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Chatfield, Kate; Schroeder, Doris; Guantai, Anastasia; Bhatt, Kirana; Bukusi, Elizabeth; Adhiambo Odhiambo, Joyce; Cook, Julie; Kimani, Joshua – Research Ethics, 2021
Ethics dumping is the practice of undertaking research in a low- or middle-income setting which would not be permitted, or would be severely restricted, in a high-income setting. Whilst Kenya operates a sophisticated research governance system, resource constraints and the relatively low number of accredited research ethics committees limit the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Problems, Research Administration, Advisory Committees
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Gillborn, David – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
Crude and dangerous ideas about the genetic heritability of intelligence, and a supposed biological basis for the Black/White achievement gap, are alive and well inside the education policy process but taking new and more subtle forms. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the paper analyses recent hereditarian writing, in the UK and the USA, and…
Descriptors: Genetics, Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient, Racial Bias
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Campbell, Chad E.; Nehm, Ross H. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2013
The growing importance of genomics and bioinformatics methods and paradigms in biology has been accompanied by an explosion of new curricula and pedagogies. An important question to ask about these educational innovations is whether they are having a meaningful impact on students' knowledge, attitudes, or skills. Although assessments are…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Genetics, Biology, Information Science
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Confer, Jaime C.; Easton, Judith A.; Fleischman, Diana S.; Goetz, Cari D.; Lewis, David M. G.; Perilloux, Carin; Buss, David M. – American Psychologist, 2010
Evolutionary psychology has emerged over the past 15 years as a major theoretical perspective, generating an increasing volume of empirical studies and assuming a larger presence within psychological science. At the same time, it has generated critiques and remains controversial among some psychologists. Some of the controversy stems from…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Adjustment (to Environment), Evolution, Psychology
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Benninghoff, Martin; Sormani, Philippe – European Journal of Education, 2008
This article analyses some typical consequences of a specific research policy on experimental research in biology. The policy is conducted by a national funding agency--the Swiss National Science Foundation--through a particular programme, the "National Centres of Competence in Research" which is designed to promote both "scientific…
Descriptors: Researchers, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis
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Richardson, Ken; Norgate, Sarah H. – Human Development, 2006
The pattern of parent-child correlations in adoption studies has long been interpreted to suggest substantial additive genetic variance underlying variance in IQ. The studies have frequently been criticized on methodological grounds, but those criticisms have not reflected recent perspectives in genetics and developmental theory. Here we apply…
Descriptors: Criticism, Intelligence Quotient, Genetics, Adoption