Data for: Integrating open education practices with data analysis of open science in an undergraduate course

The open science movement produces vast quantities of openly published data connected to journal articles, creating an enormous resource for educators to engage students in current topics and analyses. However, educators face challenges using these materials to meet course objectives. I present a case study using open science (published articles and their corresponding datasets) and open educational practices in a capstone course. While engaging in current topics of conservation, students trace connections in the research process, learn statistical analyses, and recreate analyses using the programming language R. I assessed the presence of best practices in open articles and datasets, examined student selection in the open grading policy, surveyed students on their perceived learning gains, and conducted a thematic analysis on student reflections. First, articles and datasets met just over half of the assessed fairness practices, but this increased with the publication date. There was a..., Article and dataset fairness
To assess the utility of open articles and their datasets as an educational tool in an undergraduate academic setting, I measured the congruence of each pair to a set of best practices and guiding principles. I assessed ten guiding principles and best practices (Table 1), where each category was scored ‘1’ or ‘0’ based on whether it met that criteria, with a total possible score of ten.
Open grading policies
Students were allowed to specify the percentage weight for each assessment category in the course, including 1) six coding exercises (Exercises), 2) one lead exercise (Lead Exercise), 3) fourteen annotation assignments of readings (Annotations), 4) one final project (Final Project), 5) five discussion board posts and a statement of learning reflection (Discussion), and 6) attendance and participation (Participation). I examined if assessment categories (independent variable) were weighted (dependent variable) differently by students using an analysis of ..., , # Data for: Integrating open education practices with data analysis of open science in an undergraduate course

Author: Marja H Bakermans
Affiliation: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Rd, Worcester, MA 01609 USA
ORCID: [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4879-7771](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4879-7771)
Institutional IRB approval: IRB-24–0314

## Data and file overview

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The full dataset file called OEPandOSdata (.xlsx extension) contains 8 files.
Below are descriptions of the name and contents of each file.
NA = not applicable or no data available

1. BestPracticesData.csv
* Description: Data to assess the adherence of articles and datasets to open science best practices.
* Column headers and descriptions:
* Article: articles used in the study, numbered randomly
* F1: Findable, Data are assigned a unique and persistent doi
* F2: Findable, Metadata includes an identifier of data
* F3: Findable, Data are registered in a searchable database
* A1: ...