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The Hong Kong Principles for assessing researchers: Fostering research integrity
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For knowledge to benefit research and society, it must be trustworthy. Trustworthy research is robust, rigorous, and transparent at all stages of design, execution, and reporting. Assessment of researchers still rarely includes considerations related to trustworthiness, rigor, and transparency. We have developed the Hong Kong Principles (HKPs) as part of the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity with a specific focus on the need to drive research improvement through ensuring that researchers are explicitly recognized and rewarded for behaviors that strengthen research integrity. We present five principles: responsible research practices; transparent reporting; open science (open research); valuing a diversity of types of research; and recognizing all contributions to research and scholarly activity. For each principle, we provide a rationale for its inclusion and provide examples where these principles are already being adopted.

Subject:
Education
Higher Education
Material Type:
Reading
Author:
Anne-Marie Coriat
David Moher
Lex Bouter
Mai Har Sham
Nicole Foeger
Paul Glasziou
Sabine Kleinert
Ulrich Dirnagl
Virginia Barbour
Date Added:
06/26/2023
Human Impacts on Sharks: Developing an Essay Through Peer-Review on a Discussion Board
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Through a discussion board, students comment and respond to paper topics on the human impacts on sharks.

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Biology
Ecology
Life Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Teach the Earth
Author:
Laura Guertin
Date Added:
09/28/2022
Information Exploration: Becoming a Savvy Scholar
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This freshman course explores the scientific publication cycle, primary vs. secondary sources, and online and in-print bibliographic databases; how to search, find, evaluate, and cite information; indexing and abstracting; using special resources (e.g. patents) and “grey literature” (e.g. technical reports and conference proceedings); conducting Web searches; and constructing literature reviews.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Barbera, Patty
Locknar, Angie
Sadoway, Donald
Date Added:
09/01/2006
An Introduction to Peer Review
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This lesson explains what peer review is, why it's important, and how to practice peer review. Peer review is a valuable communication skill that employers seek out in potential employees. Strategies for how to apply this skill to the job hunt are discussed within the lesson.This lesson was adapted from The Peer Review Kit: A Resource for Educators, developed by learning designers at ed2go, a Cengage company.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Communication
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Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Student Guide
Author:
Nathaniel Lloyd
Date Added:
05/27/2024
OER-UCLouvain: Design research
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The following moodle archive and documents are used for a course entitled Research Desing in Political Science (or in french Séminaire du Travail Universitaire). The course structure is oriented to competencies rather than to knowledge (methodology class). In order to help students to acquire and practice those competencies, we organize 3 types of exercices: critical reading, critical writing and critical evaluation. In addition to the exercises, students have to pass a mutiple choice exam (MCQ) about a peer review of a research paper (they have to read the paper/article 72 hours before the exam) and answer to MCQ. Each course is a organized as the following: 30' of activity debriefing, 60' explaining main topics about research desing and 30' about outcomes for next exercise. For any information, just drop a mail: pierre.baudewyns@uclouvain.be

Subject:
Social Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Université catholique de Louvain
Provider Set:
OER-UCLOUVAIN
Author:
BAUDEWYNS Pierre
Date Added:
09/11/2017
Open Educational Resources for Spanish classes - Advanced Spanish Composition II
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As part of the Worcester State University OER initiative in Spring 2017, Dr. Elizabeth Osborne created and translated course materials for her SP 322, Advanced Spanish Composition II, course. Materials have been divided into peer review (revisión por pares) handouts, close reading activities (actividades de lectura detallada) and other miscellaneous materials. The materials included here are by no means exhaustive, but they serve as a starting point to making education affordable and to filling the gap in Spanish-language OER for upper division courses.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Student Guide
Syllabus
Provider:
Worcester State University
Author:
Elizabeth Osborne
Date Added:
05/29/2017
Open science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and beyond
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The movement towards open science is a consequence of seemingly pervasive failures to replicate previous research. This transition comes with great benefits but also significant challenges that are likely to affect those who carry out the research, usually early career researchers (ECRs). Here, we describe key benefits, including reputational gains, increased chances of publication, and a broader increase in the reliability of research. The increased chances of publication are supported by exploratory analyses indicating null findings are substantially more likely to be published via open registered reports in comparison to more conventional methods. These benefits are balanced by challenges that we have encountered and that involve increased costs in terms of flexibility, time, and issues with the current incentive structure, all of which seem to affect ECRs acutely. Although there are major obstacles to the early adoption of open science, overall open science practices should benefit both the ECR and improve the quality of research. We review 3 benefits and 3 challenges and provide suggestions from the perspective of ECRs for moving towards open science practices, which we believe scientists and institutions at all levels would do well to consider.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
PLOS Biology
Author:
Christopher Allen
David M. A. Mehler
Date Added:
08/07/2020
Peer Review: Decisions, decisions
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Journals are exploring new approaches to peer review in order to reduce bias, increase transparency and respond to author preferences. Funders are also getting involved. If you start reading about the subject of peer review, it won't be long before you encounter articles with titles like Can we trust peer review?, Is peer review just a crapshoot? and It's time to overhaul the secretive peer review process. Read some more and you will learn that despite its many shortcomings – it is slow, it is biased, and it lets flawed papers get published while rejecting work that goes on to win Nobel Prizes – the practice of having your work reviewed by your peers before it is published is still regarded as the 'gold standard' of scientific research. Carry on reading and you will discover that peer review as currently practiced is a relatively new phenomenon and that, ironically, there have been remarkably few peer-reviewed studies of peer review.

Subject:
Applied Science
Information Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
eLife
Author:
Peter Rodgers
Date Added:
08/07/2020
Peer Review Kit: A Resource for Educators
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The Peer Review Kit: A Resource for Educators was developed by learning designers at ed2go, a Cengage company. The kit provides portable peer review content that can be repurposed and revised by educators to suit their specific online course needs. This lesson explains what peer review is, why it's important, and how to practice peer review in an online setting (both asynchronous and synchronous). Content is specific to creative writing, but can be easily modified to fit other subject areas. Quick true or false self-assessments, a multiple-choice quiz, sample peer review assignments, rubrics, discussion prompts, and resources for further learning are also provided. Peer review is a valuable communication skill that employers seek out in potential employees. Strategies for how to apply this soft skill to the job hunt are discussed within the lesson.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Communication
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Jeanine Glatfelter
Amanda Stockholm
Date Added:
06/03/2021
Peer Review for International Students
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International students are often unsure of how to help each other with their writing within an American academic context.  They might feel they do not have the expertise in the format or the content to improve each other's work.  In this type of targeted lesson, students feel empowered to make comments based on what they hear, and they are not required to make so many comments that it seems overwhelming.  In addition, because of the reading and listening aspects of the lesson, students are engaged in practicing different types of skills in the activity.  The goal is for students to come away with enough constructive criticism from their peers to move forward with the next draft of their written work but in an environment that is supportive and practical for their purposes.  Created by Aimee Weinstein, INTO George Mason University with support from Mason 4-VA. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Module
Author:
Aimee Weinstein
Date Added:
09/25/2017
The Post-Embargo Open Access Citation Advantage: It Exists (Probably), It’s Modest (Usually), and the Rich Get Richer (of Course)
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Many studies show that open access (OA) articles—articles from scholarly journals made freely available to readers without requiring subscription fees—are downloaded, and presumably read, more often than closed access/subscription-only articles. Assertions that OA articles are also cited more often generate more controversy. Confounding factors (authors may self-select only the best articles to make OA; absence of an appropriate control group of non-OA articles with which to compare citation figures; conflation of pre-publication vs. published/publisher versions of articles, etc.) make demonstrating a real citation difference difficult. This study addresses those factors and shows that an open access citation advantage as high as 19% exists, even when articles are embargoed during some or all of their prime citation years. Not surprisingly, better (defined as above median) articles gain more when made OA.

Subject:
Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
PLOS ONE
Author:
Jim Ottaviani
Date Added:
08/07/2020
Publication Bias in Psychology: A Diagnosis Based on the Correlation between Effect Size and Sample Size
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Background The p value obtained from a significance test provides no information about the magnitude or importance of the underlying phenomenon. Therefore, additional reporting of effect size is often recommended. Effect sizes are theoretically independent from sample size. Yet this may not hold true empirically: non-independence could indicate publication bias. Methods We investigate whether effect size is independent from sample size in psychological research. We randomly sampled 1,000 psychological articles from all areas of psychological research. We extracted p values, effect sizes, and sample sizes of all empirical papers, and calculated the correlation between effect size and sample size, and investigated the distribution of p values. Results We found a negative correlation of r = −.45 [95% CI: −.53; −.35] between effect size and sample size. In addition, we found an inordinately high number of p values just passing the boundary of significance. Additional data showed that neither implicit nor explicit power analysis could account for this pattern of findings. Conclusion The negative correlation between effect size and samples size, and the biased distribution of p values indicate pervasive publication bias in the entire field of psychology.

Subject:
Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
PLOS ONE
Author:
Anton Kühberger
Astrid Fritz
Thomas Scherndl
Date Added:
08/07/2020
Reducing Volcanic Hazards to People and Property - An Assignment with Electronic Peer Review
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This electronic peer review exercise has students discuss the major volcanic hazards and risks to humans.

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Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Teach the Earth
Author:
Laura Guertin
Date Added:
09/18/2022
Registered Reports Q&A
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This webinar addresses questions related to writing, reviewing, editing, or funding a study using the Registered Report format, featuring Chris Chambers and ...

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
Center for Open Science
Author:
Chris Chambers
david mellor
Date Added:
03/31/2021
Source Evaluation Using a Facebook Fight
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This activity walks through a real life Facebook Fight and walks through some processes of source evaluation. Using a familiar object such as Facebook, makes the source evaluation process relatable and tangible for students.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lecture
Date Added:
04/25/2018
Survival Skills for Researchers: The Responsible Conduct of Research
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This course is designed to provide graduate students and postdoctoral associates with techniques that enhance both validity and responsible conduct in scientific practice. Lectures present practical steps for developing skills in scientific research and are combined with discussion of cases. The course covers study design, preparation of proposals and manuscripts, peer review, authorship, use of humans and non-human animals in research, allegations of misconduct, and intellectual property. Also discussed are mentoring relationships and career options. Aspects of responsible research conduct are integrated into lectures and case discussion as appropriate to the specific topic. This course also satisfies the training grant requirements of the NIH for education in the responsible conduct of research.
Beginning in Spring 2004, this course will be titled “Survival Skills for Researchers: The Responsible Conduct of Research.”

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Literature
Philosophy
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Bird, Stephanie
Myers, Elizabeth
Date Added:
02/01/2003