Preregistration: Practical Considerations for Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In the last decade, psychology and other sciences have implemented numerous reforms to improve the robustness of our research, many of which are based on increasing transparency throughout the research process. Among these reforms is the practice of preregistration, in which researchers create a time-stamped and uneditable document before data collection that describes the methods of the study, how the data will be analyzed, the sample size, and many other decisions. The current article highlights the benefits of preregistration with a focus on the specific issues that speech, language, and hearing researchers are likely to encounter, and additionally provides a tutorial for writing preregistrations.

Conclusions

Although rates of preregistration have increased dramat

SUBMITTER: Brown VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10465155 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature