In this Unconference we will discuss:
1. What is considered open and questionable research practices in education.
Are there factors that make education unique from other research fields where practices can be (un)acceptable or (un)helpful in education but not elsewhere?
2. What to do about them.
Seek to gain greater consensus over (un)acceptable and (un)helpful practices? Seek to change norms about the transparency of what practices are used? What are the key barriers and how can these barriers be reduced/removed?
**Session Goal**
Our hope is that the unconference conversation evolves into a hackathon with a team who wants to help make progress in education research related to open and questionable research practices.
**Some relevant research:**
Chin, J., Pickett, J., Vazire, S., & Holcombe, A. O. (2021, January 18). Questionable Research Practices and Open Science in Quantitative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/bwm7s
Fraser, H., Parker, T., Nakagawa, S., Barnett, A., & Fidler, F. (2018). Questionable research practices in ecology and evolution. PLoS ONE,13(7),e0200303.doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200303
John, L. K., Loewenstein, G., & Prelec, D. (2012). Measuring the prevalence of questionable research practices with incentives for truth telling. Psychological Science, 23, 524–532. doi:10.1177/0956797611430953
Makel, M. C., Hodges, J., Cook, B. G., & Plucker, J. (2019, October 31). Questionable and Open Research Practices in Education Research. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/f7srb