What do incoming university students believe about open science practices in psychology?

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dc.contributor.authorBeaudry JL
dc.contributor.authorWilliams M
dc.contributor.authorPhilipp MC
dc.contributor.authorKothe EJ
dc.date.available2022-07-11
dc.date.issued2022-07-11
dc.description.abstractBackground: Understanding students’ naive conceptions about the norms that guide scientific best practice is important so that teachers can adapt to students’ existing understandings. Objective: We examined what incoming undergraduate students of psychology believe about reproducibility and open science practices. Method: We conducted an online survey with participants who were about to start their first course in psychology at a university (N = 239). Results: When asked to indicate how a researcher should conduct her study, most students endorsed several open science practices. When asked to estimate the proportion of published psychological studies that follow various open science practices, participants’ estimates averaged near 50%. Only 18% of participants reported that they had heard the term “replication crisis.” Conclusion: Despite media attention about the replication crisis, few incoming psychology students in our sample were familiar with the term. The students were nevertheless in favour of most open science practices, although they overestimated the prevalence of some of these practices in psychology. Teaching Implications: Teachers of incoming psychology students should not assume pre-existing knowledge about open science or replicability.
dc.description.confidentialfalse
dc.identifier.citationTeaching of Psychology, 2022
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/00986283221100276
dc.identifier.elements-id454773
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0098-6283
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.isPartOfTeaching of Psychology
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rq3zs
dc.rightsCC-By Attribution 4.0 International
dc.subjectOpen science
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subjectTeaching
dc.subjectReproducibility
dc.subjectReplication
dc.subject.anzsrc1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
dc.subject.anzsrc1701 Psychology
dc.titleWhat do incoming university students believe about open science practices in psychology?
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Psychology
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