The importance of conducting and reporting pilot studies: the example of the Scottish Births Survey

Teijlingen, Edwin van; Rennie, Anne Marie; Hundley, Vanora; Graham, Wendy

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01757.x

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“…Chan and Jarman (2004) suggested introducing departmentalization into the school by piloting the change with only the students whose parents request participation (p. 70). Piloting such a substantial change allows stakeholders to test its full-scale feasibility, identify potential problems, plan for logistical efficiency, and collect data to support the change (van Teijlingen & Hundley, 2001). …”

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Comparison of Self-Contained and Departmentalized Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Classroom Structure and Job Satisfaction

Strohl

Schmertzing

et al. 2014

JSE

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Most elementary schools adhere to a self-contained format to deliver student instruction. This case study explored the implementation of a nontraditional format typically used in middle and high schools known as departmentalized instruction. Twelve of 29 first through third grade teachers were asked by their administration to implement departmentalized instruction for a trial year. This study compares levels of perceived stress and morale in relation to job satisfaction between the departmentalized teachers and self-contained teachers within the same school. This case study utilized focus group interviews as well as data collected from pre-and post-surveys comprised of Likert-scaled items and open-ended questions. The survey responses informed the study about various dimensions of teacher morale and job satisfaction and the focus groups informed the study about departmentalized teachers' own comparison between the two models of instruction. Consistent with related literature, findings revealed departmentalized teachers experienced higher morale, lighter workload, and increased overall job satisfaction in comparison to self-contained teachers in the same school. Further, in comparison to their prior self-contained teaching experiences, departmentalized teachers overwhelmingly preferred the new structure.

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Comparison of Self-Contained and Departmentalized Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Classroom Structure and Job Satisfaction

Strohl

Schmertzing

et al. 2014

JSE

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“…3,4 Pilot studies are the primary source of information for power calculations, giving information on variable distributions and effect sizes. 5,6 A pilot of 20 samples has been suggested as sufficient to perform robust power analysis. 7,8,9 The protocol used in the pilot and main studies should be identical.…”

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Power Analysis and Sample Size Determination in Metabolic Phenotyping

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Estimation of statistical power and sample size is a key aspect of experimental design.However, in metabolic phenotyping, there is currently no accepted approach for these tasks, in large part due to the unknown nature of the expected effect. In such hypothesis free science, neither the number or class of important analytes, nor the effect size are known a priori. We introduce a new approach, based on multivariate simulation, which deals effectively with the highly correlated structure and high-dimensionality of metabolic phenotyping data. First, a large data set is simulated based on the characteristics of a pilot study investigating a given biomedical issue. An effect of a given size, corresponding either to a discrete (classification) or continuous (regression) outcome is then added. Different sample sizes are modeled by randomly selecting data sets of various sizes from the simulated data.We investigate different methods for effect detection, including univariate and multivariate techniques. Our framework allows us to investigate the complex relationship between sample size, power and effect size for real multivariate data sets. elegans.

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“…Even though reporting pilot studies is rare in the research literature (Teijlingen van et al 2001), the study of Friedman (2013) provided reasons to report the results of pilot stu dies, for example but not limited to, the results of pilot studies might be useful to others; meta analyses studies incorporate not just the data from the large studies, but from smaller ones including the pilot studies; finally, if the pilot study does not lean to a full scale trial, it may be particularly important for other researchers to understand why it did not. In fact, such reasons are logical.…”

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A Pilot Study: Vital Methodological Issues

Hazzi

Maldaon

2015

Business: Theory and Practice

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Abstract.A pilot study represents a vital step for conducting a full fledged study soundly. In fact, a well conducted pilot study can help the researchers to design a clear road map they can follow. Conducting a pilot study professionally, however, involves vital quantitative methodological issues (i.e., Back Translation, Missing Data, Normality, and Reliability) the researchers had better take into account when conducting the pilot study and before embarking the main one. Unfortunately, such issues are neglected in many researches as well as barely addressed together in a one work in research papers. From the literature and the experience, the present work aims to address the most recommended practices of such methodological issues providing at the same time the best practices for new researchers and scholars alike, with a view to reduce the loss of suffered by research com munity when such issues and practices remain unpublished together. Suggestions and thoughts were also demonstrated in this work for further researches. Finally, the importance of such research for business sector was also demonstrated in this work.

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The importance of conducting and reporting pilot studies: the example of the Scottish Births Survey

Cited by 232 publications

References 14 publications

Comparison of Self-Contained and Departmentalized Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Classroom Structure and Job Satisfaction

Comparison of Self-Contained and Departmentalized Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Classroom Structure and Job Satisfaction

Power Analysis and Sample Size Determination in Metabolic Phenotyping

A Pilot Study: Vital Methodological Issues

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