1.   From this starting point, four theoretical ideas are identified which can contribute to a practice of affirmative assessment.

2.   It would not be based upon theoretical ideas which were held to have generality beyond a socio-historical context.

3.   Side by side, teacher and pupil should test and render practical any theoretical ideas that were presented.

4.   Theoretical ideas are connected to the world by a translation into an empirical language more closely attuned to the observable world.

5.   This theoretical tradition was that of social liberalism developing the evolutionary and organicist elements of this approach into elaborate bodies of theoretical ideas.

6.   Whatever theoretical ideas inform the research will have to be translated into questions, or statements, which can be administered to a relevant respondent.

7.   The ways in which this transition can occur form a topic central to theoretical ideas about deterministic chaos.

8.   Tom Crow, the director of the Getty Research Institute, said the theoretical ideas from art history and the social sciences are finally seeping into museums.