might be (in my opinion) prematurely optimistic
about the potentials of VAMs contrary to what aproximately 90 % of the
empirical research in this area would support; these scholars might use methods that over-simplistically approach very complex problems and accordingly make often sweeping, unwarranted, and perhaps invalid assertions regardless; these folks might have financial or other vested interests in the VAMs being adopted and implemented; or the like.
This
research offers an approach to the
empirical study of reception on a previously unprecedented scale and offers an insight into what users find interesting
about the material they are reading.
Empirical Finance
Research cites a 1998 study by Stephens and Weisbach that found that firms on average repurchase only
about 80 % of the sum announced.
But what does the
empirical research have to say
about this approach?
About Blog Explorations of
Empirical and Formal
Research in Political Science.The goal is to discuss, elaborate, critique, and announce current and emerging research in the subfields that is relevant to the study of international relations and comparative p
Research in Political Science.The goal is to discuss, elaborate, critique, and announce current and emerging
research in the subfields that is relevant to the study of international relations and comparative p
research in the subfields that is relevant to the study of international relations and comparative politics.
The trouble is that there remains little
empirical evidence to support the idea, as we were surprised to find out when we talked to UC San Diego atmospheric physicist Veerabhadran Ramanathan
about his
research showing that another type of aerosol — black carbon — had a significant warming effect:
As others have noted, the IPCC Team has gone absolutely feral
about Salby's
research and the most recent paper by Dr Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama (On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance), for one simple reason: both are based on
empirical, undoctored satellite observations, which, depending on the measure required, now extend into the past by up to 32 years, i.e. long enough to begin evaluating real climate trends; whereas much of the Team's science in AR4 (2007) is based on primitive climate models generated from primitive and potentially unreliable land measurements and proxies, which have been «filtered» to achieve certain artificial realities (There are other more scathing descriptions of this process I won't use).
Consistent with previous theorising and
empirical research highlighting that foregone - gains are preferred over losses [10], [19]--[23], people supported higher levels of emission cuts when the costs were framed as a foregone - gain than when they were framed as a loss (the one exception to this pattern was in Study 2, where the framing effect was eliminated when combined with a normative message
about the emission policy preferences of others).
Despite all the
research, the recognized experts and
empirical evidence though, the IPCC and Climategate's Josefino Comiso are already attempting to smother the facts and truth
about Antarctica in the next IPCC report, AR5.
Between a
research - gutting proposed budget, regulation - slashing executive orders, the appointment of climate change skeptics to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, and bogus claims
about vaccines, infectious diseases, and global warming, it's no secret that President Donald Trump has demonstrated indifference to
empirical fact and hostility to the scientific community.
Again, Herrmann emphasizes that his review can hardly be considered
empirical research, but he nevertheless reaches a conclusion
about the life expectancy of a legal blog:
Part V offers practical advice to new
empirical researchers
about potential questions for
empirical research, data collection issues, the role of institutional review boards and methodologists, and writing up a study.
Southwestern Law School, for example, has incorporated
empirical research on lawyers» careers into a class in its mandatory first - year curriculum: «Professionalism explicitly grounds the course through the introduction of case studies of lawyers» careers that have been drawn from
empirical research...» 23 Indiana University's Mauer School of Law has introduced a four - credit first - year course on the Legal Profession that similarly involves students in learning
about lawyers» careers using
empirical research and discussions with practicing lawyers.24 Interestingly, in both cases, the deans of the law schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year courses.
Social scientists understandably complain
about uninformed forays into their domains by law professors and legal practitioners who use
empirical research in opportunistic and even quite obviously mistaken ways.20 And yet, some of the new empiricists are equally guilty of approaching the legal world in opportunistic fashion, failing to take legal knowledge and expertise seriously.
Why do we continue to talk
about this without strong
empirical research?
Empirical research shows that lawyers are overconfident
about their ability to predict the outcomes of cases (see, for example, Insightful or Wishful: Lawyers» Ability to Predict Case Outcomes.
Legal Realism Unpublished Decisions, Non-Citation Rules, and Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 Existing Legal Scholarship and
Empirical Data A DETAILED COMPARISON OF PRINT AND ELECTRONIC
RESEARCH PROCESSES — IDENTIFYING SALIENT DIFFERENCES Electronic Researchers Are Not Guided by Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers with Respect to Identifying Relevant Theories, Principles, and Cases Electronic Researchers Do Not Encounter and Interpret Individual Cases Through the Lens of Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGED RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in
RESEARCH PROCESSES — IDENTIFYING SALIENT DIFFERENCES Electronic Researchers Are Not Guided by Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers with Respect to Identifying Relevant Theories, Principles, and Cases Electronic Researchers Do Not Encounter and Interpret Individual Cases Through the Lens of Key System Information to the Same Extent as Print Researchers Electronic Researchers Are Exposed to More — and Different — Case Texts than Print Researchers COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - DERIVED PREDICTIONS
ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF A CHANGED
RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal Research Diversity in
RESEARCH PROCESS: DIVERSITY IN FRAMING AND TILTING AT WINDMILLS Principles and Theories of Cognitive Psychology Influence of Labeling Influence of Categories Confirmatory Bias and Selective Information Processing Application of Cognitive Psychology Principles to Legal
Research Diversity in
Research Diversity in Framing.
The Society particularly wishes to encourage younger scholars to engage in
research, particularly
empirical research,
about the various aspects of the international legal profession and legal professionals.