Open Research across Disciplines

How the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline

Education

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Case Studies

University of Manchester case study: Qualitative Pre-Registration and Protocols

University of Suffolk: Advancing Open Practices in HE – Science and Education

Examples of open research practices

Open Methods and Open Outputs: The Education Endowment Foundation funds Randomised Controlled Trials of educational interventions following a set of principles to ensure rigorous, high quality evaluations. Interventions are conducted by independent evaluators rather than the team that developed the intervention. All trials are registered and the evaluation protocol (including power analysis) is published in advance. All trial findings are published on the EEF website, regardless of the outcome of the trial.

Resources

General Resources

Education Researchers for Open Science (EROS) is an open science working group in the Department of Education at the University of York who have compiled a selected list of freely available tools and resources that can help researchers understand and adopt open practices. https://www.york.ac.uk/education/research/eros/
Van der Zee, T., and Reich, J. (2018). Open education science. AERA Open, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858418787466

Open Methods

ManyClasses is a collaborative research project investigating the generalizability of educational interventions in real classrooms. https://www.manyclasses.org
Renbarger, R., Adelson, J. L., Rosenberg, J., Stegenga, S. M., Lowrey, O., Buckley, P. R., & Zhang, Q. (2023). Champions of Transparency in Education: What Journal Reviewers Can Do to Encourage Open Science Practices. Gifted Child Quarterly, 67(4), 337-351. https://doi.org/10.1177/0016986223118457

Open Data

Open data outlets.
- https://opendataimpactmap.org/education
- https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/themes/education.aspx
IRIS: A digital depository of instruments and materials for research into second languages. https://www.iris-database.org
Education resources (standards, databases, data policies) registered in FAIRsharing: https://fairsharing.org/browse/subject?term=Education%2520Science

Open Outputs

Open access journals.
Open education science preprint repository.
- https://edarxiv.org/

This page is adapted and extended from: Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb