Advanced Training Institute: NICHD-SECCYD

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目的总体目标是增加关于访问和使用大型数据库的知识和技能，作为研究过程的正常部分。这项申请的直接目标是为五个年度培训讲习班申请资金，培训研究人员获取、分析和使用儿童早期护理和青年发展研究（SECCYD）的数据集，这是一项关于儿童在家庭和家庭外环境中发展的纵向综合研究。在为期5天的研究期间，专家导师（研究调查员和统计分析师）将让精心挑选的参与者熟悉NICHD的研究数据。所涵盖的主题将包括研究的概念框架、方法设计、研究工具的文档、分析数据集和原始数据集中包含的大量变量的心理测量属性的文档。参与者将能够向导师咨询最适合他们分析的变量，以及最先进的分析方法。工作坊将包括课堂讲座、讨论和计算机实验室“动手”环节，参与者将在其中访问和使用数据集。讲习班的目标是使与会者能够独立地使用和培训其他人使用国家人口与发展中心的数据库进行原创学术研究和出版。高级培训学院（ATI）每年将培训大约20名研究人员。在该项目的5年时间里，大约100名研究人员将开发有关NICHD SECCYD数据库和其他数据库的专门知识。这些知识将在许多方面增加创建如此大规模数据库的投资回报：它将通过鼓励多学科方法来增加儿童发展领域的知识，它将鼓励大量详细的样本知识，它将鼓励以其他方式不可能进行的二次分析，它将扩展数据的用途，使更多的研究人员超越原来的研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The broad objective of this project is to increase knowledge about and skills in accessing and using large scale databases as a normal part of the research process. The immediate goal of this application is to request funding for five annual training workshops to train researchers to access, analyze and use the data sets of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), a longitudinal, comprehensive study of the development of children in the context of their family and in out of home environments. During the course of the 5-day Institute, expert instructors (study investigators and statistical analysts) will familiarize carefully selected participants with the NICHD study data. Topics covered will include the conceptual framework of the study, its methodological design, the documentation of research instruments, the documentation of the psychometric properties of a large subset of variables included in the analytical data sets and with the raw data sets. Participants will be able to consult with instructors about the most appropriate variables for their analyses, and about cutting-edge analytical methods. The workshops will include classroom lecture sessions, discussion sessions, and computer lab "hands on" sessions in which participants will access and use the data sets. The goal of the workshop is for participants to be able to independently use and train others to use the NICHD databases for original scholarship and publication. The Advanced Training Institute (ATI) will train about 20 researchers each year. Over the five years of the project, a cadre of about 100 researchers will develop expertise about the NICHD SECCYD databases and other databases. This knowledge will increase the return on investment in the creation of such large scale data bases in many ways: it will augment knowledge in the area of child development by encouraging multidisciplinary approaches, it will encourage large and detailed sample knowledge, it will encourage secondary analyses in ways that would not have been possible otherwise, and it will extend the utility of the data to a broad set of researchers beyond the original study investigators.