Transforming Theory and STEM Education Through Reproductions and Replications in the Geographical Sciences

这个项目为科学的可重复性建立了一个理论框架。在这个框架内，研究人员将创建在人类环境和地理科学（HEGS）研究中增加复制和复制使用的协议。复制品在保持研究输入数据和参数不变的情况下重复一项研究，从而建立先前研究的可信度和可推广性。该项目响应了政府对透明和可重复研究日益增长的要求。它将对最近的高影响力HEGS研究进行再现和复制研究，以建立影响公共政策所必需的可信度和普遍性。研究人员将把这个可重复科学的框架整合到本科和研究生的方法课程中，从而形成一个教授可重复研究和可重复研究实践的课程。HEGS在采用更具可重复性的研究实践方面比其他学科要慢，这受到了缺乏成熟的典型重复性研究、教授可重复性的课程以及多变的地理环境给可重复性带来的挑战的限制。HEGS在可重复性和可重复性障碍方面的研究实践状况如何？最近高影响力HEGS研究的可信度和普遍性能否通过再现和重复来建立？教学再现和复制是否能获得与基于项目的学习教学法相同的好处，并培养研究人员在HEGS中进行可重复研究的能力？拟议的工作预计将建立基础调查研究、复制和复制研究和教学方法，通过复制和复制研究的科学过程积累知识，从而改变HEGS的研究实践。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project establishes a theoretical framework for the reproducibility of science. Within this framework the researchers will create protocols for increasing the use of reproductions and replications in human-environment and geographical science (HEGS) research. Reproductions repeat a study while holding the input data and parameters of the study constant, thereby establishing credibility and generalizability of prior research. This project is responsive to increasing governmental requirements for transparent and reproducible research. It will conduct reproduction and replication studies of recent high-impact HEGS research to establish credibility and generalizability necessary to influence public policy. The investigators will integrate this framework for reproducible science into undergraduate and graduate methods courses resulting in a curriculum for teaching replication studies and reproducible research practices.HEGS has been slower than other disciplines to adopt more reproducible research practices, limited by a lack of well-developed exemplar replication studies, curricula for teaching reproducibility, and the challenge that variable geographic contexts cause for replication. What is the state of research practices in HEGS with regard to reproducibility and barriers to reproducibility? Can the credibility and generalizability of recent high-impact HEGS research be established through reproductions and replications? Can teaching reproductions and replications achieve the same benefits as project-based learning pedagogies and develop researchers with the capabilities for doing reproducible research in HEGS? The proposed work is anticipated to establish the foundational survey research, reproduction and replication studies and pedagogies necessary to transform research practices in HEGS by building knowledge through the scientific process of reproducing and replicating studies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.