To make the transition into school teaching, Leah Cataldo approached her new career as if it was a lab experiment, doing the required preliminary investigations, fieldwork, and feasibility testing.
I began to gather information about teaching as if I were planning an experiment that required preliminary investigations, fieldwork, and feasibility testing.
The content and structure of this manual has been developed and tested through fieldwork involving extension agents and agricultural producers in Zambia, Malawi and Viet Nam.
In the first section of this article, we present one example from research to illustrate the efficacy of the method and also to highlight how the method was developed and tested out in fieldwork.
Some argue that VFGs cannot, and will not, replace the tried and tested method of real fieldwork (Arrowsmith et al., 2005).
The course takes a "joint-discovery" approach with substantial emphasis on research and group project work, some fieldwork, and online individual testing.
We have recently described the development, internal validation and fieldwork testing of the Identification and Interventions for Dementia in Elderly Africans (IDEA) study cognitive screening tool [ 6].
The AUROC curve was generally higher than seen during internal validation and fieldwork testing in Tanzania [ 6].
The training included practice of the technique of conducting a facilitated interview and fieldwork for pilot testing of the usability and clarity of the study instrument.
TTTN: Fieldwork and data collection, laboratory tests, data management PTG: Fieldwork and data collection, data management LQH: Fieldwork and data collection, data management TQB: Fieldwork and data collection, data management, logistics and local scientific supervision, review and corrections of manuscript.
T.T. Nga: Fieldwork and data collection, laboratory tests, datamanagement, analysis and statistics, writing manuscript Peter J. de Vries: Study design, fieldwork and data collection, datamanagement, analysis and statistics, writing manuscript.
