How do you gather hard evidence of effectiveness?
He argued that there had been no previous national effort to gather "hard data," rather than survey-based research, to quantify voting problems.
In the opposite camp, supporters of project-based learning point to research conducted by the Buck Institute for Education in the US, and hope to gather hard evidence here to support their case.
And so that's what the crew is testing.While Babbage has already enjoyed some surprisingly delicious meals made from freeze-dried and powdered ingredients a cheese omelette and a cabbage soup with pelmeni, just to name two the crux of this mission is to gather hard data.
Since MIT has become increasingly sophisticated about designing for sustainability — and Sloan is a premier example — Facilities used a blower-door test to gather hard data on the building's performance for ASHRAE, which will use the information to develop more accurate industry guidelines.
Cheetahs are both fast and secretive, making them challenging to study, says study leader Sarah Durant of the Zoological Society of London and Wildlife Conservation Society: "Given the secretive nature of this elusive cat, it has been difficult to gather hard information on the species, leading to its plight being overlooked.
This practice, called "analogic perspective taking," seemed to be very effective -- but the lab's director, David Fleischer, wanted to see if researchers could gather hard data to show whether or not the method was working.
The objectives of AÉTMIS's assessment were: (a) to gather hard data on the clinical use of PET in different fields, in particular, oncology, neurology and cardiology; and (b) to make recommendations concerning the possible deployment of PET in Québec.
Design and conduct a survey to gather hard facts on potential clients in the area.
Humans also like to share what they enjoy; hence all the user-generated playlists at sites like Amazon or eMusic, the inevitable lists of favorite bands and films on social networking sites and the proliferation of music blogs, like fluxblog.org or obscuresound.com, that gather hard-to-find songs for listeners to download directly.
