Sentences with phrase «participants study topics»

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Researchers at the University of Miami conducted a study during which they asked three groups of participants to write about certain topics each week.

Although our study aimed to assist fathers to support their breastfeeding partner, topics around lifestyle changes and intimacy issues also featured in discussions where participants were able to reflect upon how they might manage these changes and the expected gender role changes inherent in the transition to fatherhood.

The confederates were trained to make the study participants feel excluded by talking about stereotypically masculine topics (sports, video games and a class in business statistics) or stereotypically feminine topics (shopping, yoga and Pilates, and a class in child development) and by subtly excluding the participants from the conversations.

In the experiment, we asked a national sample of the US population to participate in a public opinion poll about popular topics (participants did not know that the study was really about climate change).

Participants in the study documented in the report — adults of various racial and ethnic backgrounds and educational levels from across the U.S. — judged black girls, starting at age 5, to be older, to need less support, to know more about adult topics, to need less protection, and to be more sexually aware than white girls.

Recognizing that priorities for both laboratory - based investigation and community - based action are determined by the meeting participants, a preliminary menu of potential topics includes the following: 1) Advancing the frontiers of scientific research: • construct a developmental framework to study the differential effects of biological embedding of significant adversity related to age, beginning in the prenatal period and extending into adulthood.

The 2016 study asked more than 3000 participants for their views on a range of education - related topics, including resources, homework and the greatest challenges facing their child's learning.

Case studies permit investigations of otherwise impractical situations, help generate new ideas, and allow researchers to explore topics in far more detail than might be possible if they were trying to deal with a large number of research participants (McLeod, 2008).

Currently, participants are studying topics such as co-teaching, personal learning plans, design thinking and curriculum integration.

So we might think of the result of this study as analogous to an instant Delphi test for the participants: They can more easily sniff out the «sense of the committee» on the topic of climate change than they can give a coherent opinion and rationale of their own.

A third breakout session allowed participants to comment on any topic within the scope of the workshop, and key points have been integrated into this report where relevant (many are covered in Chapter 3) and will be considered further during a follow - on study.

Topics addressed in the study include participants» views of and experiences with: court - attached family justice programs; hearing the views of children; issues in custody and access disputes; issues in disputes about child support and spousal support; family violence; unified family courts; and, limited scope legal services in family law disputes.