The Community for Rigor has spent the past two years hard at work developing educational materials to teach core concepts in scientific rigor, and we’re trying hard to get it right.
This Fall, C4R is debuting our first slate of units. Without any further ado, look forward to:
- Causation versus Correlation (w/ Johns Hopkins University/Virginia Tech).
- Formulating a Valid Research Question (w/ Duquesne University).
- Improve your Research Rigor with Randomization (w/ Smith College).
- And the Road to Rigor, our introductory unit to concepts in research rigor.
Activities from some of these short courses will be available for initial testing and feedback at this October’s meeting of the Society for Neuroscience at our workshop “Community for Rigor: A Tool for Teaching the Principles of Rigorous Research.” You can catch our workshop in Chicago on Monday, October 7, from 3-5pm CDT. C4R will also be on the expo floor for the entire conference demonstrating these units and giving out the best merch in Neuroscience–just ask the folks still rocking our socks from last year.
Following the conference, we’ll make our materials available on our website for everyone to get the chance to help us make them as good as possible. Members of the C4R mailing list can expect to receive invitations to help beta test our materials over the coming months either in person at in Philadelphia or via an online focus group. Have a friend who wants in on the action? They better join the Community for Rigor.
With these units ready to meet the world, we’re hard at work on the next ones. Want to help us decide what to make next? Send us a message and let’s talk!
C4R Team
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