Preregistration in Practice: Teaching & Learning
- Teaching materials (selection)
- A general introductory presentation from the Center for Open Science.
- A workshop at LMU by Schönbrodt, Scheel, & Stachl.
- Opportunities and recommendations for integrating preregistration in teaching
- Teaching about and early exposure to preregistration are essential elements in the BA statistics/methods curriculum. Preregistsration as a method is currently covered in, e.g., "Einführung Forschungsmethoden (VL)", "Statistik II (VL)", "Sozialpsychologie I (VL)", "Empiriepraktikum (S)"
- Opportunities and recommendations for integrating preregistration in student research projects as well as BA and MA theses
- Making internal or public preregistration is already the default for experimental psychology training (e.g., "Empiriepraktikum"). That is, submitted pre-registrations are an essential part of the course achievements. Additional opportunities for lateral teaching exist by asking students to peer review each others' prereg drafts in the process.
- Making internal or public preregistration the default for BA/MA theses constitutes an additional opportunity. Next to the advantages for students (e.g., clear, efficient roadmap for the analysis and write-up phase of the project), a preregistration serves as the perfect memo for the student and mentor during the project and provides structure during the process (e.g., preregistration as the milestone that marks transitioning from planning/design stage to data collection stage; preregistration as a template for discussing results). It is highly recommended that mentors and students actively discuss the opportunity for including a preregistration as part of the BA/MA thesis.