Good educational research makes good education planning

What Is "Good" Education Research?

education research. I readily grant that some number of my misgivings are based more on my personal experiences than on a thorough study of the state of education research. I have read enough and talked enough to colleagues around the country to be confident that I am not totally offbase. Yet my principal aim is to provoke thought and conversation about our work as education researchers, not to...

Employee attendance: good policy makes good sense

What makes good guidelines?

In the last two decades, a large number of national and international treatment guidelines have been developed, to assist practioners in making decisions based on available evidence. However, according to a survey of schizophrenia practice guidelines for example [1], the methodological quality of the most guidelines was at best moderate. Hence, national and international institutions attempted ...

What Makes a Good Footprint?

2. Region approximation [1, 2]. Given a discrete set of points, and for each point whether it lies inside or outside some region of interest, we want to draw a polygon to represent that region. This problem can appear in two guises: (1) the region in question is well-defined, but we either do not know, or do not wish to spare the computational resources to represent, its exact boundary; (2) the...

What Makes a Good Summary?

One of the biggest challenges for intelligence analysts who participate in prevention or response to a terrorism act is to quickly find relevant information from massive amount of data. Along with research on information retrieval and filtering, text summarization is an effective technique to help intelligent analysts shorten their time to find critical information and make timely decision. In ...