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Computing Now: Peer-Review Rigor Meets Social Networks
IEEE Internet Computing, 2008The IEEE Computer Society (CS) recently launched Computing Now (CN; http://computingnow.computer.org), a single portal for all 14 CS magazines, that attempts to expose the traditional peer-reviewed content in CS magazines to a more collaborative style of social networks and Web 2.0.
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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 ...
Michele Belliveau +2 more
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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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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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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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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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Using Soclab for a Rigorous Assessment of the Social Feasibility of Agricultural Policies
International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems, 2011This paper presents a theoretical and methodological framework to take into consideration the social dimension in a sustainable development project. To do this, the authors have developed the SocLab software environment, which implements a formalization of a well-established sociological theory, and enables the modeling of social organizations, to ...
Adreit, Françoise +3 more
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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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“Hi-tech hermeneutics”: combining rigor and alternative epistemologies of social science
2012Hayward Alker characterized his efforts as “that of adapting the logically informed analytical-empirical philosophies of research to humanistic, dialectical-hermeneutic purposes”. In this chapter the author lays out the rudiments of a conception of social interaction – that of Alfred Schutz – compatible with at least one important approach to ...
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Rigor in social life cycle assessment: improving the scientific grounding of SLCA
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2016Social life cycle assessment (SLCA) is developing rapidly and represents a valuable complement to other life cycle methods. As methodological development continues, a growing number of case studies have noted the need for more scientific rigor in areas like data collection, allocation methods, and incorporation of values and cultural context. This work
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