Smart Maintenance: an empirically grounded conceptualization

Empirically Grounded Approach

Towards an empirically grounded predictive coding account of action understanding.

Prayer and Marital Intervention: toward an Open, Empirically-grounded Dialogue

In the lead article for this special section, we offered a framework to allow integration of prayer into marital interventions when culturally appropriate. Mindful of potential pitfalls, we concluded that effective skill based family intervention and prevention could benefit from integration of spiritual practices. In the commentaries, several additional issues were articulated and have prompte...

An empirically grounded framework to guide blogging for digital scholarship

This research project investigated how openness and sharing of knowledge are manifested through scholarly blogging. We aimed to identify the academics’ and researchers’ motivations for starting a blog; the contribution of blogging to their personal and professional development; and any challenges. Twenty-six participants were recruited. A pre-interview questionnaire was first emailed to the par...

An empirically grounded framework to guide blogging in higher education

We report on a study involving Masters-level students who blogged as a part of a distancelearning course at the Open University, UK. We present an empirically-grounded framework that can be used to guide educators when they are considering blogging as part of their courses, and can be used by students’ whose courses include blogging activities. In our analysis of semistructured interviews with ...