Histories of Scientific Observation
Author | : Lorraine Daston |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2011-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226136787 |
Includes bibliographical referrences and index.
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Author | : Lorraine Daston |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2011-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226136787 |
Includes bibliographical referrences and index.
Author | : University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) |
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Total Pages | : 1264 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : Society of the Sigma Xi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
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Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : College student newspapers and periodicals |
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Author | : Elaine Seymour |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2000-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780813366425 |
This intriguing book explores the reasons that lead undergraduates of above-average ability to switch from science, mathematics, and engineering majors into nonscience majors. Based on a three-year, seven-campus study, the volume takes up the ongoing national debate about the quality of undergraduate education in these fields, offering explanations for net losses of students to non-science majors. Data show that approximately 40 percent of undergraduate students leave engineering programs, 50 percent leave the physical and biological sciences, and 60 percent leave mathematics. Concern about this waste of talent is heightened because these losses occur among the most highly qualified college entrants and are disproportionately greater among women and students of color, despite a serious national effort to improve their recruitment and retention. The authors' findings, culled from over 600 hours of ethnographic interviews and focus group discussions with undergraduates, explain the intended and unintended consequences of some traditional teaching practices and attitudes. Talking about Leaving is richly illustrated with students' accounts of their own experiences in the sciences. This is a landmark study-an essential source book for all those concerned with changing the ways that we teach science, mathematics, and engineering education, and with opening these fields to a more diverse student body.
Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2018-01-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309391253 |
The integrity of knowledge that emerges from research is based on individual and collective adherence to core values of objectivity, honesty, openness, fairness, accountability, and stewardship. Integrity in science means that the organizations in which research is conducted encourage those involved to exemplify these values in every step of the research process. Understanding the dynamics that support â€" or distort â€" practices that uphold the integrity of research by all participants ensures that the research enterprise advances knowledge. The 1992 report Responsible Science: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process evaluated issues related to scientific responsibility and the conduct of research. It provided a valuable service in describing and analyzing a very complicated set of issues, and has served as a crucial basis for thinking about research integrity for more than two decades. However, as experience has accumulated with various forms of research misconduct, detrimental research practices, and other forms of misconduct, as subsequent empirical research has revealed more about the nature of scientific misconduct, and because technological and social changes have altered the environment in which science is conducted, it is clear that the framework established more than two decades ago needs to be updated. Responsible Science served as a valuable benchmark to set the context for this most recent analysis and to help guide the committee's thought process. Fostering Integrity in Research identifies best practices in research and recommends practical options for discouraging and addressing research misconduct and detrimental research practices.