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Unit 2: Developing a practice-based question

SPICE

If you are studying the social sciences, a more appropriate system may be SPICE:

  • SETTING (Where? in what context?)
  • POPULATION or PERSPECTIVE (For whom?)
  • INTERVENTION (What?)
  • COMPARISON (What else?)
  • EVALUATION (how well? What result?)

Here is an example of how it works:

Setting Scotland
Population or Perspective Teenagers
Intervention Provision of Quit Kits to support smoking cessation
Comparison No support or "cold turkey"
Evaluation Number of successful attempts to give up smoking with Quit Kits compared to number of successful attempts with no support.

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SMILE - Developing a practice based question by Jamie Frankis, Lesley Price, Ima Jackson SHLS and modified by Marion Kelt, Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License