Spanish research: Painful reform

Eyewitness Identification: Research, Reform, and Reversal

Eyewitness identification research and reform are being reconsidered in light of research suggesting that reforms that were once thought to increase identification accuracy may have little effect on accuracy or may actually decrease accuracy. This article addresses three questions: How should eyewitness identification procedures be evaluated? How can the research-policy collaboration prevent po...

The IRB structure and medical research reform

Optimal Independent Review Board (IRB) structure encompasses ongoing process improvement, ethics policies and continuous relationship building, all sound in evidence. With optimal IRB structure, a global research infrastructure will flourish. Evidence for IRB structure must be detailed and expert operational recommendations should guide. Too, health service research oversight should assist in f...

Reform of Clinical Research Regulations, Finally.

n engl j med 373;24 nejm.org december 10, 2015 2296 Another set of proposed changes aims to match the level of oversight to the level of risk the research poses to participants, by defining categories of research that are excluded from the Common Rule or are exempt from one or more of its requirements (e.g., IRB review). The excluded categories are activities that are deemed not to meet the rul...

Waivers, research, and health system reform.

Identity and Politics in School Reform Research

Keywords, JEL Codes GEORGE AKERLOF AND RACHEL KRANTON (2002) START WITH a question: Why do schools with similar resources produce such widely varying outcomes? Why is it that schools with similar class sizes, for example, produce highly varied levels of student learning? Quoting one of their own referees, Akerlof and Kranton note that “economists do not have good models for explaining why schoo...