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Research study · 2024

Undergraduate pharmacy students’ preference for case-based learning: a discrete choice experiment in China

Explore the published experiment and its available replication evidence.

Zhibo Guo · Guo2025

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01 / Human finding

What the study found

A reviewed summary is not available in this registry. Consult the published paper for the original finding.

Answer-key review: Not reviewed

02 / Experiment design

Who chose, and what varied

Country
China
Human respondents
Not recorded
Attributes
6
Task
discrete choice

03 / Synthetic replication

Registry replication results

Current replication

Spearman rank correlation

Not measured

No current measurement is available in this registry.

Paper-era reference

2023 CLM mean Spearman ρ

Not measured

Historical results use their original estimator and reference. They are not a matched comparison with the current run.

Detailed replication evidence · 2026-11-02

Right direction on all 6 significant effects, close ranking (ρ = 0.84); sizes not comparable (the paper reports logit coefficients).

Use it to screen and rank which attributes move choice; sizes need the paper's respondent data.

Inspect the measured run ↗

direction
holds
rank
holds
size
not comparable

Supported uses

  • Screening which attributes move choice, and in which direction.
  • Ranking attributes and levels by how strongly they move choice.

Limits to keep in view

  • Effect sizes in the paper's units; only direction, rank and shape are compared.

Effects on a common scale

Human effects: logit coefficient. Synthetic effects are multiplied by the record’s calibration factor, k = 6.3447. Calibration aligns magnitude; it does not establish agreement in unadjusted effect sizes.

● Human   ◆ Calibrated synthetic · Lines show human 95% intervals where available.
-0.6300.63Case modality: Scenario simulationCase modality: Scenario simulationCase modality: VideoCase modality: VideoProvider type: Academic expertsProvider type: Academic expertsProvider type: MixedProvider type: MixedGroup size: MediumGroup size: MediumGroup size: SmallGroup size: SmallCase authenticity: VirtualCase authenticity: VirtualCase complexity: MediumCase complexity: MediumCase complexity: HighCase complexity: HighExamination: Oral presentationExamination: Oral presentation
Human and calibrated synthetic effects
Attribute / levelHumanHuman 95% half-widthCalibrated synthetic
Case modality: Paper (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Case modality: Scenario simulation0.570Not measured0.120
Case modality: Video0.180Not measured0.360
Provider type: Clinical instructors (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Provider type: Academic experts-0.370Not measured-0.008
Provider type: Mixed-0.140Not measured-0.146
Group size: Large (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Group size: Medium0.100Not measured0.498
Group size: Small0.230Not measured0.481
Case authenticity: Real (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Case authenticity: Virtual-0.430Not measured-0.287
Case complexity: Low (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Case complexity: Medium-0.100Not measured0.097
Case complexity: High-0.170Not measured-0.116
Examination: Traditional written exam (reference)0.000Not measured0.000
Examination: Oral presentation-0.050Not measured-0.227

Subgroups · screen, not a result

Split by sex: 1 of 1 significant differences keep their direction in the simulation (21% to 100%)

screen, not a result. Each row is the male group’s effect minus the female group’s, human in logit, simulated on the simulation’s own scale, so compare direction, not size. A Jev fast-small screen makes no comparison claim.

Sign agreement
1/1, 100%
95% interval
21% to 100%
Shuffle null
53%, p 0.51
Shape ρ
–
Scale ratio
–
Respondents per group
GroupSimulated nPeople nρ vs paper
female112not given–
male98not given–
Group differences: male minus female
Attribute / levelPeople Δ (95%)SignificantSimulated Δ (own scale)Direction
Case complexity: High+0.25 ±0.23yes+0.00 ±0.09same direction

Interval: Wilson 95% on the significant differences. Shuffle null: groups reassigned at random among the simulated respondents. Scored from screen run d9532fca-e2e4-416b-8e45-dcdca4c2d95b, W&B score ↗.

04 / Evidence and limitations

Follow the evidence

Missing results mean unmeasured, not zero agreement.

  • missing parent paper url
  • missing canonical pdf
  • missing historic score
  • missing resolved wandb run
Measurement provenance

Registry revision: 648f40378e9c. Estimator: ols.