EAGER: The Creation and Classroom Application of a Web Portal for Social Science Methods Education

几乎没有免费提供的教育材料来满足基础研究方法课程的需要，而那些诸如计量经济学之类的流派可能需要大量的数学先决条件。 制作易于理解的问题集和课堂讲稿需要大量时间，但需要这种准备的方法课程在所有类型的机构中越来越普遍。 OPOSSEM，社会科学教育和方法的在线门户网站，通过为中学，本科和研究生环境中的教育工作者提供各种社会科学研究方法的教学资源来解决这些问题。 该门户网站由大学间政治和社会研究联合会主办，该联合会为其提供了长期服务，开发该门户网站的项目具有很大的智力价值。 它有可能通过采用尖端和广泛可用的技术和方法来改变社会科学中的方法论教学，以促进中学，本科和研究生教师之间教育网络和社区的形成。 该项目还具有广泛的影响。 首先，项目材料将被用作扬克顿苏族部落保留地Ihanktowan社区学院美洲土著学生试点项目的一部分。 这些学生将通过这个项目提供资源，可能会鼓励他们考虑社会科学作为一个主要或研究生的追求。 第二，门户网站将提供资源，加强社会科学本科生的培训。 这将使这些领域的潜在研究生能够更好地准备进行研究生学习。 第三，也是最后一点，该项目的对象是中学社会科学和数学教师。 许多以数学为导向的高中生倾向于自然科学，因为他们在数学和科学教科书中看到了这些科学的应用。 其中一些学生可能会被鼓励考虑社会科学，如果他们接触到类似的例子，在这些科学。 传送门会让这更有可能。

Little educational material is freely available to serve the needs of basic research methods courses and those available in genres such as econometrics may require substantial mathematical prerequisites. The creation of accessible problem sets and and lecture notes is time intensive, but methods courses requiring such preparation are becoming more widespread across all types of institutions. OPOSSEM, the Online Portal of Social Science Education and Methodology, solves these problems by providing various resources for teaching social science research methods for edcuators in secondary, undergraduate, and postgraduate settings. The web portal is hosted by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which provides for its long term longevity.This project, which develops this portal, has substantial intellectual merit. It has the potential to transform methodological instruction in the social sciences by adopting cutting edge and broadly available technologies and methodologies to promote the formation of educational networks and communities among secondary, undergraduate, and graduate instructors. This project also has substantial broader impacts. First, project materials will be used as part of a pilot project by Native American students at the Ihanktowan Community College on the Yankton Sioux Tribe Reservation. These students will be provided with resources through this project that may encourage them to consider the social sciences as a major or graduate pursuit. Second, the portal will provide resources that will strengthen undergraduate training in the social sciences. This will result in the pool of potential graduate students in these fields to be better prepared to undertake graduate study. Third and finally, the project reaches out to secondary school teachers in both the social sciences and the mathematical sciences. Many mathematically oriented high school students lean to the natural sciences because they see applications to those sciences in their math and science textbooks. Some of these students may be encouraged to consider the social sciences if they are exposed to similar examples in those sciences. The portal will make this more likely.