Oriokot Loraine, Buwembo William, Munabi Ian G, Kijjambu Stephen C
Department of Human Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, New Mulago Hospital Complex, Kampala Uganda.
BMC Res Notes. 2011 Jul 21;4:250. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-250.
Globally, the role of universities as providers of research education in addition to leading in main - stream research is gaining more importance with demand for evidence based practices. This paper describes the effect of various students and faculty authoring partnerships on the use of the IMRAD style of writing for a university student journal.
This was an audit of the Makerere University Students' Journal publications over an 18-year period. Details of the authors' affiliation, year of publication, composition of the authoring teams and use of IMRAD formatting were noted. Data analysis gave results summarised as frequencies and, effect sizes from correlations and the non parametric test. There were 209 articles found with the earliest from 1990 to latest in 2007 of which 48.3% were authored by faculty only teams, 41.1% were authored by student only teams, 6.2% were authored by students and faculty teams, and 4.3% had no contribution from the above mentioned teams. There were significant correlations between the different teams and the years of the publication (rs = -0.338 p < 0.01 one tailed). Use of the IMRAD formatting was significantly affected by the composition of the teams (Χ2 (2df) = 25.621, p < 0.01) especially when comparing the student only teams to the faculty only teams. (U = 3165 r = - 0.289). There was a significant trend towards student only teams over the years sampled. (z = -4.764, r = -0.34).
In the surveyed publications, there was evidence of reduced faculty student authoring teams as evidenced by the trends towards students only authoring teams and reduced use of IMRAD formatting in articles published in the students' journal. Since the university is expected to lead in teaching of research, there is need for increased support for undergraduate research, as a starting point for research education.
在全球范围内，随着基于证据的实践需求增加，大学除了在主流研究中发挥引领作用外，作为研究教育提供者的角色正变得愈发重要。本文描述了各种学生与教师合作撰写文章对一本大学生期刊使用IMRAD写作风格的影响。
这是一项对马凯雷雷大学学生期刊18年期间出版物的审核。记录了作者所属机构、出版年份、作者团队组成以及IMRAD格式的使用情况。数据分析结果以频率、相关性效应量和非参数检验呈现。共发现209篇文章，最早的发表于1990年，最晚的在2007年，其中48.3%仅由教师团队撰写，41.1%仅由学生团队撰写，6.2%由学生和教师团队共同撰写，4.3%没有上述团队的贡献。不同团队与出版年份之间存在显著相关性（rs = -0.338，p < 0.01，单尾）。团队组成对IMRAD格式的使用有显著影响（Χ2(2df) = 25.621，p < 0.01），特别是将仅学生团队与仅教师团队进行比较时。（U = 3165，r = - 0.289）。在抽样年份中，仅学生团队有显著增加的趋势。（z = -4.764，r = -0.34）。
在所调查的出版物中，有证据表明教师 - 学生合作撰写团队减少，这体现在仅学生撰写团队的趋势以及学生期刊发表文章中IMRAD格式使用减少。鉴于大学应在研究教学中发挥引领作用，需要增加对本科研究的支持，作为研究教育的起点。
