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

该项目将向质量管理培训师展示如何鼓励许多学科领域的社会科学本科生（UGs）明智而适当地参与、使用和重复使用数字证据。该项目组建了一个国际设计专家团队，与英国七所主要大学的大量UG社会科学方法培训师合作。他们将一起准备模板课程材料，将研究设计与定量数据收集和分析方法联系起来，并将这些模板用于他们自己的学科领域。通过这种方式，通过为当前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，目前在英国研究人员的发展中相当被忽视，将有许多直接和长期的好处。由于设计在很大程度上独立于特定的数据收集方法，因此它不鼓励ug之间的分裂思维。它鼓励在为新研究收集数据时进行真正的预测和深谋远虑。它鼓励对已经收集的数据正确选择分析方法。最重要的是，它有希望简化分析，以至于本科生可能甚至没有意识到他们实际上是在使用“定量”方法。申请人和他们的专家团队和主持人是国际知名的方法专家，他们专门从事质量管理设计，以及专业认可和称赞的成人教育工作者。这种综合的专业知识，加上质量管理培训师在本科教学中的密切参与，将填补英国社会科学质量管理教学的主要空白。国际专家将准备广泛的资源和材料，展示设计如何自然而轻松地支撑QM教学，面向所有社会科学领域的本科生。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建立一个从入门到中级再到高级培训的过程，以提高质量管理教师在各个层次上嵌入设计的技能。这将使本科水平甚至更高水平的教学发生阶梯式变化。提高研究方法培训人员技能的工作方案包括编写适合所有相关领域的支持和课程材料，持续合作开发材料和方法，以及在全英范围内提供强化诊所。这些教材将在七所参与的高等教育院校的社会科学UG教学中进行实践试验，并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牵头。它将与卡迪夫大学、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，并将涉及美国西北大学的专家。

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.