A training scheme for accounting and finance PhD students on their empirical research skills

Lawzone: Mapping unmet legal need

International Journal of Clinical Legal Education ◽

10.19164/ijcle.v24i2.596 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 3

Author(s):

Richard Owen

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Teaching Practices ◽

Social Inequalities ◽

Human Geography ◽

Local Communities ◽

Pedagogical Issues ◽

Research Methodologies ◽

Research Skills

Mapping unmet legal need assists university law clinics plan activities to meet the needs of the communities they serve. This article, by looking at a project where students started mapping unmet legal need in their locality, will consider the pedagogical issues associated with identifying unmet legal need and how it might enable university law clinics to be better embedded into their local communities by considering aspects of physical and human geography when considering injustice. It will also look at exiting research methodologies in this area and how mapping unmet legal need can develop students’ empirical research skills. The article also assesses the project’s aims to develop attributes such as entrepreneurship, as well utilising teaching practices such as visualisation to enable students to think spatially to perceive and understand social inequalities more clearly. It will argue that involving students in mapping unmet legal need will help them make those services more accessible; devise holistic solutions to clients’ problems; and enable them to work more effectively with other disciplines to both their own and their clients’ benefit.

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Empirical research skills

The Media and Communications Study Skills Student Guide ◽

10.16997/book42.l ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 133-151

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Research Skills

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Successive approach implementation to the empirical research skills development of social and cultural activities specialist

Tambov University Review Series Humanities ◽

10.20310/1810-0201-2019-24-178-77-84 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 77-84

Author(s):

Marina Dolzhenkova ◽

Tatyana Bortnikova

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Research Training ◽

Survey Methods ◽

Skills Development ◽

Practical Training ◽

Empirical Methods ◽

Research Skills ◽

Cultural Activities ◽

Object Of Study ◽

Independent Work

The main approaches and algorithm of implementation of the successive approach to the development of skills of empirical research in the preparation of students in the direction of “Socio-Cultural Activity” are revealed. The features of concentric approach to research training of bachelors, masters and postgraduates are considered. Revealed the main directions and ways of formation of research skills in the framework of practical training, as well as the organization of independent work of students on the implementation of research projects. As part of the course “Methodology of scientific research” the development of variable modifications of the method of observation, as well as survey methods (conversation, interviewing, testing, questioning, expert survey) and methods of pedagogical experiment. The research procedures, their possibilities and limits of application are studied in detail. Special attention in the course of practical training re-quires mastering the skills to prepare a package of tools for pedagogical diagnostics, which is used to carry out measurements and fixing the parameters of the state of the object of study. According to the results of the study, students make analytical reviews of information, reflecting in a generalized form the specific features of the implementation of a technology in modern practice of social and cultural activities. In addition to the development of empirical methods, students learn the skills of presentation and testing of research results.

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Selecting the Optimal FM System for Children With Cochlear Implants

Perspectives on Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood ◽

10.1044/hhdc18.1.19 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 19-24

Author(s):

Erin C. Schafer

Keyword(s):

Speech Recognition ◽

Cochlear Implants ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Background Noise ◽

Signal To Noise Ratio ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Signal To Noise ◽

Speech Processor ◽

System Input ◽

Optimal Type

Children who use cochlear implants experience significant difficulty hearing speech in the presence of background noise, such as in the classroom. To address these difficulties, audiologists often recommend frequency-modulated (FM) systems for children with cochlear implants. The purpose of this article is to examine current empirical research in the area of FM systems and cochlear implants. Discussion topics will include selecting the optimal type of FM receiver, benefits of binaural FM-system input, importance of DAI receiver-gain settings, and effects of speech-processor programming on speech recognition. FM systems significantly improve the signal-to-noise ratio at the child's ear through the use of three types of FM receivers: mounted speakers, desktop speakers, or direct-audio input (DAI). This discussion will aid audiologists in making evidence-based recommendations for children using cochlear implants and FM systems.

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The Impact of Visual Feedback Type on the Mastery of Visuo-Motor Transformations

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000084 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 220 (1) ◽

pp. 3-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sandra Sülzenbrück

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Visual Feedback ◽

Closed Loop ◽

Motor Planning ◽

Visual Input ◽

Closed Loop Control ◽

Loop Control ◽

Feedback Type ◽

Effective Use ◽

The Impact

For the effective use of modern tools, the inherent visuo-motor transformation needs to be mastered. The successful adjustment to and learning of these transformations crucially depends on practice conditions, particularly on the type of visual feedback during practice. Here, a review about empirical research exploring the influence of continuous and terminal visual feedback during practice on the mastery of visuo-motor transformations is provided. Two studies investigating the impact of the type of visual feedback on either direction-dependent visuo-motor gains or the complex visuo-motor transformation of a virtual two-sided lever are presented in more detail. The findings of these studies indicate that the continuous availability of visual feedback supports performance when closed-loop control is possible, but impairs performance when visual input is no longer available. Different approaches to explain these performance differences due to the type of visual feedback during practice are considered. For example, these differences could reflect a process of re-optimization of motor planning in a novel environment or represent effects of the specificity of practice. Furthermore, differences in the allocation of attention during movements with terminal and continuous visual feedback could account for the observed differences.

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Which Data to Meta-Analyze, and How?

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000357 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 227 (1) ◽

pp. 64-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Martin Voracek ◽

Michael Kossmeier ◽

Ulrich S. Tran

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Curve Analysis ◽

Research Progress ◽

Primary Data ◽

Statistical Procedures ◽

Graphical Displays ◽

Primary Data Analysis ◽

Meta Analyses ◽

Data Analytic

Abstract. Which data to analyze, and how, are fundamental questions of all empirical research. As there are always numerous flexibilities in data-analytic decisions (a “garden of forking paths”), this poses perennial problems to all empirical research. Specification-curve analysis and multiverse analysis have recently been proposed as solutions to these issues. Building on the structural analogies between primary data analysis and meta-analysis, we transform and adapt these approaches to the meta-analytic level, in tandem with combinatorial meta-analysis. We explain the rationale of this idea, suggest descriptive and inferential statistical procedures, as well as graphical displays, provide code for meta-analytic practitioners to generate and use these, and present a fully worked real example from digit ratio (2D:4D) research, totaling 1,592 meta-analytic specifications. Specification-curve and multiverse meta-analysis holds promise to resolve conflicting meta-analyses, contested evidence, controversial empirical literatures, and polarized research, and to mitigate the associated detrimental effects of these phenomena on research progress.

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