ERIC Number: EJ1194118
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Publication Date: 2018
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Open Education Science
van der Zee, Tim; Reich, Justin
AERA Open, v4 n3 Jul-Sep 2018
Scientific progress is built on research that is reliable, accurate, and verifiable. The methods and evidentiary reasoning that underlie scientific claims must be available for scrutiny. Like other fields, the education sciences suffer from problems such as failure to replicate, validity and generalization issues, publication bias, and high costs of access to publications--all of which are symptoms of a nontransparent approach to research. Each aspect of the scientific cycle--research design, data collection, analysis, and publication--can and should be made more transparent and accessible. Open Education Science is a set of practices designed to increase the transparency of evidentiary reasoning and access to scientific research in a domain characterized by diverse disciplinary traditions and a commitment to impact in policy and practice. Transparency and accessibility are functional imperatives that come with many benefits for the individual researcher, scientific community, and society at large--Open Education Science is the way forward.
Descriptors: Science Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Scientific Research, Open Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Researchers, Shared Resources and Services, Access to Information, Electronic Publishing
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