Empirical

Education is a foundation for the intellectual and pragmatic societal structure seen today. However, what is education and how can educators truly assess a student’s education? According to Mark K. Smith, “education... is a process of inviting truth and possibility, of encouraging and giving time to discovery” (2). School administrators have outlined a black-and-white scenario to assess this definition where students are judged on either their summative assessment, known as a proficiency model,…

Crime rates had continued to vary over time, reaching a peak, however, during the twentieth century, between the 1970s and 1990s. Over the most recent decades, crime rate have continuously declined and continue to do so today. If this holds true, then why is it exactly that we as a nation continue to invest billions of dollars into the criminal justice system each year to only have the prison population continue to grow? A major reasoning for this increase in the prison population growth has…

concept of demarcation was outlined by Reisch (1998) to identify the boundary between science and pseudoscience (as cited in Schick, 2000). First, he introduced the “ simple demarcation” criteria, which adapted the logical positivism view and its empirical methodology in recognizing the scientific knowledge. Then, he introduced the second concept, which is “ network demarcation” as the methodology to find the interconnections among the acceptable different field of sciences. If the theory lacks…

Modern organizations have been increasingly regarding knowledge as the priority because most of the empirical paradigms have proved that knowledge can bring considerably high standard performance to organizations (Uriarte, 2008). Thus, managing knowledge inside companies is currently an important topic to study. Information management and human resource management are two main aspects of knowledge management (KM) where organizations can create and utilize innovative ideas by transforming tacit…

Contrary to the general definition of inquiry, Charles Peirce describes inquiry as “the struggle to escape doubt and attain a settled or “fixed” state of belief” (lecture 1/12/17). Based off his definition containing belief and doubt, Peirce would affirm that people are often content with belief and will try to eliminate all traces of doubt. In order to accomplish his definition of “inquiry”, Peirce describes four methods of “fixing belief” that many people tend to choose in order to settle…

Thinking Nursing Paper Kaylie Sorensen St. Catherine’s University Thinking Nursing Paper The nursing metaparadigm can be defined as “the four spheres of nursing knowledge that reflect beliefs held by the profession about nursing’s context and content” (Schim, Benkert, Bell, Walker, & Danford, 2007, pg.73). It is a conceptual framework that nurses use to provide quality care for their patients. The four focus points are nursing, health, person, and environment. Not only should nurses know…

of natural and social sciences including physics, biology, sociology, and geology. According to Cohen (1980), quantitative research is a social research that includes empirical methods as well as empirical statements. Cohen has described empirical statement as a descriptive statement that is about the case of the real world. Empirical statements are expresses in terms of…

today. Through the usage of various symbolisms, The “The Allegory of the Cave” explains the underlying basis of the echo chamber effect and portrays the importance of creating a point of view with knowledge acquired through research rather than from empirical evidence. First, the essay will illustrate the analogy in three parts: imprisonment,…

James demands those who are looking at such topics to look at it under a radical empirical view, therefore looking at it with complete observation instead of merely putting faith into the logic of it (Hood 2002, p. 5). It is important to understand that radical empiricism is not to be seen as manipulative, being through empiricism and…

Goal I The first goal of the program was to “Apply major concepts, theoretical perspectives, empirical findings, and historical trends in psychology to prepare for graduate study or careers in which psychological training is relevant”(). Two classes met this goal, Introduction to Psychology (PSY 111) taken at Anne Arundel Community College, and Introduction to Counseling Psychology (PSYC 432) taken at the University of Maryland University College. Introduction to Psychology was the first…