Sentences with phrase «use empirical research»

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.

The broadcasters who have had money available for research into religious television's effectiveness, namely the evangelical and fundamentalist organizations, do not have a tradition of using empirical research for evaluating effectiveness.

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.

In both, our pedagogic approach has been to embed the learning of innovative methods for causal inference in substantive contexts, using empirical research papers from a variety of fields to introduce, explain, and illustrate the application of these methods.

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.

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Future planning for religious uses of television should take seriously those insights provided by empirical research both into general television use and effects and into specifically religious television use and effect.

Part II provides a survey of empirical research relevant to the various issues in religious television and through this survey clarifies many of the questions which have been raised in relation to the religious use of television.

Chris Ruane questioned the validity of Mr Beecroft's research by asking why he had «failed to use empirical evidence», despite being a «trained scientist».

I developed a generic model for emissions prediction based on thermodynamic principles (fundamental research), but using empirical constants so as to ensure its valid application to different engines (applied 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.

«These empirical challenges have meant that existing research has largely focused on documenting and observing the intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use,» said Magne Mogstad, assistant professor of economics.

«As with any research enterprise, the available empirical evidence will expand with application and use of these guidelines,» the TOP Committee wrote.

Susan Gould Fogerite, director of research for the Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the School of Health Related Professions, said that although there is widespread evidence that yoga is being used as a form of exercise by those with MS, much of the feedback has been anecdotal and there isn't much empirical data regarding its safety and efficacy.

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.

It is now time to place greater emphasis on the assessment of efforts to improve integrity in research and the use of empirical information in developing research integrity policies.

Polar hydrogens, Gasteiger - Marsili empirical atomic partial charges, and the AutoDock atom types were computed using the MGLTools version 1.5.4 package (Molecular Graphics Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA)(Morris et al., 2009).

Luckily, the latest scientific research is beginning to catch - up with the popularity of natural health options; and catching up with centuries of empirical evidence from practical use.

«In 2000, backed by over 35 years of clinical and empirical research, Dr. Neil Clarke Warren transformed the way singles are introduced online when he launched eHarmony - the first relationship service on the Web to use a scientific approach to match highly compatible singles.»

Jennings uses this highly desirable media perch to promote findings that he says are the result of empirical research conducted by the CEP.

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).

The measures of teacher quality that are used by most public school systems to screen candidates and determine compensation — certification, experience, and education level — have been well researched, but there is little definitive empirical evidence that these characteristics, defined in general terms, are associated with higher student achievement.

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?

Following the summary, each study was reviewed using a set of standards of evidence for empirical research.

We discuss how additional research could help educators use these measures more effectively, and we pose new questions, the answers to which depend not on empirical investigation but on human judgment.

Future research could also use empirical data collection methods to report on the cognitive, emotional, and personal impacts of arts integration on students.

NBI 76 says, «NEA will facilitate access to empirical research and reviewed and / or valid studies, for member use, on the NEA website to assist members in combating the concerted attacks on public education and public educators.»

ESSA requires three primary tiers of evidence for these funding streams, and educators can use a fourth tier to implement programs that lack empirical research but meet local needs.

Avoiding the trap of technology for technology's sake necessitates systematic empirical research into how these technologies are being used, and the degree to which and ways in which the technology supports the purported goals.

His empirical scholarship is heavily used by scholars, policymakers, and practitioners, and his research has been recognized with several awards and honors, including the Distinguished Special Education Researcher Award from the American Educational Research Association's Special Education Research Dresearch has been recognized with several awards and honors, including the Distinguished Special Education Researcher Award from the American Educational Research Association's Special Education Research DResearch Association's Special Education Research DResearch Division.

In a review of research on computer simulations and science education and other closely related science, technology, education, and mathematics (STEM) fields, Rutten et al. (2012) examined 48 empirical studies that focused on the use of computer simulations aimed at changing knowledge or skills of high school and undergraduate students.

Four reports from USDE (2014) show that there is no empirical research to support the use of the SLO process (and associated district - devised tests and cut - off scores) for teacher evaluation.

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 tResearch 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 tresearch 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 tresearch «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for the above

Measures of teacher content knowledge used in empirical research, including research conducted by MSP projects, were identified and analyzed.

Flip through our complete summary of the high - quality empirical research conducted on school choice programs to date, including evidence based on students» test scores (of those using programs and those who remain in public schools), long - term educational attainment, integration / segregation, fiscal effects and students» civic values.

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.

Four reports from USDE (2014)[I found three] show that there is no empirical research to support the use of the SLO process (and associated district - devised tests and cut - off scores) for teacher evaluation.

I have yet to see a testing company offer empirical research or any other guarantee backing the use of student achievement tests for measuring teacher effectiveness.

Yet in spite of these initiatives, and the mounds of data they have produced, there is surprisingly little empirical research on how teachers and administrators actually make use of data, and to what effect.

An extensive and growing body of empirical research supports the use of reflective assessment strategies (Black & Wiliam, 1998; Bond & Ellis, 2013; Dignath & Büttner, 2008; Gulikers, Bastiaens, Kirschner, & Kester, 2006).

Empirical research shows the most effective time frame is quarterly, and so that's what's used in the investment portfolio models.

She often used materials associated with gathering information for empirical research, such as graph paper, photographic film and audio tapes, chosen for their utilitarian qualities.

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).

The vast majority of hard - science research scientists are now coming to the belief that the climate models used by the UN's IPCC and major climate agencies are seriously in error, based on this latest research and empirical evidence.

Their research is based on the empirical evidence of a reconstructed temperature dataset using tree rings from China's northwestern Sichuan Plateau.

This latest flip - flop was based on a computer model, which is quite simply, nothing but simulated research using limited empirical evidence.

Although we were motivated in this research by an objective to expose effects of human - made global warming as soon as possible, we use an empirical approach that does not require knowledge of the causes of observed climate change.

Behavioral economics rest on the obvervation that using hand calculators to predict behavior reduces empirical research to armchair theorizing.

This insight is based in part on my own empirical research on legal education and the legal academy, which is primarily housed at and funded by the American Bar Foundation, on legal education and the legal academy.5 In this Article, I will also draw on several current examples of law schools that incorporate social science into legal training, using them to illustrate how interdisciplinary research can bridge theory and practice for lawyers and the legal profession.

Law professors and social scientists who are advocating more use of empirical research often fail to take seriously the forms of expertise that are particular to legal professionals — in particular, the forms of normative reasoning that translate the «is» of social science into the «ought» or «must» of law.19