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Fear of Crime, Social Rigorism and Mass Media in Poland
International Review of Victimology, 1993The article presents the results of the few victimisation surveys carried out in Poland. They reveal relatively low levels of crime in Poland, but which are not correlated with the official criminal statistics. The article criticises the method for compiling criminal statistics adopted by the Polish police, a method which enables enforcement agencies ...
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Rigor and Relevance in Social Work Science
2019Abstract Rigor and relevance are essential features of social work science. However, they are often misperceived as being in opposition to one another. Conducting social work research that is both rigorous and relevant requires changes in traditional perspectives, priorities, and practices.
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Toward Rigor and Relevance in US Social Work Education
Australian Social Work, 2007Abstract After reviewing the major changes taking place in American higher education, the present paper discusses a select number of challenges confronting US social work education. These challenges are broadly characterized as those of rigor and relevance.
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Balancing Clarity, Rigor, and Access: Academic Transfer in Social Work Education
Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, 2019Given the rising cost of higher education, many students begin their academic career in community college. For social work students, this can be a more affordable path to a BSW degree and potential eligibility for advanced standing. This administrative note describes the impact of one state’s program-to-program transfer articulation agreement on three ...
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Experimental Research and Social Policy: Must It Be Rigor versus Relevance?
Journal of Social Issues, 1985… the acquirement of knowledge was interesting and attractive but it could only give clear and exact results in proportion to its inapplicability to the question of life. The less it had to do with these questions, the clearer and more exact it was; the more it took the character of a solution of these questions, the obscurer and less attractive they ...
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Prologue Exploring the Meaning of Science and Defining Rigor in the Social Sciences
Behavioral Disorders, 2001This special issue of Behavioral Disorders seeks to elucidate, rather than debate, the meaning of science and to define, rather than defend, the notion of rigor in the social sciences addressing the quality of life for students with emotional or behavioral disorders.
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Community research within a social constructionist epistemology: implications for “Scientific Rigor”
Community Development, 2014Evaluation research continues to be dominated by the positivist paradigm and a commitment to factual and value free research. Policy makers and associated evaluators, in particular, consistently approach program evaluation from a positivist perspective in which methodological rigor is assessed through their interpretation of valid and generalizable ...
Karnilowicz, Wally +2 more
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Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2012
With articles on organizational learning, the middle manager, and leadership appearing in Organization Science and SMJ alongside coauthors such as Henry Mintzberg and Karl Weick, and with over 2,50...
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With articles on organizational learning, the middle manager, and leadership appearing in Organization Science and SMJ alongside coauthors such as Henry Mintzberg and Karl Weick, and with over 2,50...
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Science and Public Health as a Tool for Social Justice Requires Methodological Rigor
Pediatrics, 2022Elle, Lett +3 more
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Iterative A/B Testing for Social Impact: Rigorous, Rapid, Regular
How organizations can close the gap between measurement and ...Angrist, Noam +3 more
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