PRECIS-2 helps researchers design more applicable RCTs while CONSORT Extension for Pragmatic Trials helps knowledge users decide whether to apply them

EEG Helps Knowledge Tracing!

Knowledge tracing (KT) is widely used in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) to measure student learning. Inexpensive portable electroencephalography (EEG) devices are viable as a way to help detect a number of student mental states relevant to learning, e.g. engagement or attention. In this paper, we combine such EEG measures with KT to improve estimates of the students’ hidden knowledge state....

How open science helps researchers succeed

Open access, open data, open source and other open scholarship practices are growing in popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been achieved. One reason is that researchers are uncertain about how sharing their work will affect their careers. We review literature demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media atte...

CONSORT statement: extension to cluster randomised trials.

Improving the reporting of pragmatic trials: an extension of the CONSORT statement

BACKGROUND The CONSORT statement is intended to improve reporting of randomised controlled trials and focuses on minimising the risk of bias (internal validity). The applicability of a trial's results (generalisability or external validity) is also important, particularly for pragmatic trials. A pragmatic trial (a term first used in 1967 by Schwartz and Lellouch) can be broadly defined as a ran...

Local knowledge helps determine protein structures.

T he nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) has been the workhorse of structural studies of macromolecules in solution by NMR spectroscopy. The NOE is a measure of the rate of magnetization transfer between nuclei, induced by modulation of the magnetic dipole–dipole coupling between nuclear spins by overall tumbling of the molecule in solution (1). The efficiency of magnetization transfer via this mec...