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Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...statistical analysis modelled on it to engage in the careful measurement of phenomena. Positivists favour quantitative data. Positivists seek causal or statistical relationships among variables. Because of this, ontologically, people and their behaviours are considered variables. Positivists treat individuals as separate units, as the objects or subjects of a study....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...statistics that suggest that girls are less likely than boys to commit violent crimes). In the final two pictures, however, vulnerability and innocence have gone and been replaced with images of children as threatening and dangerous. The fact that they are male might encourage the conclusion that they are violent. Their age is also significant. Teenagers are more likely...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...statistics any longer because the only statistics that are actually being kept are those who are on the register. So if your child isn’t on the register you don’t even appear in the workload of a local authority once you are weeded out. So, all those people have to find a way of putting their lives back together with all the drain that that has on GPs and hospitals...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...statistics, annual official statistics on judicial diversity in England and Wales covering the current judiciary, judicial appointments and legal professions. London: Ministry of Justice. Byrne v Deane [1937] 2 All ER 204 Cambridge Water v Eastern Counties Leather [1994] 2 WLKR 53 Collins v Wilcock [1984] 1 WLR 1177 Rylands v Fletcher (1865) 3 H&C 774 Sim v Stretch [1936]...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...statistics? We think our towns grow like weeds, but London seems to grow half such a weed as Chicago in a single night. After we were got well into the town, we found ourselves part of an immense bicycle parade, with bicyclers of both sexes on their wheels, in masks and costumes, Pierrots, and Clowns, and Harlequins and Columbines, in a competition for the prettiest and...
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Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...statistical understanding that allows learners to test and weigh up many political claims and can develop an understanding of probability that assists learners in making sense of risk, chance and prediction. By working mathematically students can build up a cognitive toolbox that can help them function as a full member of a modern, democratic society. The reason that many...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...statistics. The government wants the teacher–pupil ratio in schools to be increased to one teacher to thirty pupils or less. The birth rate has fallen: the ratio of children to women of child bearing age has gone down. It used to be 2.4 to 1, and now it is 1.9 to 1. Predictions for the ratio of working adults to retired adults is disturbing. Predictions are, that by...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...statistical process control in manufacturing, argue that well-managed work processes must be fully documented, with clearly defined control points. Managers can improve a process, they believe, only if they first measure it with accuracy and assure its stability. After improvement, continuous monitoring is required to maintain the gains and ensure that the process...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs