These links and their operational channels and pathways are actively constructed, planned, governed and maintained.
As recognized in the National Science Education Standards, Studentt understanding is actively constructed through individual and social processes" (NRC, 1996, p. 29).
It is precisely because health services research is a language space in which the nature of, and evidence for, healthcare is actively constructed that the general separation of the nursing concept from the patient concept is highly significant.
Therefore, people are actively constructing their identity through a more reflexive and self-determining process than perhaps was done in the past and are more inclined to question authority and trust, which is reflected in attitudes towards the medical profession [ 39, 40].
Specifically, it measures the extent to which students are actively constructing knowledge.
The theoretical framework for this study is based on understanding learning as a process where an individual actively constructs and develops knowledge and skills in interaction with other individuals and the environment [ 18– 218.
Wittrock's (1990) generative theory stresses the importance of learners actively constructing and developing relationships.
Common to all these active-learning strategies is the acknowledgment that learning is a phenomenon of the human brain, and the individuals doing the learning must be actively involved in constructing meaning, examining their prior ideas, and resolving conceptual confusions, just as scientists do in their own efforts to learn how the natural world works.
I couldn't have felt more validated when Catherine Parsonage wrote about my opera Bandanna, "Hagen's style encourages audiences to be actively involved in constructing their own meanings from the richness of the textual and musical cross-references in his work," for I believe this is exactly the sort of open mind Bernstein penned MASS for.
As advocates for quality health care, it is my fervent belief that clinicians should be actively involved in critically evaluating EBM constructs and in promoting the need for flexibility in scientific methods in order to answer clinically important questions in the most practical way.
