The Research Design Basis for Undergraduate Quantitative Methods (QM) Teaching

这个项目将向质量管理培训者展示如何鼓励社会科学本科生在许多学科领域明智和适当地接触、使用和重新使用数字证据。该项目组建了一支国际设计专家团队，与英国七所主要大学的大量UG社会科学方法培训师合作。他们将共同准备将研究设计与定量数据收集和分析方法联系起来的模板课程材料，并调整这些模板以用于各自的学科领域。这样，通过为现有和未来的提供者提供培训，研究设计可以嵌入到本科生定量方法的教学中。在一项研究开始时重新强调设计，目前在英国的研究人员开发中被忽视了，这将有许多直接和长期的好处。它不鼓励UGS之间的分裂思维，因为设计在很大程度上独立于具体的数据收集方法。它鼓励在为新的研究收集数据时进行真实的预测和前瞻性思考。它鼓励对已经收集的数据选择正确的分析方法。最重要的是，它有望简化分析，以至于本科生甚至可能意识不到他们实际上是在用“定量”的方法工作。申请者和他们的专家团队和东道主都是国际知名的方法专家，专门从事质量管理设计，以及专业认可和赞扬的成人教育工作者。这些专业知识，再加上本科生教学质量管理培训师的密切参与，将填补英国社会科学质量管理教学的一个重大空白。国际专家将准备广泛的资源和材料，展示设计如何自然和轻松地支撑质量管理的教学，社会科学的所有领域的本科生都可以接触到设计。虽然重点将放在本科教学上，但我们将在我们的活动计划中加入从入门到中级和高级培训的过程，以提高QM教师在所有级别嵌入设计的技能。这将使本科生甚至更高层次的教学发生阶段性变化。提高研究方法培训者技能的工作方案包括创建针对所有相关领域量身定做的支持和课程材料，持续协作开发材料和方法，并在全英国范围内提供密集诊所。这些材料将在七所参与其中的高等院校中用于社会科学普遍语法教学的实践中进行试验，最好在项目结束时得到更广泛的推广。该项目由伯明翰大学社会科学学院领导。它将与加的夫大学、莱斯特大学、曼彻斯特大学、诺丁汉大学、华威大学和约克大学合作交付，美国西北大学的专家将参与其中。

This project will show QM trainers how to encourage social science undergraduates (UGs) in many subject areas to engage with, use and re-use numeric evidence both wisely and appropriately. The project has assembled a team of international design experts to work with a large number of UG social science methods trainers in seven major UK universities. Together they will all prepare template course materials that link research designs to methods of quantitative data collection and analysis, and adapt these templates for use in their own subject areas. In this way, research design can be embedded in the teaching of undergraduate quantitative methods, through provision of training for current and future providers. The renewed emphasis on design at the outset of a study, currently rather neglected in UK researcher development, will have a number of immediate and longer-term benefits. It discourages schismic thinking among UGs since designs are largely independent of specific methods of data collection. It encourages true prediction and forethought in collecting data for new studies. It encourages the correct choice of methods of analysis for data that have already been collected. Above all, it holds the promise of simplifying analysis to such an extent that undergraduates may not even be aware that they are, in fact, working with 'quantitative' methods. The applicants and their team of experts and hosts are internationally-renowned methods experts who specialise in QM design, as well as being professionally-recognised and lauded adult educators. This combined expertise, together with the close engagement of trainers in QM in undergraduate teaching, will fill a major gap in UK social science QM teaching. International experts will prepare a wide range of resources and materials to show how design naturally and easily underpins the teaching of QM, accessible to undergraduates across all areas of social science. Although the focus will be on undergraduate teaching, we will build into our programme of events a progression from introductory through intermediate and to advanced training in order to up-skill QM teachers in the embedding of design at all levels. This will enable a step-change in teaching at undergraduate level and even beyond. The work programme of up-skilling of research methods trainers includes the creation of support and curricular materials tailored to all relevant areas, sustained collaborative development of materials and approaches, and delivery of intensive clinics UK-wide. THe materials will be trialled in practice in social science UG teaching among the seven HEIs involved, and ideally more widely by the end of the project. The project is led by the College of Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham. It will be delivered in co-operation with the Universities of Cardiff, Leicester, Manchester, Nottingham, Warwick and York, and will involve experts from US Northwestern University.