title: Contemporary Guidance for Stated Preference Studies

authors: Johnston, Robert J.

subjects: Choice experiment

abstract: This article proposes contemporary best-practice recommendations for stated preference (SP) studies used to inform decision making, grounded in the accumulated body of peer-reviewed literature. These recommendations consider the use of SP methods to estimate both use and non-use (passive-use) values, and cover the broad SP domain, including contingent valuation and discrete choice experiments. We focus on applications to public goods in the context of the environment and human health but also consider ways in which the proposed recommendations might apply to other common areas of application. The recommendations recognize that SP results may be used and reused (benefit transfers) by governmental agencies and nongovernmental organizations, and that all such applications must be considered. The intended result is a set of guidelines for SP studies that is more comprehensive than that of the original National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Blue Ribbon Panel on contingent valuation, is more germane to contemporary applications, and reflects the two decades of research since that time. We also distinguish between practices for which accumulated research is sufficient to support recommendations and those for which greater uncertainty remains. The goal of this article is to raise the quality of SP studies used to support decision making and promote research that will further enhance the practice of these studies worldwide.

text: Contemporary Guidance for Stated Preference Studies This article proposes contemporary best-practice recommendations for stated preference (SP) studies used to inform decision making, grounded in the accumulated body of peer-reviewed literature. These recommendations consider the use of SP methods to estimate both use and non-use (passive-use) values, and cover the broad SP domain, including contingent valuation and discrete choice experiments. We focus on applications to public goods in the context of the environment and human health but also consider ways in which the proposed recommendations might apply to other common areas of application. The recommendations recognize that SP results may be used and reused (benefit transfers) by governmental agencies and nongovernmental organizations, and that all such applications must be considered. The intended result is a set of guidelines for SP studies that is more comprehensive than that of the original National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Blue Ribbon Panel on contingent valuation, is more germane to contemporary applications, and reflects the two decades of research since that time. We also distinguish between practices for which accumulated research is sufficient to support recommendations and those for which greater uncertainty remains. The goal of this article is to raise the quality of SP studies used to support decision making and promote research that will further enhance the practice of these studies worldwide.

year: 2017

title: From policy to pedagogy: prudence and precariousness; actors and artefacts

authors: Penney, Dawn

subjects: health and physical education

abstract: This paper draws on concepts from contemporary education policy sociology to explore the prospective interpretation, contextualisation and enactment of Health and Physical Education in the Australian Curriculum. Analysis examines the dynamic between characteristics of official texts and the contexts in which responses will be made. The paper identifies the consultation draft curriculum as highly flexible, such that multiple aspects of past and current policy contexts can be expected to strongly frame its reading and enactment. Exploration of contexts points to the critical role that policy actors, agencies and artefacts will all play in determining the ways in which the new curriculum will be expressed and experienced in schools across Australia. Discussion raises issues for Health and Physical Education teachers, teacher educators and members of professional associations to consider in looking forward.

text: From policy to pedagogy: prudence and precariousness; actors and artefacts This paper draws on concepts from contemporary education policy sociology to explore the prospective interpretation, contextualisation and enactment of Health and Physical Education in the Australian Curriculum. Analysis examines the dynamic between characteristics of official texts and the contexts in which responses will be made. The paper identifies the consultation draft curriculum as highly flexible, such that multiple aspects of past and current policy contexts can be expected to strongly frame its reading and enactment. Exploration of contexts points to the critical role that policy actors, agencies and artefacts will all play in determining the ways in which the new curriculum will be expressed and experienced in schools across Australia. Discussion raises issues for Health and Physical Education teachers, teacher educators and members of professional associations to consider in looking forward.

year: 2013

title: Kaupapa Maori research: An indigenous approach to creating knowledge

authors: Bishop, Russell

subjects: Maori

abstract: This paper seeks to identify how issues of epistemological racism are addressed in practice
within an indigenous Kaupapa (philosophy) Maori approach to research, and how such
considerations may impact on the Western trained and positioned researcher. One fundamental
understanding to a Kaupapa Maori approach to research is that it is the discursive practice
that is Kaupapa Maori that positions researchers in such a way as to operationalise selfdetermination
(agentic positioning and behaviour) for research participants. This is because the
cultural aspirations, understandings and practices of Maori people implement and organise the
research process. Further, the research issues of power; initiation, benefits, representation,
legitimation, and accountability are addressed and understood in practice by practitioners of
Kaupapa Maori research through the development of a participatory mode of consciousness.

text: Kaupapa Maori research: An indigenous approach to creating knowledge This paper seeks to identify how issues of epistemological racism are addressed in practice
within an indigenous Kaupapa (philosophy) Maori approach to research, and how such
considerations may impact on the Western trained and positioned researcher. One fundamental
understanding to a Kaupapa Maori approach to research is that it is the discursive practice
that is Kaupapa Maori that positions researchers in such a way as to operationalise selfdetermination
(agentic positioning and behaviour) for research participants. This is because the
cultural aspirations, understandings and practices of Maori people implement and organise the
research process. Further, the research issues of power; initiation, benefits, representation,
legitimation, and accountability are addressed and understood in practice by practitioners of
Kaupapa Maori research through the development of a participatory mode of consciousness.

year: 1999