Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research: A Protocol for Documenting Data Management and Analysis

Document Type

Journal Article

Role

Author

Standard Number

0022-0485

Journal Title

Journal of Economic Education

Volume

43

Issue

2

First Page

182

Last Page

189

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

This article describes a protocol the authors developed for teaching undergraduates to document their statistical analyses for empirical research projects so that their results are completely reproducible and verifiable. The protocol is guided by the principle that the documentation prepared to accompany an empirical research project should be sufficient to allow an independent researcher to replicate easily and exactly every step of the data management and analysis that generated the results reported in a study. The authors hope that requiring students to follow this protocol will not only teach them how to document their research appropriately, but also instill in them the belief that such documentation is an important professional responsibility. --author-supplied description

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