Events

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 PAA Annual Meetings, including this workshop, were cancelled.

This half day workshop introduced participants to practical strategies for publication-ready and independently understandable research materials for reproducibility. The workshop was based on the data quality review, a framework for helping ensure that research data are usable, that code executes properly and reproduces analytic results, and that all digital scholarly objects are well documented. The workshop introduced models for putting this framework into practice developed by the co-founders of the Curating for Reproducibility (CURE) consortium composed of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale University, the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) at Cornell University, and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 PAA Annual Meetings, including this workshop, were cancelled.

This workshop was organized bySam Harper, a 2019-20 TIER Fellow. The objective was to provide participants with an overview of the rationale for why funders, investigators, students, and practitioners of social science research should aim to make their research transparent. Participants left the workshop with a strong grasp of why adopting transparent and reproducible research practices is important, and with some hands-on experience with the tools to do so.

Participants at this retreat worked in a collegial and supportive atmosphere to write original soup-to-nuts exercises for use in their own classes, and to share with others by contributing them to an open access archive of curricular resources.

This workshop introduced participants to the TIER Protocol for replicable empirical research and other tools for research transparency. It was designed for faculty members and librarians interested in teaching students at their own institutions to adopt transparent and reproducible methods in the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, class papers, and exercises.

TIER Director Richard Ball gave this talk in the Advances in Higher Education Research seminar series, hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Washington.

TIER Directors Richard Ball and Norm Medeiros gave a presentation and workshop on TIER principles and practices as part of Open Access Week.

TIER Director Richard Ball was a guest speaker at this workshop, which initiated a process aimed at developing a suite of research training activities for promoting rigor, reproducibility, and transparency (RRT) in science.

2019-20 TIER Faculty Fellow Megan Becker chaired a session on "Dealing with the Replication Crisis," at which she presented a paper titled Replicating the Resource Curse: Ross (2004) and Qualitative Replication (co-authored with Jonathan Markowitz).

The outgoing 2018-19 TIER Fellows and the incoming 2019-20 cohort gathered to discuss strategies for implementing transparent teaching methods at their home institutions, and to promote such work to colleagues in the greater academic community.

TIER Director Richard Ball presented a poster on Project TIER's resources and programs.