Hi Mark,
I would be interested in getting involved, particualrly if there is any
literature on the teaching of business and management related
subjects.
Regards,
Helen
On 14 Jan 2005, at 11:29, Mark Newman wrote:
> Dear colleagues
>
> Along with colleagues who completed the Pilot Systematic review of the
> Effectiveness of Problem Based Learning I am planning to submit an
> application for funding for a full systematic review in response to
> the recent call for proposals by the English Higher Education Academy
> http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/researchprojects.htm.
>
> We have only just found out about this call and the deadline for
> expressions of interest is 21/01/05. As a group we are keen to expand
> the number of people in the field interested and involved in a
> systematic reviews of this kind and in particular to involve people
> from disciplines other than the health sciences where quite a few of
> us teach and research at present. We will be working on the
> expression of interest over the next few days but as things stand the
> parameters that are pretty much set so far are
>
> 1) proposal will be full review of the effectiveness of PBL in HE/
> professional Education 2) protocol will basically be that which we
> used in the pilot review - up dated and modified a) for a full
> systematic review b) in the light of our experience with review 1 c)
> to fit the EPPI Centre SR approach A copy of the protocol for the
> pilot review can be found in the report at
> http://www.ltsn-01.ac.uk/resources/features/pbl
>
> 3) This will be an EPPI Centre Systematic Review - There are two
> stages to the review process. First is a descriptive map of all
> studies which meet the initial inclusion criteria. Second is and
> 'in-depth review' of subset of these studies focussing on one
> particular aspect. Given the funding limitations. We may just do a
> one stage in depth review. The data extraction tools are all in a web
> based on line system
>
> You can see examples of reviews on the EPPI website.
> http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPIWeb/home.aspx?page=/reel/intro.htm. I would
> look at the various Reviews of English teaching as these tend to be
> effectiveness questions.
>
> 4) Using the review process as a structure I imagine the workload will
> be divided along the following lines
>
> 1) modification of Protocol - MN lead (EPPI)
> 2) Searching (EPPI)
> 3) Screening for inclusion (EPPI plus at least one other)
> 4) Data Extraction (ALL)
> 5) Report Writing (EPPI lead)
> 6) Publication (Copy editing, Editorial, Publication on website -
> Press release (EPPI) 7) Information management (EPPI) 8) Quality
> Assurance processes (All -plus EPPI)
>
> 5) There is not much money available - the HEA say £25,000 but
> confusingly say exceptional cases up to £50k would be available. The
> EPPI centre estimates that a full SR carried out in house should be
> costed at between 60-80k. Based on the division of labour envisioned
> above the largest share of the funding would go to the EPPI Centre
> with other participants receiving perhaps a nominal amount but
> essentially arguing that they would be making an additional
> contribution in kind. Participants would however gain experience and
> training in systematic reviewing, would certainly increase their
> knowledge of the PBL literature and based on our experience with the
> pilot review publications will attract a lot of international
> interest.
>
> If you would be interested in participating in some way with this
> review please get in touch with me ASAP.
>
> regards
>
> Mark
>
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> Mark Newman
> Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre
> (EPPI- Centre) Social Science Research Unit (SSRU) Institute of
> Education University of London 18 Woburn Square London WC1H 0NR
>
> Tel: +44 (0) 207 612 6575
> Fax: +44 (0) 207 612 6400
>
>
>
Mrs Helen Crabtree,
School of Management,
University of Salford.
Salford M5 4WT
0161-295-2126
0161-295-2126
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