BACKGROUND The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial (SW-CRT) is increasingly being used to evaluate policy or service delivery interventions. However, there is a dearth of trials literature addressing analytical approaches to the SW-CRT. Perhaps as a result, a significant number of published trials have major methodological shortcomings, including failure to adjust for secular trends at the a...

It may fairly be claimed that up to the last decade no antiepileptic drug (AED) had undergone rigorous testing. Coatsworth I in a comprehensive review of AED assessment reported three controlled trials up to 1971, and Richens (1976) was able to identify some 17. Gram and coworkers found 51 by 1982, but the majority suffered gross methodological deficiencies. In the past decade the situation has...

Possibilities and limitations in the biomechanical analysis of countermovement jump performance were examined using force plate data. Four male and 4 female sport students participated in the study. Software designed to test jumping performance was used to evaluate recordings from a force plate and to compute net velocity and net displacement measures for the center of gravity. In parallel, a f...

Research on immigrant communities has often been reductionist, stereotypical, and simplistic, and even the most well-intentioned researchers are susceptible to using cultural deficit models. This chapter critically evaluates some of the dominant tensions and problem areas with respect to researching immigrant communities. Specifically, we analyze three primary challenges that researchers encoun...

Parental age is increasing rapidly in many countries. Analysis of this potentially important influence on offspring well-being is hampered by strong secular trends and socioeconomic patterning and by a shortage of follow-up data for adult offspring. We used Swedish national data on up to 3,653,938 offspring to consider the associations of parental age with a suite of outcomes in adult offspring...

Introduction It is widely acknowledged that information and communication technologies (ICT) open up new possibilities for research in terms of both adapting existing methodologies to a new medium and in creating new methodological possibilities. Several specialist textbooks on online research have recently been published to help researchers explore these new methodological possibilities Numero...

In this paper we discuss some basic methodological considerations of the activities undertaken in the ACL-SIGSEM Working Group on the Representation of Multimodal Semantic Information. This independent expert group was founded on the instigation of the International Organization for Standardisation ISO for investigating the possibilities to develop well-founded guidelines for the representation...

In this comment, I first highlight the contributions of Robinson-Cimpian, Lubienski, Ganley, and Copur-Gencturk (2014) in particular and a more interdisciplinary approach in general for the subdiscipline of developmental psychology. Second, I identify some historic methodological foci of psychology and encourage Robinson-Cimpian et al. to consider these possibilities. Finally, I end with my per...

In the context of digital pedagogy, internet communication platforms, media interfaces, applications, and info-communication tools, best practices are stepping up in educational process forming a methodology. The focus areas targeted by questionnaire presented this study transformation; smart use tools; characteristics learning environment; classroom activities, organization, methodology; conte...