In education, often the methods are more relaxed as generally education papers do not meet the high quality standards of medical papers and their research designs. I have written ones on education subjects – and here too, they are useful to pool knowledge about best practice, or to evaluate new innovations in teaching for example.
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For more in-depth undergraduate projects, and certainly for full systematic reviews, the details on the right hand side would need to be fully understood and reported.įIGURE 1 Overview of the systematic approach CC BY SA Viv Rolfeįull systematic reviews can be conducted on any subject, not just medical ones. The steps highlighted below would also provide you with a methodology and the basis of a methods section for a dissertation.įigure 1 illustrates the systematic approach. The details on the left hand side are the minimum approach that could be undertaken in an essay or piece of desk-top research. Why do I mention systematic reviews in relation to desk-top research? Well – if you understand the premise and approaches of a systematic review and apply them to your essays, coursework and dissertations, then you will be undertaking a high quality piece of work (or suggesting a high quality assignment if you are setting the work). Medical systematic reviews are conducted and published through the Cochrane Library named after Archie Cochrane a Scottish doctor who established the idea of evidence-based medicine. The result should be a robust and reliable assimilation of evidence in order to reach a reliable conclusion. The word “ systematic” in relation to a review involves the use of precise methods to gather and assess the results of research publications that (most importantly) minimises bias within the process.
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