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Preregistration for speech researchers (Brown & Strand, 2022)

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posted on 2022-12-06, 17:38 authored by Violet A. Brown, Julia F. Strand

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 dramatically in recent years, the practice is still relatively uncommon in research on speech, language, and hearing. Low rates of adoption may be driven by a lack of understanding of the benefits of preregistration (either generally or for our discipline in particular) or uncertainty about how to proceed if it becomes necessary to deviate from the preregistered plan. Alternatively, researchers may see the benefits of preregistration but not know where to start, and gathering this information from a wide variety of sources is arduous and time consuming. This tutorial addresses each of these potential roadblocks to preregistration and equips readers with tools to facilitate writing preregistrations for research on speech, language, and hearing.

Supplemental Material S1. Sample preregistration.

Brown, V. A., & Strand, J. F. (2022). Preregistration: Practical considerations for speech, language, and hearing research. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(6), 1889–1898. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00317

Publisher Note: This article is part of the Forum: Promoting Reproducibility for the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.

Funding

This work was funded by the National Science Foundation through a graduate research fellowship awarded to Violet Brown (DGE-1745038) and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders via a grant to Julia Strand (R15-DC018114).

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