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The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years: Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of People. Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
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Popkewitz, Thomas S., Ed.; Pettersson, Daniel, Ed.; Hsiao, Kai-Jung, Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2020
The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years. Crossing the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely examines how the desires of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Global Approach, Higher Education, Educational Research
Deriving a Typology of University Graduates' Career Pathways Using Theoretically Driven Sequence Analysis. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1
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Bozena Wielgoszewska – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
In 2014, I started working on the PhD project, which aims at understanding the causes and consequences of university graduates following different types of career pathways. On route to achieving this aim, I faced a challenging task of deriving a typology, which was theoretically meaningful and suitable for further quantitative analysis. As the…
Descriptors: Classification, College Graduates, Career Pathways, Case Studies
Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences: An Introduction
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Imbens, Guido W.; Rubin, Donald B. – Cambridge University Press, 2015
Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two world-renowned experts present statistical methods for studying such questions. This book starts with the notion of potential outcomes, each corresponding…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Statistics, Social Sciences
Research Training in the Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Research Sciences
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National Academies Press, 2011
Comprehensive research and a highly-trained workforce are essential for the improvement of health and health care both nationally and internationally. During the past 40 years the National Research Services Award (NRSA) Program has played a large role in training the workforce responsible for dramatic advances in the understanding of various…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Health Services, Labor Force Development, Program Descriptions
Evaluating Research Articles from Start to Finish.
Girden, Ellen R. – 1996
This book in intended to train students in reading a research report critically. It uses actual research articles as examples including both good and flawed studies in each category and provides interpretation and evaluation of the appropriateness of the statistical analyses in each study. Individual chapters usually include two sample studies and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Case Studies, Classification, Comparative Analysis
The Vocational Interests of Young Adults. Monograph 11.
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Hanson, Gary R., Ed.; Cole, Nancy S., Ed. – 1973
The monograph consists of seven related papers written during the past five years focusing on measuring the vocational interests of young adults. Its stated purpose is to provide both a conceptual framework and a practical foundation for interpreting the world of work to students in terms of their own characteristics and vocational interests. The…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Career Planning, Classification