Improving Research in Educational Psychology, Psychology, and the Social Sciences

Abstract

<p>The past half-decade has seen the applied sciences in the throes of acute growing pains. In what has become known as the replication crisis, widespread failures to replicate prior findings have shaken several fields, including medicine, psychology, management, and economics. Fortunately, the systemic problems brought to light by the replication crisis have also ignited a “credibility revolution” (Vazire, 2018). This paper provides a brief review of some of the core issues identified in the replication crisis, followed by a discussion of current reform efforts and their potential application in education research.</p>

The replication crisis and equity in STEM classrooms: How a complex systems approach can help

“…The struggles over the last century to improve equity in school systems, and especially in mathematics and science classrooms, are hindered through inquiry practices that seek to reduce or even ignore this complexity. Evidence to support this premise can be found in the so‐called, “replication crisis” (Bokhove, 2022; Inglis et al, 2018; Smith et al, 2019) and in the short lives of so many school improvement initiatives (Askell‐Williams & Koh, 2020). While this phenomenon is most talked about in the fields of medicine, psychology, management, and economics, Perry et al (2022) noted that, while replication studies are rare in education, many of those that are direct replications often produce different results from the original study.…”