A Call for Open Science in Giftedness Research

Current practices in study design and data analysis have led to low reproducibility and replicability of findings in fields such as psychology, medicine, biology, and economics. Because gifted education research relies on the same underlying statistical and sociological paradigms, it is likely that...

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Published in:The Gifted child quarterly 2018-10, Vol.62 (4), p.374-388
Main Authors: McBee, Matthew T., Makel, Matthew C., Peters, Scott J., Matthews, Michael S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academically Gifted
Educational Research
Gifted education
Hypothesis Testing
Information Storage
Meta Analysis
Periodicals
Reproducibility
Research Methodology
Research Reports
Shared Resources and Services
Social Psychology
Social Science Research
Statistical Analysis
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Summary:Current practices in study design and data analysis have led to low reproducibility and replicability of findings in fields such as psychology, medicine, biology, and economics. Because gifted education research relies on the same underlying statistical and sociological paradigms, it is likely that it too suffers from these problems. This article discusses the origin of the poor replicability and introduces a set of open science practices that can increase the rigor and trustworthiness of gifted education’s scientific findings: preregistration, open data and open materials, registered reports, and preprints. Readers are directed to Internet resources for facilitating open science. To model these practices, a pre peer-review preprint of this article is available at https://psyarxiv.com/nhuv3/.
ISSN:0016-9862
1934-9041
1934-9041
DOI:10.1177/0016986218784178