Collaborative Research: Creating and Sustaining Cultures of Best Practice: Supporting STEM Labs to Develop Tailored, Comprehensive Data Management Plans

大多数负责任的研究干预行为侧重于广泛的遵守，并作为年度一次性培训提出，而不是基于研究人员的实际经验。该项目旨在改善STEM学科的实验室数据收集、记录保存和数据管理实践，以整合对负责任研究行为的关注。该项目通过创建和传播有效的工具包来满足这些需求，以支持实验室创建和维护定制的强大实践，以记录和分享他们的发现和进展。这项工作包括两个阶段。一个研究阶段侧重于在单个大学站点集中数据管理的通信干预的因果效应。开发阶段将利用研究成果和该小组在编写负责任的研究行为材料方面的经验来开发工具包，以便向研究人员广泛传播。一个早期的项目表明，基于证据的沟通方法（慎重的实验室对话）改善了实验室处理作者身份和伦理问题的方式。该项目将工作扩展到数据管理实践。在研究阶段，该小组将调整基于证据的沟通方法，将其纳入数据管理实践，评估其在上下文中的有效性，并通过开发和传播易于使用的实用工具包来支持其采用。该方法的有效性将通过评估实验室数据管理计划的质量以及在干预前后通过前/中点/后调查进行的内部沟通来检验。参与的实验室将是联邦政府资助的STEM和生物医学研究实验室。利用此次调查所得的信息，该项目将开发引人入胜的相关视频和书面案例研究材料，以帮助实验室制定适合其研究人员、设备和方法的量身定制的数据管理计划。这将包括一系列公开可用的介绍性和即时实用资源，以支持采用和正在进行的实验室使用，从而使通信方法和数据管理实践更广泛地可用。本项目由改善本科STEM教育、研究生教育创新和伦理与责任研究项目共同资助。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 majority of responsible conduct of research interventions focus on broad compliance and are presented as an annual one-off training rather than being grounded in the actual experiences of researchers. This project aims to improve lab data collection, record-keeping, and data stewardship practices in STEM disciplines to integrate attention to responsible conduct of research. The project addresses these needs by creating and disseminating effective toolkits to support labs in creating and maintaining customized strong practices to document and share their discoveries and progress. This work includes two phases. A research phase focuses on the causal effects of a communication intervention focused on data management at a single university site. The development phase will draw on the research findings and the team's experience in creating responsible conduct of research materials to develop the toolkit to be disseminated widely to researchers.An earlier project demonstrated that the evidence-based communication approach (deliberative lab conversations) improved the way labs approach the issues of authorship and ethics. This project extends the work to data management practices. Through the research phase, the team will adapt the evidence-based communication approach to incorporate data management practices, assess its efficacy in context, and support its adoption by developing and disseminating an easy-to-use, practical toolkit. The efficacy of the approach will be tested by assessing the quality of labs’ data management plans, and their internal communication, before and after the intervention via pre/midpoint/post surveys. Participating labs will be federally funded STEM and biomedical research labs on a single campus. Using information from this investigation, the project will develop engaging, relevant video and written case study materials to help labs create tailored data management plans fitting their research personnel, equipment, and methods. This will include range of openly available introductory and just-in-time practical resources to support adoption and ongoing lab use to make the communication approach and data management practices more widely available.This project is jointly funded by the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education, Innovations in Graduate Education, and Ethical and Responsible Research Programs.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.