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Record W2765522176 · doi:10.26685/urncst.14

Research Fundamentals: The Research Question, Outcomes, and Background

2017· article· en· W2765522176 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Umair Majid

Bibliographic record

VenueUndergraduate Research in Natural and Clinical Science and Technology (URNCST) Journal · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicOptimism, Hope, and Well-being
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMcMaster University
KeywordsProtocol (science)PublishingResearch proposalResearch designComputer scienceEngineering ethicsLibrary scienceData scienceSocial scienceSociologyAlternative medicineMedicinePolitical scienceEngineering

Abstract

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This first article in a three-part series on research fundamentals describes the purpose and importance of writing a research protocol a priori to the research study and discusses three components of a research protocol for a clinical, quantitative research study. These components include the research question, outcomes and the background section including a literature review. By using the author’s personal experience in writing and editing research protocols for international, peer-reviewed journals, and reviewing the literature on writing high quality research manuscripts, protocols and proposals, this three-part series provides a guideline for undergraduate researchers interested in publishing their research protocol in the Undergraduate Research in Natural and Clinical Sciences and Technology (URNCST) Journal.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.079
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.318
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0790.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0100.029
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0010.010
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.205
GPT teacher head0.555
Teacher spread0.350 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations8
Published2017
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