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措施侧重于广泛的遵守，并作为年度一次性培训提出，而不是以研究人员的实际经验为基础。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有力的实践，以记录和分享他们的发现和进展。这项工作包括两个阶段。研究阶段的重点是在一个单一的大学网站的数据管理的通信干预的因果关系的影响。开发阶段将利用研究结果和团队在创建负责任的研究材料方面的经验，开发工具包，并向研究人员广泛传播。早期的一个项目表明，基于证据的沟通方法（审议性实验室对话）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。在整个研究阶段，该小组将调整循证交流办法，纳入数据管理做法，评估其在具体情况下的功效，并通过开发和传播一个易于使用的实用工具包，支持采用该办法。该方法的有效性将通过评估实验室数据管理计划的质量及其内部沟通来测试，在干预前后通过前/中/后调查进行。参与实验室将是联邦政府资助的STEM和生物医学研究实验室在一个校园。利用本次调查的信息，该项目将开发引人入胜的相关视频和书面案例研究材料，以帮助实验室创建适合其研究人员，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提供的介绍性和即时实用资源，以支持采用和持续的实验室使用，使通信方法和数据管理实践更广泛地提供。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识产权进行评估来支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.