Dear Fellow Workshop Members,

We just completed Day 1 of the introduction to replication studies.  I have posted the presentation slides and the Exercise 1 and 2 instructions in the Schwab Dropbox folder (link). In this folder, I will also post some of the academic papers that were mentioned in today's session, including John Platt's Strong Inference paper and Schwab et al.'s Thoughtful Assessments paper. Plus, Bem's now-famous Feeling the Future paper, as well as Ed Locke and Gary Latham's Building a Theory by Induction paper. The latter provides a nice illustration for building theory via constructive replications. I may post more as we move forward. Again, these readings are for your interest and as a follow-up on some of the issues we discussed more briefly today.

I hope that you gained a deeper appreciation for replication studies during our discussions today, while simultaneously recognizing the complex design and execution issues they raise. Tomorrow, we will add complexities related to analyzing replication data and publishing replication reports. 

Beyond this discussion board, you can also contact me directly via email: aschwab@iastate.edu

See you tomorrow,  Andreas Schwab