Institutionalizing, Sustaining, and Enhancing the Registry of Efficacy and Effectiveness

In this project, researchers promoted the usefulness, sustainability, and visibility of the Registry of Efficacy and Effectiveness Studies (REES), a registry of impact studies in education. REES was initially developed with a previous IES grant to the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) in an effort to increase transparency, improve the replicability of studies, and provide easy access to information about completed and ongoing studies. In addition to increasing transparency, the registry has the potential to improve education policy and practice by (a) encouraging researchers to think carefully about all aspects of the study design and analysis, (b) allowing stakeholders to identify research gaps by easily locating completed and ongoing studies, (c) expediting the process of conducting research syntheses and replication studies, and (d) providing a mechanism for assessing potential publication bias in educational research.