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a)
To formulate and justify a research hypothesis (there are
many examples of using the results of meta-analysis to
establish not only the effectiveness of a therapeutic effect,
but also cause-effect relationships between disease and risk
factors, as well as to determine the generalized indicators
of morbidity and mortality, the effectiveness of diagnosis);
b)
To justify the scale of the planned clinical study (meta-
analysis allows obtaining reliable data to assess the
expected effect of a particular treatment method for its
subsequent verification in the planned research Institute);
c)
To determine the important side effects of the studied
therapeutic drug, as well as to establish predictive valuable
factors of the development of a particular disease outcome;
d)
To avoid mistakes made in previous studies (for example,
in the organization of the planned study).
Third, the results of the meta-analysis help health professionals
and experts in the development of recommendations and
legislation about the use of certain diagnostic and treatment
methods. In this regard, regularly updated recommendations are
a good example of the American Association of board biologists
for the management of patients with cerebra-vascular and board
bio-vascular diseases (23).
The plan of implementation of the review consists of three
important phases (Figure 1). At the planning stage, we define the
main objectives of the research, sources of research, and develop
a protocol of systematic review. The works selection, data
extraction, process monitoring and data synthesis will be
performed in the second stage. The last stage will be the
arrangement of our work as a report, thesis or article in scientific
journals.
2.2 Planning process
The protocol consists of several components (31):
1)
Research questions;
2)
Search strategy;
3)
Criteria for exclusion of scientific papers;
Figure 1. A systematic review of literature (24)
4)
Data extraction strategy;
5)
Synthesis strategy.
In this study, we should get answers to the following questions:
a)
In which subject areas is the Arduino platform used?
b)
What teaching methods are used alongside this platform?
Search for scientific articles will be carried out in international
bibliographic databases (Table 1), by the following keywords:
“Arduino OR Arduino in education OR microcontrollers OR
microcontrollers in education OR education robotics OR
raspberry Pi OR beagle bone black OR raspberry Pi in
education”.
Table 1. Databases
No.
Bibliographic database
Database URL
1
Web of Science
https://apps.webofknowledge.com
2
Scopus
http://www.scopus.com
3
Springer Link
http://springer.com
4
IEEE Xplore
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore
5
ACM Digital Library
http://dl.acm.org
2.3 Data extraction strategy
The 9 data units were identified and will be used for the analysis
of selected scientific works:
1.
Article’s title;
2.
Number of publications;
3.
Year of publications;
4.
Number of participants;
5.
Platform;
6.
The subjects that are taught with the use of the platform;
7.
Skills acquired through the use of platforms;
8.
Applied teaching methods in research;
9.
Justification for the application of this technique.
Synthesis strategy: the synthesis is based on the analysis of data
from selected publications to obtain answers to our main
questions.
3. Results and Discussion
In the course of the research we have considered more than 50
scientific works in this area from different sources (Figure 2).
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