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Beginning the Evaluation of Family Science Programs
Wesley Burr,Jay Schvaneveldt,George Roleder,Christina Marshall +3 more
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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.Abstract:
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 noread more
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Teaching About Family Science as a Discipline
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Famology: A New Discipline.
Wesley R. Burr,Geoffrey K. Leigh +1 more
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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The Quality of Graduate Education in Political Science: A Report on the New Rankings
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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.