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International Relations as a Social Science: Rigor and Relevance

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2005
Progress in the study of international politics depends on systematic, rigorous theory and empirical testing. International Relations is most useful when scholars can identify with some confidence the causal forces that drive foreign policy and international interactions, not when they use their detailed empirical knowledge to offer opinions, however ...
Frieden, Jeffry, Lake, David A.
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The Social Costs of Methodological Rigor

Evaluation Review, 1984
This article argues that certain threats to validity arise from the social, rather than methodological, consequences of research design. The need for an evaluator to attend to both methodological and social concerns is demonstrated by an example where the unchecked effects of the social consequences of a methodologically rigorous research design ...
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“Rigor for What?” Social Studies Teacher Conceptions and Enactments of Instructional Rigor

The Social Studies, 2017
ABSTRACTTaken from a larger qualitative study, this article argues that rather than an encompassing uniform definition, rigor, as understood and enacted by social studies teachers, exists on a complicated spectrum. Teacher placement on this spectrum was influenced by teacher life experience, teacher interpretation of student need, pedagogy employed ...
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Rigorous Assessment of Social Validity: A Scoping Review of a 40-Year Conversation

Remedial and special education, 2021
For the last 40 years, special education and applied behavior analysis researchers have discussed the notion of social validity, particularly those researchers who conduct single-case research.
M. Snodgrass, Moon Y. Chung, James Kretzer, E. E. Biggs   +3 more
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Bridging Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship: How Shared Values Can Guide Best Practices for Research Integrity, Social Justice, and Principled Education

Journal of Social Issues
Not all people conform to socially constructed norms, nor should they have to. Neurodiversity, the natural variation in human brains and cognition, is fundamental to understanding human behavior, yet neurodivergent individuals in academia are often ...
Jenny Mai Phan, S. Middleton, F. Azevedo, Bethan J. Iley, Magdalena Grose‐Hodge, S. Tyler, Steven K. Kapp, S. Yeung, John J. Shaw, Helena Hartmann   +9 more
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Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems is a Social Science Measurement Challenge

International Conference on Machine Learning
The measurement tasks involved in evaluating generative AI (GenAI) systems lack sufficient scientific rigor, leading to what has been described as"a tangle of sloppy tests [and] apples-to-oranges comparisons"(Roose, 2024).
Hanna Wallach, Meera Desai, A. F. Cooper, Angelina Wang, Chad Atalla, Solon Barocas, Su Lin Blodgett, Alexandra Chouldechova, Emily Corvi, P. A. Dow, J. Garcia-Gathright, Alexandra Olteanu, Nicholas Pangakis, Stefanie Reed, Emily Sheng, Dan Vann, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Matthew Vogel, Hannah Washington, Abigail Z. Jacobs   +19 more
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A Systematic Review of Predicting Elections Based on Social Media Data: Research Challenges and Future Directions

IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2021
The way politicians communicate with the electorate and run electoral campaigns was reshaped by the emergence and popularization of contemporary social media (SM), such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram social networks (SNs).
K. Brito, R. L. C. S. Filho, P. Adeodato
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Likert Measurement Scale in Education and Social Sciences: Explored and Explained

EDUCATUM Journal of Social Sciences
Surveys are fundamental research tools extensively used by researchers and academic experts across various fields. Their significance lies in their ability to give respondents autonomy in evaluating presented items.

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Serious Games as a Complementary Tool for Social Skill Development in Young People: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Simulation & Gaming, 2021
Background The use of games for social skill development in the classroom is accelerating at a tremendous rate. At the same time, the research surrounding games designed for teaching social skills remains fragmented. This systematic review summarizes the
Lucy R. Zheng, Catherine Oberle, W. A. Hawkes-Robinson, Stéphane Daniau   +3 more
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Computing Now: Peer-Review Rigor Meets Social Networks

IEEE Internet Computing, 2008
The 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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