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Streamlining Your Quantitative Methods Course

A free webinar for faculty and staff at HBCUs and other Minority Serving Institutions about how to increase efficiency by incorporating transparency and reproducibility in quantitative methods instruction. Offered several dates in January 2022.

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Welcome New Executive Committee Members

We are delighted to announce the newest members of the TIER Executive Committee: Megan Becker, Anne Nurse, Janelle Peifer, Aneta Piekut, and Matthew Platt. Their leadership will be invaluable to shaping the future of Project TIER.

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Announcing: Launch of New TIER Protocol Version 4.0

The 4.0 version of the TIER Protocol provides more advanced guidance on folder structure and working with relative paths to ensure a portable, automatic, and fully replicable project. With a streamlined presentation format, this version of the TIER protocol provides more information and is easier to follow than ever.

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TIER is changing the culture of research in the classroom

"Teaching project organization at the start of the course has made it easier for my students to troubleshoot errors, communicate results, and develop good habits for their future careers."

- Jenna Krall, 2017-18 TIER Fellow

TIER is changing the culture of research in the classroom

"This course taught me to make sure I'm always checking in my data analysis scripts as source code into a repository that can be repeated by anyone."

- Gabe Rybeck, Haverford College class of 2016

TIER is changing the culture of research in the classroom

"I require all my students to fully document their data sources and data manipulation... Investing in teaching documentation and coding has very high returns."

- Tomas Dvorak, 2015-16 TIER Fellow

TIER is changing the culture of research in the classroom

"The TIER program has helped me advocate for open science change in my institutional and professional environments."

- Chris Conway, 2019-20 TIER Fellow

TIER is changing the culture of research in the classroom

"All of my students have benefited greatly from having specific guidelines in order to make their research reproducible and transparent."

- David Vera, TIER Executive Committee

Symposium on Instruction in Reproducible Research

The 2021 TIER Spring Symposium was a ten-part virtual event exploring the educational purposes of teaching students transparent and reproducible methods of quantitative data analysis, featuring keynote presentations by Nicole Janz and Nick Horton.

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Join the TIER Network

The TIER Network is a forum for exchange of ideas among instructors, researchers, and data support specialists working to integrate transparency and reproducibility into the training of students in quantitative research methods.

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