Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2019
Abstract
Reproducibility crises have arisen in psychology and other behavioral sciences, spurring efforts to ensure research findings are credible and replicable. Although reforms are occurring at professional levels in terms of new publication parameters and open science initiatives, the credibility and reproducibility of undergraduate research deserves attention. Undergraduate behavioral science research projects that rely on small convenience samples of participants, overuse hypothesis testing for drawing meaning from data, and engage in opaque statistical computing are vulnerable to producing nonreproducible findings. These vulnerabilities are reviewed, and practical recommendations for improving the credibility and reproducibility of undergraduate behavioral science research are offered.
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.18833/spur/3/1/2
Publication Information
Blaine, Bruce Evan (2019). "Toward Greater Reproducibility of Undergraduate Behavioral Science Research." Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research 3.1, 3-10.
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Comments
Inaugural SPUR Best Article Award Recipient