*Department of Emergency Medicine,University of Saskatchewan,Saskatoon,SK.
†Department of Emergency Medicine,University of British Columbia,Vancouver,BC.
CJEM. 2018 Jan;20(1):125-131. doi: 10.1017/cem.2017.17. Epub 2017 Apr 26.
Quantitative research is one of the many research methods used to help educators advance their understanding of questions in medical education. However, little research has been done on how to succeed in publishing in this area.
We conducted a scoping review to identify key recommendations and reporting guidelines for quantitative educational research and scholarship.
Medline, ERIC, and Google Scholar were searched for English-language articles published between 2006 and January 2016 using the search terms, "research design," "quantitative," "quantitative methods," and "medical education." A hand search was completed for additional references during the full-text review. Titles/abstracts were reviewed by two authors (BT, PC) and included if they focused on quantitative research in medical education and outlined reporting guidelines, or provided recommendations on conducting quantitative research. One hundred articles were reviewed in parallel with the first 30 used for calibration and the subsequent 70 to calculate Cohen's kappa coefficient. Two reviewers (BT, PC) conducted a full text review and extracted recommendations and reporting guidelines. A simple thematic analysis summarized the extracted recommendations.
Sixty-one articles were reviewed in full, and 157 recommendations were extracted. The thematic analysis identified 86 items, 14 categories, and 3 themes. Fourteen quality evaluation tools and reporting guidelines were found. Discussion This paper provides guidance for junior researchers in the form of key quality markers and reporting guidelines. We hope that quantitative researchers in medical education will be informed by the results and that further work will be done to refine the list of recommendations.
定量研究是帮助教育工作者深入了解医学教育问题的众多研究方法之一。然而，关于如何成功在该领域发表研究成果的研究甚少。
我们进行了范围界定综述，以确定定量教育研究和学术的关键建议和报告指南。
使用“研究设计”、“定量”、“定量方法”和“医学教育”等检索词，在 Medline、ERIC 和 Google Scholar 中搜索 2006 年至 2016 年 1 月期间发表的英文文章。在全文审查期间，对手头搜索进行了额外的参考文献搜索。两名作者（BT、PC）审查了标题/摘要，如果它们专注于医学教育中的定量研究并概述了报告指南，或提供了关于进行定量研究的建议，则将其纳入。前 30 篇文章用于校准，随后的 70 篇文章用于计算 Cohen 的 kappa 系数。两名审查者（BT、PC）进行了全文审查，并提取了建议和报告指南。简单的主题分析总结了提取的建议。
全文审查了 61 篇文章，共提取了 157 条建议。主题分析确定了 86 个项目、14 个类别和 3 个主题。发现了 14 种质量评估工具和报告指南。
本文以关键质量标记和报告指南的形式为初级研究人员提供了指导。我们希望医学教育中的定量研究人员能够从研究结果中得到启示，并进一步开展工作，以完善建议清单。
