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Responsive evaluation is an approach to measure the effectiveness of educational programs developed by Robert E. Stake. [1] This approach enables to evaluate the educational and other programs by comparing the program activity, the program uniqueness, and the social diversity of the people. The most important feature in the responsive ...
Evaluation. In common usage, evaluation is a systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to assess any aim, realizable concept/proposal, or any alternative, to ...
Competency-based learning. Competency-based learning or competency-based education is a framework for teaching and assessment of learning. It is also described as a type of education based on predetermined "competencies," which focuses on outcomes and real-world performance. [1] Competency-based learning is sometimes presented as an alternative ...
Experiential learning ( ExL) is the process of learning through experience, and is more narrowly defined as "learning through reflection on doing". [1] Hands-on learning can be a form of experiential learning, but does not necessarily involve students reflecting on their product. [2] [3] [4] Experiential learning is distinct from rote or ...
e. The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. The scientific method involves careful observation coupled with rigorous scepticism, because cognitive assumptions can distort the interpretation of the observation.
Remote viewing ( RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject, purportedly sensing with the mind. [1] A remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person, or location hidden from physical view and separated at some distance. [2] Physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, parapsychology ...
—Max Weber in Sociological Writings, 1904. The principle of methodological individualism, which holds that social scientists should seek to understand collectivities solely as the result of the actions of individual persons, can be traced to Weber. In the first chapter of Economy and Society, he argued that only individuals "can be treated as agents in a course of subjectively understandable ...
The Watchers (titled The Watched in the United Kingdom and Ireland [1]) is an upcoming American supernatural horror film written and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan, produced by her father M. Night Shyamalan, and based on the novel of the same name by A. M. Shine. It stars Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan, and Olwen Fouéré .