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Newman, Anne; Glass, Ronald David – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
Criticisms of IRBs are proliferating. In response, we compare the ethical and epistemic standards of two closely related forms of inquiry, investigative journalism and equity-oriented collaborative community-based research (EOCCBR). We argue that a university affiliation justifies formal ethical review of research and suggest how institutionalized…
Descriptors: Ethics, Epistemology, Standards, Journalism
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Braga, Anthony A.; Hureau, David M.; Papachristos, Andrew V. – Evaluation Review, 2011
Background: A small but growing body of research evidence suggests that place-based police interventions generate significant crime control gains. While place-based policing strategies have been adopted by a majority of U.S. police departments, very few agencies make a priori commitments to rigorous evaluations. Objective: Recent methodological…
Descriptors: Police, Program Effectiveness, Geographic Location, Crime
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Bean, John P.; Kuh, George D. – Research in Higher Education, 1988
The research on college students published between 1969 and 1983 in 11 periodicals was used to examine the substantive topics and research methods preferred by male and female authors. Gender differences persisted over the 15 year period and became sharper after 1975. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Authors, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Haim, Gabriel – 1978
This study explored competition and styles of research in the fields of education, political science, sociology, and psychology. The paper is based on a theory which considers science as a competitive activity. Basic, non-applied, experimental, and "high qualitative" research styles are considered more advantageous to competition because (1) they…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis, Competition, Educational Research
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Kyvik, Svein – Higher Education, 1990
A study of Norwegian researchers revealed substantially different patterns in age and research productivity in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, and natural sciences. It is suggested that discrepancies arise from differences in the development of scientific disciplines, particularly the speed of knowledge production and technological…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Faculty Publishing
Blackburn, Robert T., Ed. – 1978
Six papers are presented from an American Educational Research Association symposium. The symposium explored the kind of research needed for increasing understanding of college and university faculty and examined the manner in which different scholarly techniques can contribute. The symposium objective was to open for discussion four modes for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Conference Reports
Anderson, Linda – 2000
The relationship between life history, gender, and the discourse of modernization was examined from the perspective of a researcher with extensive experience performing evaluations about modernization within human services in Denmark. Three stories about site-based management in two human service institutionsa youth center and a boarding school…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bias, Biographies, Comparative Analysis