Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"We might play Kevin Boyle [a freshman guard], bring him up from the j.v. But to tell you the truth, I'm not really sure. We'll experiment with different options," McLaughlin said Tuesday, adding, "But I'll tell you one thing, you can count Monroe [Trout, a six-ft...
...experiment that would test his method of teaching algebra against the standard texts. He also persuaded the Oklahoma Federation of Teachers to oversee the experiment and certify the results. In all, 1,360 students participated The control group consisted of 841 who used the regular textbooks, while an experimental group of 519 used Saxon's text-Algebra I, an Incremental Development. In each school the same teacher taught one section using Saxon and one or more classes using the standard text. The 16 short tests taken during 1980-81 were drawn from questions submitted by the teachers themselves...
Last May, two researchers in a laboratory at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) saw Dr. John R. Darsee, a research fellow in Medicine, deliberately mislabel a set of results in an experiment on the cause of heart attacks in research animals.
McLaughlin thought the experiment with the zone worked well and promised that the Crimson would try it again against other quick teams. Looking a little glum after dropping an intra-family contest to brother Tom, the UMass coach, he complained that each of the Crimson's last three losses came...
In a time of such intense competition, a researcher who happens to suspect chicanery by a rival may be only too willing to blow the whistle. Scientists also like to point out that science was long protected from fraud by a built-in safety mechanism: to be generally accepted, experiments...