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Replication FailureOpen accessSocial Sciences

Investigating Variation in Replicability

Richard Klein, Kate A. Ratliff, Michelangelo Vianello et al. · 2014 · Social Psychology

Although replication is a central tenet of science, direct replications are rare in psychology. This research tested variation in the replicability of 13 classic and contemporary effects across 36 independent samples totaling 6,344…

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Replication FailureOpen accessSocial Sciences

Findings on Summer Learning Loss Often Fail to Replicate, Even in Recent Data

Joseph Workman, Paul von Hippel, Joseph J. Merry · 2023 · Sociological Science

It is widely believed that (1) children lose months of reading and math skills over summer vacation and that (2) inequality in skills grows much faster during summer than during school. Concerns have been raised about the replicability of evidence for these claims, but an impression may exist that nonreplicable findings are limited to older studies. After reviewing the 100-year history of nonreplicable results on summer learning, we compared three recent data sources (ECLS- K:2011, NWEA, and Renaissance) that tracked U.S. elementary students' skills through school years and summers in the 2010

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Integrated Motivational Strategies for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators with Substance Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Cristina Expósito-Álvarez, Manuel Roldán-Pardo, Gail Gilchrist et al. · 2024 · Psychosocial Intervention

Objective: Intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators with alcohol and/or other drug use problems (ADUPs) have been identified as one of the main high-risk and highly resistant groups of perpetrators requiring special attention in…

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