A criticism of happiness research is that it often relies on what a person says about his or her own happiness. Calling a self-report measure of happiness "subjective well-being" seems not to help ...

A new study has found that subjective evaluations are comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness taken from a teacher's first year in the classroom. A study ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. There are a variety of tools that can help researchers analyze large volumes of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The call by educational researchers for the methodological management of the self is placed within a discussion on modes of consciousness. The ...

Most academic disciplines belonging to broad category of social sciences are intrinsically interpretative. This is because any claimed addition/contribution to ‘knowledge’ in any branch of social ...

Children aged 7, 10, and 14 years were administered questions and an imitation task to assess their comprehension of the objectivity-subjectivity distinction. Objective matters were defined as those ...

Among people who report memory and thinking problems, some show no signs of a problem on standard tests, while others have subtle declines on their tests. A new study shows that people who have subtle ...

Subjectivity plays an important, yet dangerous, role in risk management. By its very nature, subjective perspectives are held in the mind of the beholder, and, as a result, are dependent on the ...

I’ve heard professors get frustrated that students can’t tell them what a text means, but the same students can explain what a text means to them. There was a time when people emphasized the objective ...