Refers to goals to share research findings broadly and encourage transparency in education research. Transparency can be supported by:
- All key personnel for federally funded grant projects obtaining a PID (Persistent Identifiers) such as ORCID iD (Open Researcher and Contributor Identification prior to a grant award. (Open science policies must be aligned with policies for federal funding agencies that protect national security.)
- Where appropriate, incorporate open science practices including pre-registration of projects, planning and budgeting to support curation of data and analysis codes to facilitate ease of data sharing, and budgeting for publication of findings in open access journals.
- For some federal grant programs, including a plan in grant proposal that describes how project data will be managed and how final research data set will be shared.