Open Science in Developmental Science

Gennetian, Lisa A.; Frank, Michael C.; Tamis‐LeMonda, Catherine S.

doi:10.1146/annurev-devpsych-120920-042335

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“…Video recordings allow for new annotations that extend questions beyond those that motivated the initial study (Adolph, 2020). Finally, access to data repositories (e.g., Open Science Foundation, Github, Databrary) allows investigators from regions around the world to contribute new perspectives, questions, and data, moving the field steps closer to a global and inclusive science (Gennetian et al, 2020(Gennetian et al, , 2022.…”

Section: The 4rs Of Open Sciencementioning

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“…Full transparency supports the “4Rs” of open science—to improve R eproducibility, enhance R eplicability, accelerate discovery through R euse, and broaden global R each (Gennetian et al., 2022). In terms of reproducibility, when organizing raw data and analytic code to share with others, researchers must clearly document their variables and analytic steps, reducing the likelihood that others will encounter errors when attempting to verify results (i.e., Klein et al., 2018).…”

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The mountain stream of infant development

Tamis-LeMonda

2023

Infancy

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Development is complex. It encompasses interacting domains, at multiple levels, across nested time scales. Embracing the complexity of development—while addressing the challenges inherent to studying infants—requires researchers to make tough decisions about what to study, why, how, where, and when. My own view is inspired by a developmental systems approach, and echoed in Esther Thelen's (2005) mountain stream metaphor. Like a river that carves its course, the active infant navigates the social and physical environment and generates rich inputs that propel learning and development. Drawing from my experiences, I offer some recommendations to guide research on infants. I encourage researchers to embrace discovery science; to observe infants in ecologically valid settings; to recognize the active and adaptive nature of infant behavior; to break down silos and consider the nonobvious; and to adopt full transparency in all aspects of research. I draw on cascading influences in infant play, language, and motor domains to illustrate the value of a bottom‐up, cross‐domain, collaborative approach.

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Section: The 4rs Of Open Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The mountain stream of infant development

Tamis-LeMonda

2023

Infancy

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“…Rather, developmental science is well known for incorporating a broad array of methods and designs. This methodological diversity has meant that a wide variety of open science reforms require adaptation to be applicable to the full range of research in the field (Gennetian et al, 2022). For example, it was not immediately clear how RRs would work with the large and complex longitudinal designs that are common in the field or the mixed method studies that are increasingly of interest to researchers.…”

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“…The gravity of these issues has led us to realize that our standard approach to research will not, in fact, lead to the reliable, cumulative developmental science we all strive for (e.g., Roisman, 2021). Numerous solutions have been proposed, including preregistering studies, increasing sample sizes, and improving our statistical inferences, among others (Gennetian et al, 2022;Nosek et al, 2018). This Special Section on Child Development highlights one specific proposed reform, the adoption of Registered Reports (RRs), which is a novel, results-independent publishing format.…”

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Registered Reports in Child Development: Introduction to the Special Section

Syed,

Frank,

Roisman

2023

Child Development

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Registered Reports (RRs) are an emerging format for publishing empirical journal articles in which the decision to publish an article is based on sound conceptualization, methods, and planned analyses rather than the specific nature of the results. This article introduces the Special Section on Registered Reports in Child Development by describing what RRs are and why they are necessary, outlining the thought process that guided the Special Section, describing key thematic insights across the eight articles included in the collection, and providing recommendations for developmental researchers interested in publishing via the RR format. This article also serves as a formal announcement that RRs will be a standard publishing option at Child Development, effective immediately.

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“…Researchers studying infant and child development have been responsive to the field's unique challenges in addressing issues related to open science (see Davis-Kean & Ellis, 2019;Eason et al, 2017;Gennetian et al, 2022;Peterson, 2016 for further discussion of these issues) and have led the field toward increasing transparency and replicability in a variety of ways. These responses include developmental-specific considerations about preregistration (Havron et al, 2020), improving measurement (Byers-Heinlein et al, 2021;DeBolt et al, 2020), thinking carefully about sample size issues (Oakes, 2017;Schott et al, 2019), sharing video, audio, and other data (Cychosz et al, 2020;Gilmore et al, 2020Gilmore et al, , 2021, meta-analysis (Bergmann et al, 2018), and collaborative research (Byers-Heinlein et al, 2020;Frank et al, 2017).…”

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Open science considerations for descriptive research in developmental science

Kosie

Lew‐Williams

2022

Infant and Child Development

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Descriptive developmental research seeks to document, describe, and analyze the conditions under which infants and children live and learn. Here, we articulate how open-science practices can be incorporated into descriptive research to increase its transparency, reliability, and replicability. To date, most open-science practices have been oriented toward experimental rather than descriptive studies, and it can be confusing to figure out how to translate openscience practices (e.g., preregistration) for research that is more descriptive in nature. We discuss a number of unique considerations for descriptive developmental research, taking inspiration from existing open-science practices and providing examples from recent and ongoing studies. By embracing a scientific culture where descriptive research and open science coexist productively, developmental science will be better positioned to generate comprehensive theories of development and understand variability in development across communities and cultures. Highlights Descriptive research is vital to the development of comprehensive theories of early development, and open-science practices can increase the transparency and replicability of this effort. Many existing open-science practices are oriented toward experimental rather than descriptive research. Considerations related to the adoption of open-science practices in descriptive research are discussed, complemented by examples of successful adoption.

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Open Science in Developmental Science

Cited by 6 publications

References 69 publications

The mountain stream of infant development

The mountain stream of infant development

Registered Reports in Child Development: Introduction to the Special Section

Open science considerations for descriptive research in developmental science

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