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Crossroads: Using decision making strategies to develop high impact content for training in rigor and transparency.

Award Number: UE5NS133011
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2026

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Crossroads: Using decision making strategies to develop high impact content for training in rigor and transparency. - PROJECT SUMMARY Scientific research can benefit from healthy self-examination and agile, data-driven corrections. The “Reproducibility Crisis” has necessitated structural changes amongst publishers and funders, but individual scientists have not received the level of training necessary to fix common issues in rigor and inadequacies in transparent reporting that contribute to replication problems. While the crisis has prompted numerous workshops, opinion pieces, and quantified replication evaluations in neuroscience, the development of cohesive and high impact training opportunities has not yet occurred. The inaccessibility of training modules makes it difficult to formally train scientists whether they are beginners (e.g., undergraduate students) or seasoned researchers (e.g., tenured professors) without an unrealistic individual time commitment from the scientists themselves. The development of stand-alone educational units covering issues of the scientific process from the philosophical foundations of science all the way to the reporting of data and methods in a transparent manner are critical to making this training both accessible and acceptable to researchers. At the University of Texas at Dallas, we have assembled a team of stakeholders and supporters with rich backgrounds in basic neuroscience research, psychology research and clinical practice, education curricula development, pedagogy research, and the reproducibility crisis itself to build three high impact educational units that will be integrated into the digital platform developed by the Creating an Educational Nexus for Training in Experimental Rigor (CENTER) group. Our focus is on three critical and practical areas of the crisis: (1) Recording of data and methods (2) Exploratory vs confirmatory research, and (3) Interpreting and reporting findings.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $90,000 )
2025	2025	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS	800 WEST CAMPBELL RD.	RICHARDSON	TX	75080	DALLAS	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	001	3	8/19/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$90,000
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS	800 WEST CAMPBELL RD.	RICHARDSON	TX	75080	DALLAS	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	000	2	5/9/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $90,000

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $90,000 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS	800 WEST CAMPBELL RD.	RICHARDSON	TX	75080	DALLAS	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	000	2	7/26/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$90,000
														Subtotal = $90,000

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $90,000 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS	800 WEST CAMPBELL RD.	RICHARDSON	TX	75080	DALLAS	USA	Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders	000	1	7/28/2023	NEW	$90,000
														Subtotal = $90,000

Grand Total All Awards = $270,000

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Crossroads: Using decision making strategies to develop high impact content for training in rigor and transparency.

Award Number: UE5NS133011

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2026

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