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Charge: To promote and develop competencies around evidence synthesis including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, and other related methods of research synthesis, through activities such as: Facilitating discussion and peer-support; Creating and managing a resource page; Encouraging programming and publications around systematic reviews through ACRL.
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  • 1.  ROB tool for education studies?

    Posted May 12, 2022 12:46 PM
    Hello! Can anyone recommend a risk of bias tool suitable for use with interventional education studies? From what I have seen, most studies of classroom interventions are quasi-randomized at best, and rarely every truly randomized, and student equivalences across comparison groups may or may not have been established (nor group size equivalances). So i was wondering if there is a tool that might be more appropriate in this context.

    Thanks for anything you can share!
    Jane

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    Jane Yatcilla
    Health & Life Sciences Information Specialist
    Purdue University Libraries
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  • 2.  RE: ROB tool for education studies?

    Posted May 12, 2022 09:39 PM
    Hi! You can see what we're doing in this Campbell review regarding RoB. I'm a co-author but not involved in this phase of the research.
    PROTOCOL: The effects of flipped classrooms to improve learning outcomes in undergraduate health professional education: A systematic review https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cl2.1041

    Other reviews from the Campbell Education Coordinating Group (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)1891-1803.education) will likely reveal other ideas.

    Also, check out the Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse Handbook. See section II. RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AND QUASI-EXPERIMENTALDESIGNS


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    Amy Riegelman (she, her, hers)
    Social Sciences Librarian




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