https://doi.org/10.54825/123458
Gillian Murphy & Ciara M. Greene
The replication crisis has had a profound effect on how we conduct research in psychology and relatedly, on how we train university students in research methods. In our teaching of psychological research methods, we may highlight to students that we, as a field, are striving to improve reproducibility and to reduce research waste. However, we often supervise these same students in conducting underpowered individual research projects. One solution is greater collaboration in student projects. In this reflective practice paper, we describe our experience in supervising an inter-institutional collaborative replication project. Eight Masters’ students collaborated in replicating the famous “Lost in the mall” false memory study, with a much larger sample than the original experiment. Each student contributed to the overall replication while also writing up an individual element. Here we describe the processes we used to manage the project and the lessons learned. We encourage other third-level educators to adopt these supervision methods, where appropriate, and conclude with some practical tips and resources for conducting collaborative replications with students. [DOWNLOAD PDF]
