All of these issues relate to the applicability of the research to your learning situation, that is, to the confi dence you can put in the results based on the validity of the study. Throughout this book, we report the results of statistical tests of the research we summarize. Therefore, in this section we briefl y summarize how to interpret those statistical tests. Suppose you read a study com...

Stephan Schaffrath, in his paper "The Methodology of Architectonic Truth-Finding in Grass's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)," discusses how Günter Grass's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) negotiates the treacherous terrains that lie between positivism and nihilistic relativism by means of a truth-finding methodology. Schaffrath proposes that truth-finding methodology applies approximative, and t...

Purpose To accomplish the translation and cultural adaptation of the Test of Narrative Language (TNL) into Brazilian Portuguese. Methods The TNL is a formal instrument which assesses narrative comprehension and oral narration of children between the ages of 5-0 and 11-11 (years-months). The TNL translation and adaptation process had the following steps: (1) translation into the target languag...

We called the global creative community for contributions by summer 2020 in an attempt to map practices generating and sharing alternative knowledges across a variety of methods forms.
 Our call accepts that there may be infinite number equally valid, but possibly less accessible – or merely certain communities knowledge systems, much like concurrent physics is considering existence multiv...

The aim of the study was the analysis of key motives for adoption in the context of life experiences of childless couples. This article covers the selected aspects of the qualitative analysis of the biographical narrations obtained during the narration interviews conducted with Polish and French adoptive parents. The study was conducted using the biographical method. The choice of adoptive pare...

BACKGROUND Computer based methods are increasingly being used for training workers, although our understanding of how to structure this training has not kept pace with the changing abilities of computers. Information on a computer can be presented in many different ways and the style of presentation can greatly affect learning outcomes and the effectiveness of the learning intervention. Many qu...