introduction: for some time now the field of medical education has been criticized by many of its stakeholders. countless debates have been presented in the literature regarding the quality of medical education research, adequacy of methodological rigor, and other concerns. methods: at present, the views expressed have largely come from physicians and individuals with less familiarity with educ...

ABSTRACT Teaching research design is a core component of political science curriculum. In our pedagogy, we often do two things separately: expecting students to (1) read and digest the work established scholars, (2) explore their own interests in form or paper. reverse design, I bridge these components with pedagogical tool. use published book article relevant course retrace author’s process, p...

1024x768 normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa introduction: the main purpose of this project was exactly identification of the applied researches done by different offices of the iranian ministry of health, remedies and medical education in the deputy between september of 1998 to september of 2003, considering their results and the degree of utilization by the users . methods: this pro...

Recently, design researchers have been interested in observation-analysis approach to study design activities. This is how the annotation and annotation tools have been introduced into the design research. This paper describes the annotation process as an approach in design activity studies and proposes a sequential structure for the annotation process. The research objective is to characterize...

The teaching of research design and data analysis to our graduate students has been a persistent problem. A course is described in which students, early in their graduate training, obtain extensive practice in designing experiments and interpreting data. Lecture-discussions on the essentials of biostatistics are given, and then these essentials are repeatedly reviewed by illustrating their appl...

We describe methods and practices of early user involvement and human-centred design: how researchers and designers, in the ICT industry, attempt to cooperate with end-users, with the goal of making a better match with end-users’ needs and preferences. We describe six (dance) moves: participatory design, ethnographic fieldwork, lead-user approach, contextual design, codesigning, and empathic de...

OBJECTIVE Single-case research allows for an examination of behavior and can demonstrate the functional relation between intervention and outcome in pediatric psychology. This review highlights key assumptions, methodological and design considerations, and options for data analysis. METHODS Single-case methodology and guidelines are reviewed with an in-depth focus on visual and statistical an...

Personas are a powerful design and communication tool to help all those involved in the creation of interactive systems to better focus their efforts on their users. A persona is a fictional character made to represent an archetypal user, and is best derived from field research. They help direct design, and communicate both to marketing and engineering teams.