组讨论提高了基于系统审查的定性数据的评级类别的可靠性和有效性
Jutta Beher1,2, Eric Treml1,3, Brendan Wintle4
1School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
PloS one
|June 18, 2025
概括
这项研究引入了一种评估科学文献评论可靠性的新方法. 通过让多位专家对发现进行评价和讨论,这种方法可以提高准确性,并识别保护研究中的错误.
科学领域:
- 生态与保护科学 生态与保护科学
- 系统性文献审查方法论 方法论
背景情况:
- 生态学和保护方面的文献评论正在增加.
- 系统审查需要对定性数据进行主观解释.
- 专家判断中的主观性可能导致数据分类中的不一致性和错误.
研究的目的:
- 描述系统文献评论中可靠性测试的务实方法.
- 为了了解内容分类中多个评级者的错误率.
- 为了提高保护科学文献评论的准确性和可靠性.
主要方法:
- 五位独立评级人员对21个保护管理计划出版物中的23个变量进行了评价.
- 评级人员参加了小组讨论,以解决分类中的分歧.
- 使用一种新的方法来评估评级者之间的可靠性并识别错误来源.
主要成果:
- 忽视信息的错误是评级者之间分歧的主要来源.
- 解释和类别模糊性的差异也导致了评级差异.
- 组讨论有效地解决了大多数评级差异,提高了可靠性.
结论:
- 描述的务实方法比目前缺乏错误分类评估的审查方法提供了显著的改进.
- 这种方法提高了保护科学中的系统审查的可靠性和准确性.
- 它为识别和纠正定性数据分类中的错误提供了一个实际的框架.
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