Might progress assessments hinder equitable progress? Evidence from England

Thyroid Papillary Microcarcinoma Might Progress During Pregnancy

Background: Papillary thyroid cancer occasionally occurs in women of childbearing age. As papillary microcarcinoma (PMC) rarely grows or becomes clinically apparent, observation without surgery is an appropriate strategy for patients with low-risk PMC. Human chorionic gonadotropin possesses weak thyroid-stimulating activity. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of pregnancy on PMC. Me...

Opportunities for Collaborative Adaptive Management Progress: Integrating Stakeholder Assessments into Progress Measurement

Collaborative Adaptive Management (CAM) program stakeholders informally assess program progress through subjective assessments regularly. Each stakeholder does this by individually selecting objective progress indicators based on their needs, values, and preferences. They do this even though there may be a stakeholder group agreed-on set of progress objectives. Individual stakeholder indicators...

Scientific Progress, Verisimilitude, and Evidence

The verisimilitudinarian approach to scientific progress (VS) is the view that progress can be accounted for in terms of the increasing verisimilitude or, equivalently, truthlikeness, or approximation to the truth, of our theories. In this paper, I defend VS against the criticism, levelled by Bird (2007), that it exhibits an unacceptable lack of interest in the issue of the grounding of scienti...

Assessing the Value of Climate Assessments: Progress and Future Directions

The authors synthesize existing climate research and climate instruments, as well as introduce several frameworks to help educators understand how institutions and researchers have assessed diversity in the college environment. Over 90 instruments were reviewed and examined for their attention to multiple dimensions of the campus climate, diversity initiatives, and outcomes measures that captur...

Technical Progress Report: Implementation Plan for Probabilistic Ecological Assessments