What's the idea?
An essential part of being an evidence-based practitioner is being able to judge the quality and trustworthiness of research. However, not being an expert in research, and without some kind of aide-memoire or heuristic, this can be difficult. Thankfully, there are frameworks in place to help you do this. For example, Professor Steve Higgins of Durham University has developed a framework based on the ‘6As of the usefulness of research’ which can help you to do this. Professor Higgins poses the following question: is the research: accessible, accurate, applicable, acceptable, appropriate and actionable?
What does it mean?
In order to help you make the most of them, Jones (2018) has identified a number of sub-questions for each of the 6 As: Accessible Is the research physically accessible on: Google scholar, The Chartered College of Teaching, the EBSCO database, Open source journals or via direct contact with the author?
Who is the audience: practitioner
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