The importance of pilot studies.
By Edwin Roland van Teijlingen, V. Hundley. Nursing Standard, 2002
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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science
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- A prospective investigation of students’ academic achievement and dropout in higher education: a Self-Determination Theory approach (2018, neutral): “Furthermore, pilot-testing and ‘thinking-out-loud’ procedures (Persaud, 2012; van Teijingen & Hundley, 2001) showed satisfactory psychometrics of the scales (i.e. reliability tests and factor analyses), prior to data collection.”
- Social Sustainability in Developing Country Suppliers: An Exploratory Study in the Ready Made Garments Industry of Bangladesh (2014, background): “The interviews were conducted in two rounds, which improved the focus of the research, allowed for follow-up questions, and helped identify possible future research areas (Van Teijlingen and Hundley, 2001, Bryman and Bell, 2007).”
- Interviewing the Investigator: Strategies for Addressing Instrumentation and Researcher Bias Concerns in Qualitative Research. (2011, methodology): “(van Teijlingen & Hundley, 2001, ¶6) Sometimes piloting is not practical because researchers do not want to lose limited research participants and their valuable information to a pilot study database not used in the study proper or the researcher does not want to take up participants’ valuable time…”
- Pilot Testing for Feasibility in a Study of Student Retention and Attrition in Online Undergraduate Programs. (2018, background): “Nevertheless, as described above, properly conducted pilot studies can greatly strengthen outcomes of the main study regardless of the field (van Teijlingen & Hundley, 2002; Cohen, Manion, & Morrison, 2007; Gudmundsdottir & Brock-Utne, 2010; Leon et al., 2011; Doody & Doody, 2015).”