Minnesota Linking Information for Kids: Creating Capacity for Data Intensive Research

来自明尼苏达大学的该项目的pi正在扩大开展数据密集型跨学科研究的能力，以便在包括教育、儿童福利、卫生、精神卫生和少年司法在内的多个数据系统中增进对儿童福祉的认识和理解。该项目正在将六个额外的数据集整合到当前的明尼苏达州儿童信息链接（Minn-LInK）跨系统数据项目中。该项目正在建立一个由来自不同学科的研究人员组成的社区，以扩大数据链接，开发有效利用集成数据的基础设施，并组织一个跨学科的通信网络。该项目为研究人员提供了一套更全面的数据，扩展了新数据和现有数据的代码本，并开发了现成的数据集和有效利用的工具。一个培训研究生和发展未来研究人员的奖学金项目协调了大学教师和国家机构工作人员的努力。民联研究员的建设有可能使大学融入国家、区域和地方机构的工作。研究生的合作培训经验将成为研究员项目的一部分，将教师的研究和学科知识与各机构的经验、对数据集的理解以及对国家面临的政策和实际问题的了解结合在一起。该提案中的协作社区从幼儿教育的角度出发，而不是从K-12或高等教育的角度出发。该项目开发的研究基础设施扩大了整个明尼苏达州研究人员的能力，以便更好地利用纵向集成数据，更全面地了解STEM学生成绩对教育中多个可塑因素的影响。

The PIs of this project from the University of Minnesota are expanding the capacity for conducting data-intensive interdisciplinary research to advance knowledge and understanding of child well-being across multiple data systems including education, child welfare, health, mental health and juvenile justice. The project is integrating six additional datasets into the current Minnesota Linking information for Kids (Minn-LInK) cross-system data project. The project is building a community of researchers from diverse disciplinary communities to expand data linkage, develop infrastructure for efficient utilization of integrated data, and organize an interdisciplinary communication network. The project makes a more comprehensive set of data available to researchers, expands codebooks for new and existing data, and develops ready-to-use datasets and tools for efficient utilization. A Fellowship program to train graduate students and develop future researchers coordinates the efforts of university faculty and state agency staff.The construction of the Minn-LInK Fellows has the potential to integrate the university into the work of the state, regional and local agencies. The collaborative training experiences for the graduate students who will be a part of the Fellows program brings together the research and disciplinary knowledge of the faculty with the agencies' experiences, understanding of the datasets, and knowledge of the policy and practical issues that are faced by the state. The collaborative community in this proposal starts from the perspective of early childhood education rather than from a K-12 or postsecondary perspective. The research infrastructure that is developed by this project expands the capacity of researchers throughout the state of Minnesota to better use the longitudinal integrated data to more fully understand the influence of student performances in STEM on multiple malleable factors in education.