SBIR Phase II: Archive of Exemplary Behavioral Science Research Instruments

这项小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将在互联网和光盘上建立模范行为科学研究工具（BSRI）档案。还将印制一份《行为科学研究仪器档案指南》。BSRI档案将包含大约200个典型的人口统计、行为和健康科学工具的可搜索、可编辑和可打印的机器可读版本——问卷调查、医疗表格、访谈协议——用于收集社会计量学数据档案中的定量研究数据，并记录包含社会计量学计划档案的有前途的社会干预计划的有效性。每一个将为BSRI提供研究和评估工具的主题数据和项目档案都是“最好的”集合，由国家科学顾问小组根据科学价值、实质性效用和政策相关性的标准精心挑选，这些专家是该主题档案的专家。构成BSRI工具的量表和项目的规范将以量表均值和标准差、项目频率或反应分布以及与年龄、种族/民族和性别的项目交叉表的形式包含在档案中，这些表格从Sociometrics的关联数据档案中获得。如果第二阶段的概念细化探索取得成功，BSRI还将包含一个相应数据文件的链接，该文件将允许研究人员从BSRI的变量列表、原始仪器和/或项目统计数据中选择完整记录的SPSS或SAS分析提取文件中的变量。这个新功能应该对研究人员有很大的帮助，因为它可以让他/她在选择项目进行分析之前看到项目的完整背景。BSRI的仪器搜索、编辑和打印功能——以及它在打印、CD-ROM和Internet格式方面的发展——使BSRI成为数千个机构目标市场的自然产品，服务于数十万个人用户。BSI的目标市场包括：(1)学术市场，包括5000多个社会科学部门，160,000多名从事BSI所涵盖的主题领域的社会和健康科学教授和研究人员，3000多个高校主要图书馆和100多个大学医学图书馆；(2)政策制定和商业市场，如200+会员协会。的公众资料使用者，以及(3)一般资讯资源市场，例如九千多间公共图书馆。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will establish the Archive of Exemplary Behavioral Science Research Instruments (BSRI) on the Internet and on CD-ROM. A printed Guide to the Behavioral Science Research Instrument Archive will also be produced. The BSRI Archive will contain searchable, edit-ready, and print-ready machine-readable versions of approximately 200 exemplary demographic, behavioral, and health science instruments-questionnaires, medical forms, interview protocols--used to collect the quantitative research data in the Sociometrics Data Archives and to document the effectiveness of the promising social intervention programs comprising the Sociometrics Program Archives. Each of the topically-focused data and program archives that will contribute research and evaluation instruments to BSRI is a "best-of-the-lot" collection, carefully chosen using criteria of scientific merit, substantive utility, and policy relevance by a National Advisory Panel of scientists who are experts in that topical focus of the archives. Norms for the scales and items comprising the BSRI instruments will be included in the archive in the form of scale means and standard deviations, item frequencies or response distributions, and item cross-tabulations with age, race/ethnicity, and gender, obtained from the linked data archives at Sociometrics. If Phase II concept refinement explorations are successful, BSRI will also contain a link to the corresponding data file that will allow a researcher to select variables for a fully documented SPSS or SAS analysis extract file from BSRI's variable listing, original instrument, and/or item statistics. This new feature should be of enormous help to the researcher, as it will allow him/her to see the complete context of the item prior to selecting it for analysis. BSRI's instrument search, edit, and print capabilities-along with its development in print, CD-ROM, and Internet formats-make BSRI a natural product for several thousand institutional target markets serving several hundred thousand individual users. Among BSI's target markets are: (1) academic markets, including 5,000+ social science departments, 160,000+ social and health science professors and researchers working in the topical areas covered by BSRI, 3,000+ main libraries at colleges and universities, and 100+ medical libraries in universities; (2) policymaking and business markets, such as the 200+ member Assoc. of Public Data Users, and (3) general information resource markets, such as 9,000+ public libraries.