Replicability, Generalizability, and the ManyClasses Approach to Open Science

In this recorded talk for the Program for Open Scholarship and Education, Dr. Ben Motz, an assistant professor at Indiana University’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, ties different themes of open scholarship together. In the talk, Dr. Motz describes that, for applied research in higher education, a challenge is the variability of learners and learning settings, and that there are legitimate questions about whether any one finding might be expected to generalize across classes. His ManyClasses research approach tests the generalizability of educational interventions in real classrooms and relies heavily on transparency in their methods and findings.