Anything that might be helpful for preregistration... ## Useful resources - [Getting started with the OSF](https://help.osf.io/article/342-getting-started-on-the-osf) - [Pre-registration badge specifications](https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki/1.%20View%20the%20Badges/) - [A chapter on the subject](https://osf.io/nte3j/) - [Pre-Registration paper: van ‘t Veer, A.E., & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2016). Pre-registration in Social Psychology—a discussion and suggested template. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.03.004](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.03.004) - [OSF Wiki of Preregistration templates](https://osf.io/zab38/wiki/home/) ##### Articles and Blogs About Preregistration - [The Preregistration Revolution](https://www.pnas.org/content/115/11/2600) ([preprint](https://osf.io/2dxu5/)) - [Research Preregistration 101](http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/research-preregistration-101#.WR3GyFPyvOT) (and [other articles about preregistration at APS](https://www.psychologicalscience.org/tag/preregistration)) - [Preregistration: A Plan, Not a Prison](http://cos.io/blog/preregistration-plan-not-prison/) (and [other blogs about preregistration on cos.io/blog](https://cos.io/blog/tag/preregistration/)) - [A manifesto for reproducible science](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-016-0021) - [Trust in science would be improved by study pre-registration](https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2013/jun/05/trust-in-science-study-pre-registration) - [Let’s think about cognitive bias](http://www.nature.com/news/let-s-think-about-cognitive-bias-1.18520) - [Seven Selfish Reasons for Preregistration](http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/seven-selfish-reasons-for-preregistration#.WR3HblMrLOS) ##### Presentations, Teaching Materials, and Instructions - **Webinars**: [Preregistration: Improve Research Rigor, Reduce Bias](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PboPpcg6ik4), [Preregistration on OSF](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnKkGO3OM9c), [Registered Reports for Early Career Researchers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnugQLY2Zog) - **Teaching materials**: A general [introductory presentation](https://osf.io/t4p9g/). A [workshop](https://osf.io/yd487/) at LMU by Schönbrodt, Scheel, & Stachl. A [workshop](https://osf.io/4acje/) at APS 2019.  - **Contact** [researchers who have preregistered before](https://osf.io/e6auq/wiki/Preregistration%20Community%20Support/) and who have said they would be happy to help you. - **Templates** of many preregistration forms are available [here](https://osf.io/zab38/wiki/home/?view). - **Primers** on preregistration (and other open science topics) [created by the UK Reproducibility Network](https://www.bristol.ac.uk/psychology/research/ukrn/about/resources/). - **Help** [docs and instructions](https://help.osf.io/article/158-create-a-preregistration) to register any project on OSF.  - **Checklist** [of items to include](https://osf.io/ncqg7/) when creating an analysis plan for some common statistical models. - **Checklist** [items to include when writing up](https://osf.io/zwkqj/) the results of preregistered research. - **Transparent Changes** When you write up the results of preregistered research, it is important to transparently disclose any changes from the proposed plan. See [here for a template Transparent Changes document](https://osf.io/yrvcg/) and here for an [ongoing project to help structure these disclosures](https://osf.io/ywrqe/).  - **Example preregistrations** are available in [this curated list](https://osf.io/e6auq/wiki/Example%20Preregistrations/?view) or by searching through the [OSF Registry](https://osf.io/registries/) ## Places to preregistration your study - [Center for Open Science](https://www.cos.io/initiatives/registered-reports): allows full specification, scripts, images, etc. - [As Predicted](https://aspredicted.org/): simple and quick - Other options for preregistration include [ClinicalTrials.gov](http://ClinicalTrials.gov), AEA Registry, Evidence in Government and Politics, and trial registries in the World Health Organization Registry Network. See van ‘t Veer and Giner-Sorolla (2016) for additional resources related to preregistration. ## General Types of Preregistration ### Preregistration (a.k.a. unreviewed preregistration) The researcher creates as detailed a description of his or her plans for a study as possible and saves those plans in a time-stamped, uneditable archive. This record can be shared with reviewers, editors, and other researchers. ### Registered Reports (a.k.a. reviewed preregistration) The researcher submits a detailed proposal for a study to a journal before conducting the study. These registered reports have the same virtues as preregistration, but they also address the problem of publication bias because the studies are published regardless of their outcomes. Registered Reports are most useful for well-defined research domains in which reviewers can reasonably assess the likelihood that a proposed study will be informative regardless of its outcome. ([Click here](https://cos.io/rr/#RR) for a list of such journals and for a more extensive discussion.) ### Registered Replication Reports (RRR) A variant of Registered Reports, RRRs are focused on direct replication of one or more original findings. Many labs follow the same preregistered plan, and the results from all of those independent studies are published collectively regardless of the outcomes of individual studies. Variants of such reports include RRRs in _Perspectives on Psychological Science_ and the [ManyLabs project](https://osf.io/89vqh/), among others. ## How to do a preregistration The OSF site provides a detailed example of [how to do a preregistration](https://osf.io/sgrk6/). That example uses a template (OSF provides a number of those), but you don’t have to use one. In fact, you can type your plans in a Word file, upload that to OSF, and preregister it. > Note: **If you are following these instructions, do not use the template included within that document. Instead, see the [OSF Wiki of templates](https://osf.io/zab38/wiki/home/).** --- #### Related #academic_resources #preregistration