Improving reporting standards in quantitative educational intervention research: introducing the CLOSER and CIDER checklists.

ABSTRACT: In educational research, the complexity of interventions and the diversity of contexts challenge the adequacy of existing reporting standards, primarily tailored for health interventions and randomised controlled trials. Recognising the critical need for appropriate tools to support education research, we developed two checklists: the CheckList Of Standards of reporting in Education Research (CLOSER) and the Checklist for Intervention Description of Education Research (CIDER). CLOSER was designed to guide the comprehensive reporting of quantitative educational intervention research from the abstract to the discussion for multiple study designs. Concurrently, CIDER details the precise features of educational interventions. The final refinements of CLOSER and CIDER comprise of 34 and 17 item

SUBMITTER: Upsher R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11801185 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature