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Beginning the Evaluation of Family Science Programs

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The sample is therdore'small and accidental, but even with theserimitations, if appropiate care is tuken in how the finding is done, if Approaches to begin conecting inr, a4rur*y.
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considerabre data have been gathered on Ameican graduate programs for over five deca.d3s, but none b1 tne surveys have iituded fam,y science progroms. This smdy is ctn ottempt to begin conecting inr, a4rur*y. The datu rcpofted here are from anonymousry compreted questionnaires from 5s professionars who weie inteniew;d as 'paft oi a fact finding tour of famity science programs. The sample is therdore'small and accidental, but even with theserimitations, if appropiate care is tuken in how the findingsoa.re use4 the data or, 6ati, tian the previous condition of no

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Teaching About Family Science as a Discipline

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the ethics, theories, and methodologies that many scholars believe should be included in the study of marriage and family and provide a discourse on whether or not a separate discipline of family science exists today.
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Family Research in the 1980's

TL;DR: A study was undertaken of the publications frequently used by family reserrchers in order to determine whether academic departments made major contributions to the field of famiiy studies.
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Professional Training in Family Science: A Review of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

TL;DR: A review of underyraduate and graduate programs is presented to identify some of the similaities and dffirences in family science depaftments, especially in terms of strucfiue, emphases, and adnission citeia.
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Documenting Departmental Performance in Family Science

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the sources available for documenting performance and success in family science programs, with consideration given to their strengths and weaknesses as well as to how well family science as a discipline is represented in them.
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Famology: A New Discipline.

TL;DR: This paper examined some literature about the emergence of disciplines and tried to identify: (a) the processes that fields go through in becoming disciplines, and (b) the criteria for determining when an area of study is a discipline.
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Ranking the Law Schools: The Reality of Illusion?

TL;DR: In this paper, the problems inherent in any endeavor to rank law schools on a qualitative basis were examined and it was concluded that attempting to assign specific rankings based on objective criteria is a futile task.
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Family Research in the 1980's

TL;DR: A study was undertaken of the publications frequently used by family reserrchers in order to determine whether academic departments made major contributions to the field of famiiy studies.