MLA September Webinars: Quantitative and Qualitative Research Appraisal
Join MLA in September for a pair of webinars that will help you evaluate a broad range of research studies! On September 5, Lisa Federer, AHIP, presents the Critical Appraisal of Quantitative Research http://www.medlib-ed.org/products/1796/critical-appraisal-of-quantitative-research.
She will take you through the process of evaluating quantitative studies, which are common in the biomedical literature. Register here for the Quantitative Appraisal Webinar http://www.medlib-ed.org/products/1796/critical-appraisal-of-quantitative-research. On September 13, Susan A. LaValley presents Putting the Quality in Qualitative
Studies: Tips for Evaluating Qualitative Research http://www.medlib-ed.org/products/1794/putting-the-quality-in-qualitative-tips-for-evaluating-qualitative-research to help you find the quality in qualitative studies, which are more often found in the allied health and social sciences literature. Register here for the Qualitative Appraisal Webinar http://www.medlib-ed.org/products/1794/putting-the-quality-in-qualitative-tips-for-evaluating-qualitative-research. Taking both webinars will help you to better serve a diverse user population.
Federer is a data science and open science librarian at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and the editor of the forthcoming Medical Library Association Guide to Data Management for Librarians. She holds a master’s of library and information science and is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland.
LaValley is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Family Medicine, University at Buffalo Primary Care Research Institute. She has authored or coauthored a number of qualitative studies on caregiver social support and caregiver health information–seeking behaviors.
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