Given the narrow scope of primary teachers’ knowledge and use of children’s literature identified in Phase I of Teachers as Readers (2006-7), the core goal of the Phase II project, was to improve teachers’ knowledge and experience of such literature in order to help them increase children's motivation and enthusiasm for reading, especially those less successful in literacy. The year long projec...

We believe it should be possible to make operational the philosophical ideas of the good life in order to make it the object of scientific research. The Quality of Life Research Center in Copenhagen, Denmark has therefore spent the last several years with these questions and tried to find practical and evidence-based scientific solutions. This paper describes the theoretical road taken in movin...

If there is a need for training in general anaesthesia I believe it must be because of frequent administration of general anaesthesia by the dentist. Observation suggests to me that today very few dentists in South Africa ad­ minister general anaesthetics. General anaesthetics in South African dental practice are usually administered either by specialist anaesthetists or by general medical prac...

January/February 2003, Volume 57, Number 1 If there is any single statistic that we practitioners should know so deeply that it is integral to our view of the world, it is the standard deviation. This statistic is a beautiful one for evidence-based practice and, well, just beautiful in general. The reason for its beauty is that it depicts variation among individuals. Our practice is with indivi...

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BACKGROUND The Government of Malawi is seeking evidence to improve implementation of its flagship quality of care improvement initiative-the Standards Based Management-Recognition for Reproductive Health (SBM-R(RH)). OBJECTIVE This implementation study will assess the quality of maternal healthcare in facilities where the SBM-R(RH) initiative has been employed, identify factors that support o...

Qualitative methods have gained support in health sciences research and have a role to play in STI studies. This article reviews the main techniques used by qualitative researchers, with illustrations taken from the field of STIs.

In recent years, the emergence of a new trend in contemporary philosophy has been observed in the increasing usage of empirical research methods to conduct philosophical inquiries. Although philosophers primarily use secondary data from other disciplines or apply quantitative methods (experiments, surveys, etc.), the rise of qualitative methods (e.g., in-depth interviews, participant observatio...

Research methods and statistics are regarded as difficult subjects to teach, fueling investigations into techniques that increase student engagement. Students enjoy active learning opportunities like hands-on demonstrations, authentic research participation, and working with real data. However, enhanced enjoyment does not always correspond with enhanced learning and performance. In this study, ...