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教育研究的伙伴关系(Peers)。目标是围绕相关形式的数据连接、教育和建立社区，并提供专注于数据技能、工具和资源的专业发展。同行将把研究人员与储存库和数据源以及关于数据共享的材料和用于分析数据的学习工具联系起来，以促进研究的透明度和再现性。同行将与新数据的制作者或保管人接洽，包括管理、视频捕获、流和其他非设计数据。Peers还将让数据科学家开发新的方法来发现、访问和分析这种设计和非设计的数据，以支持它们用于STEM教育研究，并将与擅长使用新技术的图书馆员合作，对用户友好的查找辅助工具进行编目和创建。同行将加强研究，以促进新的知识，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，并促进更快地将研究成果转化为新的研究和实践。调查人员建议1)与现有的数据储存库和数据提供商进行协调，以帮助研究人员定位和利用现有的数据收集；2)确定和支持方法和实质性的创新，包括改进使用非设计数据的机会和最佳做法，并将设计数据和非设计数据联系起来；3)培养研究透明度和累积知识的文化；4)在研究人员和数据提供商之间建立社区；以及5)有针对性地向STEM教育研究人员进行外联。ICPSR和AERA将突出现有的数据源，以鼓励对现有数据进行二次分析，并为研究人员建立单一的发现点。他们将通过共享元数据和采用增加数据集发现的做法来增加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说明，并提供访问这些数据的链接和说明。为了解决与多媒体和其他大数据相关的障碍，同行将保留并提供对这些资源创建的内容的访问，并鼓励研究自动创建基于这些资源的内容。为了支持STEM教育研究中的复制、再现性和累积知识建设，同行将鼓励学者使用功效和有效性研究登记处和其他机制，并利用ICPSR的自助出版档案基础设施OpenICPSR为复制研究和与STEM教育研究相关的进一步分析建立一个数据和日期相关产品的储存库。同行们将创建和分享透明度指南，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：STEM教育研究竞赛中的能力建设，旨在建设开展高质量STEM教育研究的能力，以促进国家STEM教育事业的发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.