A Path to Greater Credibility: Large-Scale Collaborative Education Research
Concerns about the replication crisis and unreliable findings have spread through several fields, including education and psychological research. In some areas of education, researchers have begun to adopt reforms that have proven useful in other fields. These include preregistration, open materials...
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| author | Matthew C. Makel Kendal N. Smith Matthew T. McBee Scott J. Peters Erin M. Miller |
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| description | Concerns about the replication crisis and unreliable findings have spread through several fields, including education and psychological research. In some areas of education, researchers have begun to adopt reforms that have proven useful in other fields. These include preregistration, open materials and data, and registered reports. These reforms offer education research a path toward increased credibility and social impact. In this article, we discuss models of large-scale collaborative research practices and how they can be applied to education research. We discuss five types of large-scale collaboration: participating teams run different studies, multiteam collaboration projects, collaborative analysis, preregistered adversarial collaboration, and persistent collaboration. The combination of large-scale collaboration with open and transparent research practices offers education researchers opportunity to test theories, verify what is known about a topic, resolve disagreements, and explore new questions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-598aa33567a34a4fb0c93dc3b0525e072022-12-21T17:50:05ZengSAGE PublishingAERA Open2332-85842019-12-01510.1177/2332858419891963A Path to Greater Credibility: Large-Scale Collaborative Education ResearchMatthew C. MakelKendal N. SmithMatthew T. McBeeScott J. PetersErin M. MillerConcerns about the replication crisis and unreliable findings have spread through several fields, including education and psychological research. In some areas of education, researchers have begun to adopt reforms that have proven useful in other fields. These include preregistration, open materials and data, and registered reports. These reforms offer education research a path toward increased credibility and social impact. In this article, we discuss models of large-scale collaborative research practices and how they can be applied to education research. We discuss five types of large-scale collaboration: participating teams run different studies, multiteam collaboration projects, collaborative analysis, preregistered adversarial collaboration, and persistent collaboration. The combination of large-scale collaboration with open and transparent research practices offers education researchers opportunity to test theories, verify what is known about a topic, resolve disagreements, and explore new questions.https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858419891963 |
| spellingShingle | Matthew C. Makel Kendal N. Smith Matthew T. McBee Scott J. Peters Erin M. Miller A Path to Greater Credibility: Large-Scale Collaborative Education Research AERA Open |
| title | A Path to Greater Credibility: Large-Scale Collaborative Education Research |
| title_full | A Path to Greater Credibility: Large-Scale Collaborative Education Research |
| title_fullStr | A Path to Greater Credibility: Large-Scale Collaborative Education Research |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Path to Greater Credibility: Large-Scale Collaborative Education Research |
| title_short | A Path to Greater Credibility: Large-Scale Collaborative Education Research |
| title_sort | path to greater credibility large scale collaborative education research |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858419891963 |
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