预注册 [Preregistration]
定义: 预注册是指在数据收集或分析之前,预先公布研究方案的行为,公布内容包括研究问题/假设、研究设计和数据分析计划等。该方法同样适用于二次数据分析(Merten & Krypotos, 2019)。预注册文件将加盖时间戳,通常由独立机构(如存储库)存证,以便后续公开共享(或经过一段封锁期后公开)。预注册能透明记录特定时间节点的研究计划,便于第三方评估后续可能出现的变更。预注册内容越详细,第三方就越能准确评估这些变更及其对分析效度的影响。其核心目的在于明确区分验证性研究与探索性研究。
相关术语: Confirmation bias, Confirmatory analyses, Exploratory Data Analysis, HARKing, Pre-analysis plan, Questionable Research Practices or Questionable Reporting Practices (QRPs), Registered Report, Research Protocol, Transparency
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原稿作者: Mahmoud Elsherif
审阅者: Gisela H. Govaart, Helena Hartmann, Tina Lonsdorf, William Ngiam, Eike Mark Rinke, Lisa Spitzer, Olmo van den Akker, Flávio Azevedo
翻译者: AI-driven translation tool "TransFlow" (developed by Jinbiao Yang and COSN OpenTransfer team)
译稿审阅者: Zixi Wang, Liangjie Chen, Ruoting Liu, Shuxian Jin