Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify

Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify.

CONTEXT In a recent study of the quality of reporting experimental studies in medical education, barely half the articles examined contained an explicit statement of the conceptual framework used. Conceptual frameworks represent ways of thinking about a problem or a study, or ways of representing how complex things work. They can come from theories, models or best practices. Conceptual framewor...

Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks for Organised Violence

Conceptual Frameworks, Comparative Perspectives, Empirical Findings

What does higher education offer to make students competent actors in the world of work and other life spheres? This issue is most controversially debated in economically advanced countries since about four decades when higher education in economically advanced countries began to serve larger ranges of the occupational pyramid than merely the intellectually and professionally chosen few. The au...

Conceptual Frameworks for Web Information Systems Development

The main objective of this paper is to survey, in a schematic and generic way, the major models and approaches concerning the construction and execution of Web information systems. Basically we found three different approaches: server-centric, client-centric and distributed infrastructure-centric applications. We discuss the major strengths and weaknesses of the current Web technology, in this ...

Disparities in defining disparities: statistical conceptual frameworks.

Motivated by the need to meaningfully implement the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) definition of health care disparity, this paper proposes statistical frameworks that lay out explicitly the needed causal assumptions for defining disparity measures. Our key emphasis is that a scientifically defensible disparity measure must take into account the direction of the causal relationship between all...