Collaborative Research: Leveraging Matched Administrative Datasets to Improve Educational Practice and Long Run Life Outcomes: Toward Building a National Interdisciplinary Network

这项提议旨在建立一个全国性的研究人员社区，利用大规模的纵向教育数据库，这些数据库链接了从幼儿到大学、工作场所和其他社会数据集的各种数据。这项研究合作包括来自西北大学和杜克大学的首批教育研究、教育政策、人类学、经济学、心理学和社会科学的学者。这些研究人员正在积极地从全国各地招募研究人员和教育利益攸关方，他们正在使用不同的教育和其他数据集，以提高将联邦政府资助的扩展数据存储库中的数据链接在一起的能力。研究人员正在确定数据使用的最佳做法，并开发其使用的原型。从佛罗里达州和北卡罗来纳州的纵向数据集开始，研究人员正在开发如何结合这些数据的原型，以回答到目前为止无法解决的紧迫的教育和社会科学问题。这些原型是在参与国家社区的多个机构之间合作开发的，西北大学和杜克大学是该项目的概念中心。这些原型为两次国家级会议提供了信息，学者和实践者在会上分享研究结果，并刺激其他州此类研究的发展。教育和社会科学中大规模纵向数据的扩展导致了对新方法的需求，这些数据通常保持在各个州机构的孤岛中。通过开发这些数据集应该如何联系的原型，这项研究和开发正在扩大数据可以提供信息的问题的性质。这些问题包括在科学、技术、工程和数学教育中一直存在问题的重要政策和实践问题。

This proposal intends to develop a national community of researchers that utilizes large scale, longitudinal educational databases that are linked across the spectrum of early childhood to college, workplace and other social sets of data. The research collaborative includes an initial group of scholars in education research, education policy, anthropology, economics, psychology and social sciences from Northwestern and Duke University. These researchers are actively recruiting researchers and educational stakeholders from across the country, who are working with different educational and other data sets to improve capacity to link data together in the expanded data repositories that have been funded by the federal government.The researchers are identifying best practices in the use of data and develop prototypes of their use. Starting from the Florida and North Carolina longitudinal data sets, the researchers are developing prototypes of how these data can be combined to answer pressing educational and social science questions that have heretofore been unable to be addressed. These prototypes are being developed collaboratively across the multiple institutions who are participating in the national community, with Northwestern and Duke serving as the conceptual hubs of the project. The prototypes inform the two national level meetings at which scholars and practitioners to share findings and stimulate the development of such research in other states.The expansion of large scale longitudinal data in education and social sciences has resulted in a demand for new ways to link together data that has typically remained in silos across various state agencies. By developing prototypes of how these data sets should be linked, this research and development is expanding the nature of the questions that the data can inform. These questions include important policy and practice concerns that have been problematic in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.