Edited by Alfred Anate Bodurin Mayaki, Saturday, 19 Apr 2025, 12:35
So, I just completed 'Module 1: An Introduction to Systematic Reviews' yesterday - it is an online short course offered by Cochrane Training, and I am now a pleased bunny. Here's why:
a) The article I am about to read from the Open University Library entitled: "Embracing Translational HRD Research for Evidence-Based Management: Let's Talk About How to Bridge the Research-Practice Gap" by Gubbins and Rousseau (2015) was found after I pursued a hunch I had.
b) That hunch was that theremust be a model in place that clearly explains how HRD Evidence, Strategy, and Policy are correlated in an orderly manner. After scouring another article by Nimon and Astakhova (2015) entitled "Improving the Rigor of Quantitative HRD Research: Four Recommendations in Support of the General Hierarchy of Evidence," I stumbled on the FINER (Feasible, Interesting, Novel, Ethical, Relevant) model, and by extension, the SPIDER model (sample, phenomenon of interest, design, evaluation, research type), which is "designed specifically to identify relevant qualitative and mixed-method studies" (Methley, Campbell and Chew-Grahamet. al., 2014).
c) However, I realised quite quickly that FINER albeit a good model, wasn't enough of a repetitive approach, so I ran to Cochrane's online course (it's in my tabs) to quickly learn about PICO - i.e., the systematic approach mandating "Participants, Interventions, Comparisons, and Outcomes" as structured interrelational components. All well-conducted systematic reviews always start by stating the question in PICO form!
To recap:
Define question - I learned via Cochrane how PICO helps to define the research question in a more systematic format than FINER (and possibly more than SPIDER)
Plan criteria - I learned about study protocols, which are plans that must be made for the systematic review to be conducted
Conduct a review - this links back to the idea of my model in my previous post.
Wish me luck as I read Gubbins and Rousseau (2015).
CPD, Cochrane and Systematic Reviews
So, I just completed 'Module 1: An Introduction to Systematic Reviews' yesterday - it is an online short course offered by Cochrane Training, and I am now a pleased bunny. Here's why:
Wish me luck as I read Gubbins and Rousseau (2015).