Start with the whole. Then go deeper.
Research methods are full of connected decisions. This guide gives those decisions a visible structure: what you want to learn, how you measure it, how you introduce an intervention, and what would count as convincing evidence.
Choose your own depth.
The atlas includes 18 study components, 119 linked terms, five published-study walkthroughs, and worked illustrations. Open a component for its constituent parts, protocol decisions, examples, and reading trail. Follow a technical term into its definition and related concepts.
A tool for thinking with.
The resource draws on Ledford & Gast’s 2018 textbook, course materials, and cited original studies. Source-derived questions and new teaching illustrations are labeled in the guide. Its purpose is to support careful reading and discussion, including the limits of a study’s evidence.
