| Title | Open science and reproducible research |
|---|---|
| Course number | 2963 |
| Programme | 0-Not part of doctoral programme |
| Language | English |
| Credits | 3.0 |
| Date | 2021-03-08 – 2021-03-19 |
| Responsible KI department | Department of Clinical Neuroscience |
| Specific entry requirements | |
| Purpose of the course | The purpose of the course is to provide an overview of current challenges in reproducibility and to provide tools and skills for students wishing to practice science openly. |
| Intended learning outcomes | After the course, students should be able to: |
- Analyse reproducibility problems in science, including the impact of analysis flexibility and questionable research practices, and identify practices contributing to improved reproducibility
- Account for principles of replication research
- Preregister research protocols and assess others’ preregistered research protocols
- Openly publish scientific works including data and code, and find and make use of scientific works, including data and code, published by others.|
|Contents of the course| - The ““reproducibility crisis”” in biomedical sciences: what is it?
- Research fraud and questionable research practices
- Impact of bias due to analysis flexibility
- Observed statistical power and implications for inference
- Comprehensive methods reporting and field-specific guidelines
- Preregistration of protocols
- Replication research
- Open access publishing
- Open materials, open data, and open code
- Introduction to principles of data re-use in secondary analyses and meta-analyses|