Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes

In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness and reproducibility of research, characterized by increased interest and promotion of open and transparent research practices. While progress has been positive, there is a lack of consideration about how this approach can be embedded into undergraduate and postgraduate research training. Specifically, a critical overview of the literature which investigates how integrating open and reproducible science may influence student outcomes is needed. In this paper, we provide the first critical review of literature surrounding the integration of open and reproducible scholarship into teaching and learning and its associated outcomes in students. Our review highlighted how embedding open and reproducible scholarship appears to be associated with (i) students' scientific literacies (i.e. students’ understanding of open research, consumption of science and the development of transferable skills); (ii) student engagement (i.e. motivation and engagement with learning, collaboration and engagement in open research) and (iii) students' attitudes towards science (i.e. trust in science and confidence in research findings). However, our review also identified a need for more robust and rigorous methods within pedagogical research, including more interventional and experimental evaluations of teaching practice. We discuss implications for teaching and learning scholarship.Social decision makin

Oxidized BPL Carbons

A series of oxidized carbons has been prepared by treatment of the carbon with concentrated nitric acid at various temperatures, and the surface and adsorption properties of the prepared carbons studied. Water adsorption was modelled using a recently derived equation capable of predicting a value for the primary adsorption sites on the surface of a microporous carbon while fitting the experimentally determined isotherm at high relative pressures. The concentration of primary sites was seen to increase with increasing temperature of oxidation. The very highly oxidized carbon samples were found to have a significantly lower BET surface area determined from nitrogen desorption at 77 K and higher apparent density measured from mercury displacement