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Reproducibility may be the key idea students need to balance trust in evidence with healthy skepticism

Check out a new article about the benefits of teaching reproducibility in The Conversation.

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View reproducible research in action using the TIER protocol

Read three 2025 senior theses from the Haverford Department of Economics, all implementing the TIER Protocol.

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2025 UKRN workshops

These workshops will introduce attendees to Project TIER’s principles and practices of integrating reproducible methods into teaching and research. Attendance is limited to instructors and staff whose institutions are members of the UK Reproducibility Network.

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“Yes We Can!”: A Practical Approach to Teaching Reproducibility to Undergraduates

Check out Richard Ball's latest article, published in the Harvard Data Science Review.

New Exercise: Employment Discrimination Lab

Matthew Platt's reproducibility exercise built on R/RStudio/R Markdown is now available in the Soup-to-Nuts Exercises section of the web site.

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Announcing: Launch of New TIER Protocol Version 4.0

The 4.0 version of the TIER Protocol provides more advanced guidance on folder structure and working with relative paths to ensure a portable, automatic, and fully replicable project. With a streamlined presentation format, this version of the TIER protocol provides more information and is easier to follow than ever.

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TIER is changing the culture of research in the classroom

"Teaching project organization at the start of the course has made it easier for my students to troubleshoot errors, communicate results, and develop good habits for their future careers."

- Jenna Krall, 2017-18 TIER Fellow

TIER is changing the culture of research in the classroom

"This course taught me to make sure I'm always checking in my data analysis scripts as source code into a repository that can be repeated by anyone."

- Gabe Rybeck, Haverford College class of 2016

TIER is changing the culture of research in the classroom

"I require all my students to fully document their data sources and data manipulation... Investing in teaching documentation and coding has very high returns."

- Tomas Dvorak, 2015-16 TIER Fellow

TIER is changing the culture of research in the classroom

"The TIER program has helped me advocate for open science change in my institutional and professional environments."

- Chris Conway, 2019-20 TIER Fellow

TIER is changing the culture of research in the classroom

"All of my students have benefited greatly from having specific guidelines in order to make their research reproducible and transparent."

- David Vera, TIER Executive Committee

Join the TIER Network

The TIER Network is a forum for exchange of ideas among instructors, researchers, and data support specialists working to integrate transparency and reproducibility into the training of students in quantitative research methods.

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