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Resources: Guides

A wealth of information about Catalpa Services, how to design and conduct visits and research results that have been constructed from Catalpa’s work in implementing visit technology.

Catalpa Ltd. Assuring Legitimacy of Practice-Based Inquiry®: Certification of Team Members and Chairs to Lead Teams. Catalpa Ltd. October 2006. View

This Catalpa Handbook describes the Catalpa program for certifying team members and team chairs. It describes the skills and qualifications required for different levels of PBI® chairs and the steps in the Catalpa certification process.

Catalpa Ltd. Assuring the Legitimacy of Practice-Based Inquiry® Visits: The Preparation, Review and Accreditation of a Practice-Based Inquiry® Visit Protocol. Catalpa Ltd. October 2006. View

This Catalpa Guide provides the protocol designer with the procedures, outline and standards that the protocol must meet to receive accreditation by Catalpa Ltd. as a PBI® Visit protocol.

Catalpa Ltd. How to Construct Legitimate PBI® Conclusions. Catalpa Ltd. October 2006. View

This PBI® Guide informs a team chair about how to facilitate a team in its primary work of constructing conclusions.

Catalpa Ltd. How to use the PBI® Foundation Elements. Catalpa Ltd. October 2006. View

This PBI® Guide provides guidance about how chairs should use the foundation elements in the team room.

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Resources

Click on the title of each document. That will take you to the text that is most easily available to you from the Catalpa site. Many of the documents you may download.

Catalpa does charge for a limited number of documents. Others are only available from publishers. We ask that you work within these boundaries, understanding the tensions involved with internet “intellectual rights” issues. We have established these boundaries to respect agreements with clients, as well as to fashion a reasonable compromise between Catalpa’s purpose of advocating for better practices “to bring professional practice into focus” and its need to support its work.

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Catalpa Case Studies

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---- James D. Watson , Biologist

 

 


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