Greater collaboration between academic researchers and industry could increase the probability that companies will be able to replicate the results of academic research.
That is that the standardised tests they employ to evaluate critical thinking skills – such as PISA, Watson-Glaser, and HCTAES – do not adequately replicate the kind of academic tasks students must carry out in their studies at universities.
Three factors were used to investigate differences between the two sample populations that may explain why findings in the summer study did not replicate to the academic year study: prior knowledge, problem difficulty, and students' help-seeking behavior.
We encourage researchers to replicate the study in different types of universities and academic departments.
Chaskin is planning to replicate the program for next summer, and he hopes similar courses, perhaps with different academic focuses, can also be developed.
But because Soljacic published his academic paper in Nature magazine, companies like Intel have been able to replicate the effect in their labs based on his principles.
In addition, the record of the steps that lead to a scientific conclusion can be attached to academic papers in the form of a URL so that other scientists can attempt to replicate the findings.
