The discoveries, such as the very precise carbon dating and medical evidence, will serve as a benchmark for other studies.
Although this study aims to contribute to a validity argument in our local context, these findings may be able to serve as evidence or as a benchmark for comparison with other studies in similar contexts.
The findings also suggest that inferences from cross-sectional studies done in certain geographic areas with different socio-cultural, economic, political and historical context cannot be extrapolated as logical benchmarks for other areas.
The survey will have future value in providing a benchmark against which other studies could be measured and in providing a 'template' that could be adjusted to local circumstances for similar studies to be undertaken in other settings.
Rural historical geographies have been dominated by a Eurocentric discourse in which European rural society and environment have been the benchmarks for historical studies in other parts of the world.
Nonetheless the findings from Oswald et al's 17 study sets a benchmark for other similar community teaching within the UK.
Although learning gains observed in other studies offer one potential benchmark, cross-study comparisons can be difficult.
These institutions were taken as the benchmark to generate ideas for improvements for the other study sites.
It sets the benchmark for other savings accounts too.
"One challenge is that I don't become a benchmark for other people," he said.
"They've set a new benchmark for other teams to follow," said Stajcic.
