Teaching integrity in empirical research: A protocol for documenting data management and analysis

This article describes a protocol the authors developed for teaching undergraduates to document their statistical analyses for empirical research projects so that their results are completely reproducible and verifiable. The protocol is guided by the principle that the documentation prepared to acco...

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Published in:The Journal of economic education 2012-04, Vol.43 (2), p.182-189
Main Authors: Ball, Richard, Medeiros, Norm
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to Information
Analyse
Archives
College students
Computer software
Data base management
Data files
Data management
Daten
Documentation
Economic analysis
ECONOMIC INSTRUCTION
Economic research
Economics Education
empirical research
Empirische Forschung
Integrity
Integrität
Lehren
Management
Methods
Pennsylvania
Protocol
Raw data
replication
Replication (Evaluation)
Statistical Analysis
Statistics
Studies
Teachers
Teaching
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:This article describes a protocol the authors developed for teaching undergraduates to document their statistical analyses for empirical research projects so that their results are completely reproducible and verifiable. The protocol is guided by the principle that the documentation prepared to accompany an empirical research project should be sufficient to allow an independent researcher to replicate easily and exactly every step of the data management and analysis that generated the results reported in a study. The authors hope that requiring students to follow this protocol will not only teach them how to document their research appropriately, but also instill in them the belief that such documentation is an important professional responsibility.
ISSN:0022-0485
2152-4068
DOI:10.1080/00220485.2012.659647