Plan for Instruction in Methods for Enhancing Reproducibility
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Scientific rigor is the strict application of the scientific method to ensure unbiased and well-controlled experimental design, methodology, analysis, interpretation and reporting of results. Scientific rigor also includes transparency in reporting full experimental details so that others may reproduce and extend the findings.
- The plan must describe how trainees will be instructed in principles important for enhancing research reproducibility. These principles include, at a minimum, the following:
- Evaluation of the foundational research underlying a project (i.e., the rigor of the prior research);
- Rigorous experimental design and data interpretation
- Consideration of relevant biological variables such as sex
- Authentication of key biological and/or chemical resources
- Transparency in reporting
- Include a description of how instructional strategies will be integrated into the overall training program at multiple stages of trainee development and in a variety of formats and contexts.
- Describe how program faculty will reiterate and augment key elements of methods for enhancing reproducibility in the context of trainees' research projects.
Drs. Steffanie Strathdee and Robert (Chip) Schooley have provided a template that can be used as a starting point for addressing this portion of the training grant proposal.
See Also
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