Reproducibility and Replicability Knowledge

 

Fishing, Commitment, and Communication: A Proposal for Comprehensive Nonbinding Research Registration

Social scientists generally enjoy substantial latitude in selecting measures and models for hypothesis testing. Coupled with publication and related biases, this latitude raises the concern that researchers may intentionally or unintentionally select …

Forcing a Deterministic Frame on Probabilistic Phenomena: A Communication Blind Spot in Media Coverage of the “Replication Crisis''

The current controversy surrounding research replication in biomedical and psychosocial sciences often overlooks the uncertainties surrounding both the original and replication studies. Overemphasizing single attempts as definitive replication …

FORRT’s Open and Reproducible Science Syllabus

To provide educators with an example of how they can draw resources from FORRT’s educational nexus to integrate open scholarship into their teaching, FORRT has developed an Open and Reproducible Science 101 syllabus.

Framework for Value Based Academic Assessment

We present a framework designed to help academic institutions and departments rethink and reform academic assessments - including tenure and promotion evaluations - using a values-based approach. For each of the 14 values included, we outline some …

Getting ontologically serious about the replication crisis in psychology.

Discussions of the so-called replication crisis (RC) in psychology have focused on methodological–epistemological considerations. In this article, I follow a speculative approach within analytic philosophy to focus on ontological considerations, as …

Good clinical practice improves rigor and transparency: Lessons from the ACTIVE trial

Clinical trials are governed by principles of good clinical practice (GCP), which can strengthen the achievement of rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in scientific research. Rigor, reproducibility, and transparency are key for producing …

Good Science, Bad Science

A syllabi about open science: good science and bad science.

Graduate Research Methods

Completion of this course will provide a foundation for the practice of science. We will wrestle with the fundamental issues for designing and executing a program of research, and in the interpretation and reporting of research results. The class is …

Growth from uncertainty: understanding the replication 'crisis' in infant psychology

Psychology is a discipline that has a high number of failed replications, which has been characterised as a ‘crisis’ on the assumption that failed replications are indicative of untrustworthy research. This paper uses Chang’s concept of epistemic …

Guide Your Students to Become Better Research Consumers

Blog post going over making undergraduate students better consumers of research