In a remarkable program, Reach Out and Read, 12,000 doctors, nurses and other providers have volunteered to include instruction on the importance of in-home reading to low-income mothers during pediatric checkups.
Laboratory staff provide instruction on the importance of assay specific QC (e.g., blinded, pooled, blanks and duplicate samples) and help investigators set up appropriate batching of samples for analysis (e.g., mixing of exposed and unexposed in each batch).
It was not possible to blind the radiographers to the paddle used, but they did receive an instruction on the importance of working objectively in order to minimize variation in positioning.
The first thing the game invites you to do is not – as some users might have hoped – kick some terrorist ass, but learn how to fire a gun at a training range, including full instructions on the importance of knowing how to unjam your rifle, conserve ammunition, and fire from standing, kneeling and prone positions.
Students were then provided instruction and evidence on the importance of diversity in teams.
As an example, instructions were given on the importance of checking the blind spot prior to changing lanes.
However, before the start of the study, they received instruction about the importance of objective measurements.
In a national survey, more than 300 college biology faculty agreed on the importance of evolution instruction in introductory biology sequences, including instruction on evolutionary mechanisms and phylogenetics (Gregory et al., 2011).
Our results showed that all the surveyed institutions devoted at least 20 hours to nutrition instruction, which attests to the awareness on the importance of nutrition as a key component of health professionals' education.
Finally, the guidelines (U.S. EPA 2011) limit instructions to obtain raw data "depending on the importance of the open literature study," and appear focused on "missing information" instead of declaring that all raw data underlying studies used in quantitative regulatory determinations should be generally available to the U.S. EPA and the public.
The debate over various educational programs is never ending and has touched on the importance of instructional styles, testing and data-driven programs, innovative hands-on approaches, phonics based instruction, whole language instruction, Singapore math, manipulative based instruction, and rote memorization and it doesn't stop there, the list is also endless.
