Background Simulation plays a vital role in health professions assessment. This review provides a primer on assessment validation for educators and education researchers. We focus on simulation-based assessment of health professionals, but the principles apply broadly to other assessment approaches and topics. Key principles Validation refers to the process of collecting validity evidence to ...

This article discusses challenges of language differences in qualitative research, when participants and the main researcher have the same non-English native language and the non-English data lead to an English publication. Challenges of translation are discussed from the perspective that interpretation of meaning is the core of qualitative research. As translation is also an interpretive act, ...

The aims of this paper are twofold. Firstly, to describe the obstacles that lie in the way of the researcher establishing the truth and how these may be dealt with in terms of research design. Secondly, to provide an overview of the different designs and the trade offs involved. The aim of research should be to establish the truth and research design aims to minimise or exclude the threats to t...

background the current literature proposing criteria and guidelines for collaborative health system research often fails to differentiate between: (a) various types of partnerships, (b) collaborations formed for the specific purpose of developing a research proposal and those based on long-standing relationships, (c) researcher vs. decision-maker initiatives, and (d) the underlying drivers for ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the validity of beachgoers' self-reported sun protection and UV exposure using objective measures. DESIGN Eighty-eight participants completed a brief survey when they arrived at the beach; their skin was swabbed for the presence of sunscreen, while an observer recorded their clothing worn to the beach and the presence of sunburn. On leaving the beach, an exit survey detai...