Minnesota Linking Information for Kids: Creating Capacity for Data Intensive Research

明尼苏达大学这一项目的绩效指标正在扩大进行数据密集型跨学科研究的能力，以促进对儿童福祉的知识和理解，包括教育、儿童福利、健康、心理健康和青少年司法等多个数据系统。该项目正在将另外六个数据集整合到目前的明尼苏达州儿童链接信息(Minn-LINK)跨系统数据项目中。该项目正在建立一个来自不同学科社区的研究人员社区，以扩大数据联系，开发有效利用综合数据的基础设施，并组织一个跨学科交流网络。该项目为研究人员提供了一套更全面的数据，扩展了新数据和现有数据的代码簿，并开发了即用即用的数据集和工具，以实现高效利用。一个培养研究生和培养未来研究人员的奖学金计划协调了大学教职员工和州机构工作人员的努力。Minn-link研究员的建设有可能将大学整合到州、地区和地方机构的工作中。研究生的协作培训经验将成为研究员计划的一部分，将教师的研究和纪律知识与机构的经验、对数据集的理解以及对国家面临的政策和实际问题的知识结合在一起。这项提议中的合作社区从幼儿教育的角度出发，而不是从K-12或中学后的角度出发。该项目开发的研究基础设施扩展了整个明尼苏达州的研究人员的能力，以便更好地使用纵向综合数据，以更充分地了解学生在STEM中的表现对教育中多种可塑性因素的影响。

The PIs of this project from the University of Minnesota are expanding the capacity for conducting data-intensive interdisciplinary research to advance knowledge and understanding of child well-being across multiple data systems including education, child welfare, health, mental health and juvenile justice. The project is integrating six additional datasets into the current Minnesota Linking information for Kids (Minn-LInK) cross-system data project. The project is building a community of researchers from diverse disciplinary communities to expand data linkage, develop infrastructure for efficient utilization of integrated data, and organize an interdisciplinary communication network. The project makes a more comprehensive set of data available to researchers, expands codebooks for new and existing data, and develops ready-to-use datasets and tools for efficient utilization. A Fellowship program to train graduate students and develop future researchers coordinates the efforts of university faculty and state agency staff.The construction of the Minn-LInK Fellows has the potential to integrate the university into the work of the state, regional and local agencies. The collaborative training experiences for the graduate students who will be a part of the Fellows program brings together the research and disciplinary knowledge of the faculty with the agencies' experiences, understanding of the datasets, and knowledge of the policy and practical issues that are faced by the state. The collaborative community in this proposal starts from the perspective of early childhood education rather than from a K-12 or postsecondary perspective. The research infrastructure that is developed by this project expands the capacity of researchers throughout the state of Minnesota to better use the longitudinal integrated data to more fully understand the influence of student performances in STEM on multiple malleable factors in education.