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	Pilot-testad experimentlogg	Forskningsdagbok
Ämnesområde	Surveymetodik	Surveymetodik
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	19th–20th century (lab notebooks); pilot-testing conventions codified mid-20th century	1981 (methodological codification); diary use in research dates to 19th-century anthropology
Upphovsperson	Scientific research community (laboratory practice); pilot-testing formalized by survey and experimental methodologists	Robert G. Burgess (systematic methodological treatment)
Typ	Instrument-validation + structured data collection	Qualitative data collection and reflexivity tool
Ursprungskälla	Barab, S., & Squire, K. (2004). Design-based research: Putting a stake in the ground. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(1), 1–14.	Burgess, R. G. (1981). Keeping a research diary. Cambridge Journal of Education, 11(1), 75–83.
Alias	pilot-tested lab journal, pilot-tested research logbook, validated experiment diary, pre-tested lab log	researcher diary, field diary, research journal, reflexive diary
Närliggande	5	6
Sammanfattning	A pilot-tested experiment log is a structured research instrument — a systematic journal of experimental procedures, observations, and results — that has been trialed with a small representative sample before full deployment. The pilot phase identifies ambiguous recording fields, impractical time demands, or inconsistent terminology, enabling targeted revisions that improve the log's reliability and completeness before the main data-collection phase begins.	A research diary is a systematic, dated log maintained by the researcher throughout a study to record methodological decisions, emergent observations, analytical hunches, and reflections on researcher positionality. Unlike a participant diary, it is authored by the researcher and functions simultaneously as a data source, an audit trail, and a reflexivity instrument.