Estimating the Prevalence of Teaching Open Science

Open Science is a movement to get researchers to adopt reforms such a preregistration of analysis plans, materials and data being publicly posted, analysis plans being described and made open before data collection. While a noble movement, it requires adoption by the next generation of researchers to continue to grow. One place students learn to conduct research is in their education in Research Methods. Here, we take a random sample of N universities in the United States, surveying all instructors of Research Methods-type courses from the Fall 2024 semester. We ask if and what aspects of Open Science they have included in numerous aspects of their course. This is in an effort to estimate what percentage of American Psychology students are being exposed to Open Science.