CFP Journal Club is open to anyone interested in learning about new findings from the teaching and learning literature.

 

Presenter: Diane Lam, PhD

Curriculum Fellow, Microbiology and Immunobiology

 

This journal club will be a dicsussion of recent initiatives to assess the reproducibility of scientific inquiry. We will discuss a paper that focuses on the cell & molecular biology work that is directly applicable to research at HMS and a paper investigating the cognitive psychology research that that informs evidence-based teaching practice.

 

Papers:

1) Nosek BA, Errington TM. Making sense of replications. Elife. 2017 Jan 19;6.pii: e23383. doi: 10.7554/eLife.23383. PubMed PMID: 28100398; PubMed CentralPMCID: PMC5245957.

2) Open Science Collaboration.. PSYCHOLOGY. Estimating the reproducibility ofpsychological science. Science. 2015 Aug 28;349(6251):aac4716. doi:10.1126/science.aac4716. PubMed PMID: 26315443.