Collaborative Research: ECR Data Resource Hub: Partnership for Expanding Education Research in STEM (PEERS)

密歇根大学的大学间政治和社会研究联盟（ICPSR）和美国教育研究协会（AERA）提议创建一个ECR数据资源中心，即扩大STEM教育研究伙伴关系（PEERS）。其目标是围绕相关形式的数据建立联系、教育和社区，并提供专注于数据技能、工具和资源的专业发展。PEERS将把研究人员连接到存储库和数据源，以及数据共享材料和分析数据的学习工具，以促进研究的透明度和可重复性。PEERS将与新数据的生产者或保管人合作，包括管理、视频捕获、流媒体和其他非设计数据。PEERS还将让数据科学家参与开发发现、访问和分析这些设计和非设计数据的新方法，以支持它们用于STEM教育研究，并将与擅长使用新技术编目和创建用户友好查找辅助工具的图书馆员合作。PEERS将加强研究，以推进新知识，并解决与STEM教育和学习的政策和实践相关的问题。它将扩大和多样化STEM教育研究学者的社区，并促进研究成果更快地转化为新的研究和实践。研究人员建议1)与现有的数据存储库和数据提供者进行协调，以帮助研究人员定位和利用现有的数据收集；2)确定并支持方法和实质性创新，包括改进非设计数据的获取和最佳实践，并将设计和非设计数据联系起来；3)培养研究透明和积累知识的文化；4)建立研究人员和数据提供者之间的社区；5)对STEM教育研究人员进行有针对性的外展。ICPSR和AERA将突出现有的数据源，以鼓励对现有数据的二次分析，并为研究人员建立一个单一的发现点。它们将通过共享元数据和采用增加数据集发现的实践来提高提供商数据的可发现性。此外，PEERS网站将提供其他关键数据集的描述，并提供访问数据的链接和说明。为了解决与多媒体和其他大数据相关的障碍，PEERS将保留并提供对这些资源创建的内容的访问，并鼓励研究将这些资源创建的内容自动化。为了支持STEM教育研究中的复制、再现和累积知识建设，PEERS将鼓励学者使用疗效和有效性研究注册表和其他机制，并使用ICPSR的自助出版档案基础设施OpenICPSR建立一个数据和日期相关产品的存储库，用于与STEM教育研究相关的复制研究和进一步分析。PEERS将创建和共享透明度指南，以补充AERA出版物中关于实证社会科学研究报告的标准。该项目由EHR核心研究（ECR）资助：建设STEM教育研究能力竞赛，旨在建立开展高质量STEM教育研究的能力，以增强国家STEM教育事业。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan and the American Education Research Association (AERA) propose to create an ECR Data Resource Hub, Partnership for Expanding Education Research in STEM (PEERS). The goal is to connect, educate, and build community around relevant forms of data and offer professional development focused on data skills, tools, and resources. PEERS will connect researchers to repositories and data sources as well as to materials on data sharing and learning tools for analyzing data to foster research transparency and reproducibility. PEERS will engage with producers or custodians of novel data, including administrative, video capture, streaming, and other non-designed data. PEERS also will engage data scientists in developing new approaches for discovering, accessing, and analyzing such designed and non-designed data to support their use for STEM education research, and it will work with librarians who are expert in the use of new technologies to catalogue and create user-friendly finding aids. PEERS will enhance research to advance new knowledge and address issues related to policy and practice in STEM education and learning. It will broaden and diversify the community of STEM education research scholars and facilitate a faster translation of research results into new research and practice.The investigators propose to 1) coordinate with existing data repositories and data providers to help researchers locate and leverage existing data collections; 2) identify and support methodological and substantive innovations, including improving access to and best practices in using non-designed data and linking designed and non-designed data; 3) foster a culture of research transparency and cumulative knowledge; 4) build community among researchers and data providers; and 5) conduct targeted outreach to STEM education researchers. ICPSR and AERA will highlight extant data sources to encourage secondary analysis of existing data and build a single point of discovery for researchers. They will increase the discoverability of providers’ data through sharing of metadata and adoption of practices that increase dataset discovery. In addition, the PEERS website will provide descriptions of other key datasets with links and instructions for accessing the data. To address the barriers associated with multimedia and other big data, PEERS will preserve and provide access to content created from these resources and encourage research to automate content created from these resources. To support replication, reproducibility, and cumulative knowledge building in STEM education research, PEERS will encourage scholars to use the Registry of Efficacy and Effectiveness Studies and other mechanisms and set up a repository of data and date-related products for replication studies and further analyses related to STEM education research using ICPSR’s self-publishing archive infrastructure, OpenICPSR. PEERS will create and share guidelines for transparency that supplement the AERA’s Standards for Reporting on Empirical Social Science Research in AERA publications. This project is funded through the EHR Core Research (ECR): Building Capacity in STEM Education Research competition that is designed to build capacity to carry out high quality STEM education research that will enhance the nation’s STEM education enterprise.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.