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The development of a weighted objective research criterion assessment tool (WORCAT)

I. Treadwell
Curationis | Vol 17, No 2 | a1380 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/curationis.v17i2.1380 | © 1994 I. Treadwell | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 28 March 1994 | Published: 31 March 1994

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I. Treadwell,, South Africa

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The aim of this study was to develop an instrument to evaluate research reports objectively according to set criteria, relative weights and critical errors. A tentative instrument was compiled and copies were sent to 144 university lecturers and senior lecturers at South African Nursing Science Departments in order to determine:
  • the face validity of the assessment criteria of the 18 stated aspects of research reports
  • the weight or relative value of each of the aspects
  • how relationships between aspects should be evaluated
The relative value of each of the 18 aspects was determined by completing a matrix on which aspects were compared The Analytic Hierarchical Procedure was used to determine the weight of each aspect.

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