Preregistration

Tie my hands loosely: Pre-analysis plans in political science

In this short article, I want to provide some of my thoughts on these developments from the perspective of someone who writes PAPs and reads them as a reviewer, as well as from the perspective of a journal editor.

Tópicos Especiais em Biotecnologia: Planejamento e Otimização de Experimentos

A crise de confiança na ciência. Práticas e condutas questionáveis na pesquisa. Delineamento experimental adequado. Definição de variáveis. Armadilhas à validade. Cálculo amostral. Transparência na pesquisa. Pré-registro. Dados e código aberto.

Topics in Social Psychology and Personality

This seminar class will focus on the theme of Reproducibility in Social Psychology. We will discuss issues surrounding open science as well as the “replication crisis” in social psychology.

Transparent and Open Social Science Research course

Demand is growing for evidence-based policy making, but there is also growing recognition in the social science community that limited transparency and openness in research have contributed to widespread problems. With this course, you can explore …

Trial Publication after Registration in ClinicalTrials.Gov: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

Background ClinicalTrials.gov is a publicly accessible, Internet-based registry of clinical trials managed by the US National Library of Medicine that has the potential to address selective trial publication. Our objectives were to examine …

Trial registration 10 years on

This month marks the tenth anniversary of the landmark decision by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors to make journals require “registration of any clinical trials in a public trials registry at or before the time of first patient …

Ulysses' pact or Ulysses' raft: Using pre-analysis plans in experimental and nonexperimental research

Economists have recently adopted pre-analysis plans in response to concerns about robustness and transparency in research. The increased use of registered pre-analysis plans has raised competing concerns that detailed plans are costly to create, …

Update on Trial Registration 11 Years after the ICMJE Policy Was Established

Laws and policies to establish a global trial reporting system have greatly increased the transparency and accountability of the clinical research enterprise. The three components of the trial reporting system are trial registration, reporting of …

Using Pre-Analysis Plans in Qualitative Research

In the last decade, there has been a significant push for greater transparency in the social sciences. For example, epistemological and methodological debates have addressed the scope, meaning, and appropriateness of research transparency, and …

What does Open Science mean for Educational Technology Research? Challenges, Opportunities, and a Call for Research

Educational technology (EdTech) research should champion the values of open science in order to be robust, methodologically rigorous, collaborative, inclusive, and transparent. ‘Open science’ is, broadly, an approach to scientific scholarship that …