"It was unanimously agreed at the ministerial and governance forum on food regulation (the Forum) in December, that a cost benefit analysis needed to be undertaken to ensure sufficient rigour in the process and that industry impacts were fully considered".
I'm convinced that the need to analyse and assess materials and develop lines of argument helped me to develop a maturity in my thinking processes, and also a certain rigour in the way I go about things.
"[T]here was a lack of sufficient rigour in editorial processes at all three of the journals in question, and that for Hikari and Dove the issues may extend wider than the single affected journal," the group writes in its statement.
We had to balance striving to prove rigour in our processes with making the system manageable and deliverable within the project resources.
It is particularly useful when working in a large research team to facilitate transparency and rigour in the analytic process, and interpretation of research findings.
This process corresponds with approaches to establish rigour in qualitative research, in particular establishing credibility which represents means of conferring value and believability to qualitative findings.
We propose possible solutions to these problems, based on sound methodological principles that we have used in our subsequent research to help maintain rigour in the research process.
Automated recording of process efficiency measures such as total response time to the incident and the tracking of changes to the report can help the organisation-wide evaluation of the rigour in the MIR process.
Research examining quality of guideline development points to the importance of rigour in the development process, the identification of a target audience, the involvement of health professionals and targeted populations, and the attention to procedures for priority setting and the decision making process [ 9, 13- 17].
Interest in lesson study as a tool for inquiry in teachers' professional learning is understandable taking into consideration the push for more rigour in the action research process in terms of adopting a more positivistic-quantitative and academic slant.
