REPLICATE-CER is an NSF-funded project focused on strengthening computing education research (CER) by supporting coordinated, multi-site replication studies. Our goal is to make replication practical, valuable, and rewarding—and to use it as a foundation for theory building in CER.

We are recruiting researchers and educators to join upcoming replication cohorts, either as members of a Replication Design Team or as Replication Participants.

Why replication?

Replication is essential for building confidence in empirical results and for enabling meta-analysis and theory development. Yet fewer than 3% of published CER studies report replications, in part because replication is difficult to organize, difficult to publish, and often undervalued.

This project addresses those challenges by:

• Designing replication packages collaboratively
• Coordinating families of studies across institutions
• Supporting shared data collection, analysis, and dissemination
• Centering equity-enabling research practices
• Creating structures that make replication feasible at scale :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

Two ways to participate

• Replication Design Team
• Replication Participant

Project Mission

This project is intentionally designed to:

• Broaden participation across institution types and researcher backgrounds
• Support equity-enabling research practices
• Value collaboration over novelty
• Treat replication as foundational scholarship, not secondary work