Science Reporting

Better Science, Better Science Reporting

Multimedia reporting in science problem solving

The increasing availability of CD ROM based interactive multimedia packages to support learning in science classrooms offers science teachers new pedagogical opportunities for student-centred and cooperative learning. However, many of the current products do not make full use of the existing technology in schools and even when they do they tend to constrain the student to a very limited view of...

Nestlé Improves Its Financial Reporting with Management Science

Nestlé’s executive information system (EIS) department gathers data from the firm’s subsidiaries (reporting units) to provide top management with operational, financial, and strategic information. In 1996, the EIS department decided to improve its service by using business analytics tools based on management science (MS) techniques. It wanted to encourage analysts and controllers to make better...

Science and ethics in conducting, analyzing, and reporting psychological research.

The relationship between scientific quality and ethical quality is considered for three aspects ofthe research process: conduct of the research, data analysis, and reporting of results. In the area of conducting research, issues discussed involve design, recruitment, causism, scientific quality, and costs and utilities. The discussion of data analysis considers data dropping, data exploitation,...

Science reporting to the public: does the message get twisted?

© 2004 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Lay people get a substantial amount of information about health and related topics from the media. Communicating with the public through the media can be vexing for medical professionals because they lack direct control over the final reporting. It is the reporter’s framing of the information and his or her words that reach the public, rather...