The ICEC Research Committee Report

Cain, Leo F.; Dicarlo, Louis M.; Kvaraceus, William C.; Johnson, G. Orville; Lowenfeld, Berthold; Lee, Meyerson; Newland, T. Ernest; Westlake, Harold; Kirk, Samuel A.

doi:10.1177/001440295201900206

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“…Scholars in special education have sought to improve the trustworthiness of their research via increased rigor and quality for generations. For example, in 1952, the Council for Exceptional Children’s Research Committee recommended increasing knowledge and application of “new research techniques which can be used with exceptional children” (Cain et al, 1952, p. 82) to remedy many “strong statements and convictions, but few facts” (Cain et al, 1952, p. 81) available to special educators. Fifty years later, Gersten et al (2005) and Horner et al (2005) proposed (a) quality indicators for conducting and reporting rigorous research and (b) standards for identifying evidence-based practices from high-quality, experimental research in special education.…”

Section: Trustworthy Research Is Open Transparent and Reproduciblementioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting Open Science to Increase the Trustworthiness of Evidence in Special Education

Cook

Lloyd

Mellor

et al. 2018

Exceptional Children

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Scientific evidence should guide the selection of practice for individuals with disabilities. Scientific evidence, however, must be trustworthy to move special education toward greater empirical certainty and more effective policies and practices. Transparency, openness, and reproducibility increase the trustworthiness of evidence. We propose that researchers in special education adopt emerging open-science reforms, such as preprints, data and materials sharing, preregistration of studies and analysis plans, and Registered Reports. Adoption of these practices will require shifts in cultural norms, guidelines, and incentives. We discuss how adopting open-science practices can advance the quality of research and, consequently, policy and practice in special education.

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Section: Trustworthy Research Is Open Transparent and Reproduciblementioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting Open Science to Increase the Trustworthiness of Evidence in Special Education

Cook

Lloyd

Mellor

et al. 2018

Exceptional Children

100

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“…A Call to Action As a mechanism to improve the transparency of scientific research, open science can be thought of as the most recent reform in ongoing efforts to make research in special education and related disciplines more trustworthy (e.g., Cain et al, 1952;Gersten, Baker, & Lloyd, 2000;Odom et al, 2005), with the ultimate goal of improving the policies and practices that research informs. We encourage members of the special education research community to support and employ multiple open-science practices using the grids in Figures 1-4 as a guide.…”

Section: Open Access and Preprintsmentioning

confidence: 99%