Agenda
This page summarizes some of the projects the committee might choose to work on. The list is not exhaustive.
Open science/open scholarship
- How do we consolidating existing open science/open scholarship expertise in the department and build upon it?
- How do we promoting these topics more widely in our research, teaching and training, including at the undergraduate level?
- For example, what about “teaching replication” (Chopik, Bremner, Defever, & Keller, 2018; Frank & Saxe, 2012)? See Boyce, Mathur, & Frank (2023) for some interesting results derived from a graduate methods course that specifically taught replication.
Forging partnerships
- Should the committee seek to identify possible partners across the university and work to strengthen ties with them?
Information gathering
- Do we need more or better information about quantitative methods use and needs in the department?
Enhancing graduate teaching
- Are the needs outlined in the Fall 2023 memo still relevant in Fall 2024?
- If successful, will the 2024-25 searches mitigate some of the needs?
- What else could or should be done?
Curriculum assessment
- Should we work with faculty who teach undergraduate methods and statistics courses to support their work?
- Do we want or need to support new graduate coursework in the following topics:
- Data management and sharing
- Data visualization
- Software development including version control
- Research notebooks, e.g., Jupyter notebooks and Quarto
References
Boyce, V., Mathur, M., & Frank, M. C. (2023). Eleven years of student replication projects provide evidence on the correlates of replicability in psychology. Royal Society Open Science, 10(11), 231240. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231240
Chopik, W. J., Bremner, R. H., Defever, A. M., & Keller, V. N. (2018). How (and whether) to teach undergraduates about the replication crisis in psychological science. Teaching of Psychology, 45(2), 158–163. https://doi.org/10.1177/0098628318762900
Frank, M. C., & Saxe, R. (2012). Teaching replication. Perspectives on Psychological Science: A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 7(6), 600–604. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691612460686