Where once reasoned debate and knowledgeable evaluation flourished, there are now social networking and marketing algorithms and a nattering gaggle of bloggers.
Universities are special places where intellectual debate and discussion, evaluation of ideas based on facts and evidence, and rigorous questioning of and pushback against those ideas are essential to advancing knowledge, she said.
The adequate experimental design of SCGE trials is still a matter of debate and the evaluation of the available data shows that there is an urgent need to develop guidelines concerning the number of participants, sampling periods, duration of trials, use of placebos, and definition of adequate run-in and wash-out phases.
In light of this new perspective, we introduce here a new hypothesis for debate and further evaluation.
The preference for limb-sparing surgery to treat paediatric lower extremity bone tumours had been the subject of debate and warranted careful evaluation in the past.
In a senior level seminar or design course students might be assigned papers, comprehensive projects, or creative tasks where they must argue, assess, debate, evaluate, defend (evaluation) or compose, construct, design, hypothesize, show, write (creation).
Castles, S. Environmental Change and Forced Migration: Making Sense of the Debate (Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, United Nations High Comissioner for Refugees, 2002).
Hemodynamic monitoring and evaluation is also under debate.
"But over time, it got stilted, and we felt that it was more important that we have good communication than that we have a specific format". Rather than serving as a forum meant to foster rich discussion and debate, a board evaluation that takes too detailed an approach can eventually turn into a mechanical process in which accomplishments are merely checked off.
