Interpretive Skills

Interpretive Summary

The Office of Public Health and Science in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS)—with input from other federal agencies, industry, and the public—conducted an assessment of the risk of illness associated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ground beef. This risk assessment details our current state of knowledge about (1) the occurrence of E. coli O157:...

Interpretive and Critical Evaluation

we see knowledge about teaching as communicative and emancipatory in nature, we are led to view the evaluation of teaching as interpretive and critical processes. We have become quite familiar with the notion that we should be matching the kinds of techniques we use for the evaluation of learning with the nature of the expected learning outcomes. We use multiple-choice tests to assess the recog...

Scoring and Interpretive Report

Automatic Brains—Interpretive Minds

The involvement of specific brain areas in carrying out specific tasks has been increasingly well documented over the past decade. Many of these processes are highly automatic and take place outside of conscious awareness. Conscious experience, however, seems unitary and must involve integration between distributed processes. This article presents the argument that this integration occurs in a ...

Doing interpretive research

Received: 29 November 2004 Revised: 26 July 2005 Accepted: 4 November 2005 Abstract Interpretive research in information systems (IS) is now a well-established part of the field. However, there is a need for more material on how to carry out such work from inception to publication. I published a paper a decade ago (Walsham, 1995) which addressed the nature of interpretive IS case studies and me...