Strengthening the foundation of educational psychology by integrating construct validation into open science reform

An increased focus on transparency and replication in science has stimulated reform research practices dissemination. As a result, the culture is changing: use of preregistration rise, access to data materials increasing, large-scale studies are more common. In this article, I discuss two problems methodological movement now ready tackle given progress thus far how educational psychology particularly well suited contribute. The first problem that there lack rigor measurement development use. second caused by first—replication difficult potentially futile as long persists. describe expand transparent into measure construct validation can be implemented bolster validity studies.