Past events
Faculty Fellows Conference
The outgoing 2015-16 TIER Fellows and the incoming 2016-17 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.
AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education
Project TIER organized a paper session titled “Teaching Transparent and Replicable Methods of Empirical Research.” Speakers included TIER Faculty Fellows Tomas Dvorak and Michael O’Hara, Smith College economics faculty member Simon Halliday, Franklin and Marshall economics faculty member Stephen Nicar, and TIER co-director Richard Ball.
Graduate Student Workshop
Project TIER co-director Richard Ball gave a day-long workshop for doctoral students in education and allied fields on efficient workflows for conducting and documenting reproducible empirical research.
Graduate Student Workshop
Project TIER co-director Richard Ball and TIER Faculty Fellow Ben Baumer gave a day-long workshop for doctoral students in economics on efficient workflows for conducting and documenting reproducible empirical research.
Graduate Student Workshop
Project TIER co-director Richard Ball and TIER Faculty Fellow Nathan Wright gave a presentation titled “Transparency and Reproducibility in Empirical Research: Principles and Practices,” for sociology graduate students writing second-year papers.
TIER Faculty Development Workshop
This workshop introduced participants to the TIER protocol for replicable empirical research. It are intended for faculty members interested in teaching their own students to follow this protocol to document the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, or papers written for classes.
Eastern Sociological Society
At a session on Issues in Education and in the Teaching Profession, TIER Faculty Fellow Nathan Wright presented a paper titled "Using Project TIER Protocols for Teaching Reproducibility of Research in Quantitative Methods Courses."
Graduate Student Workshop
Project TIER co-director Richard Ball and TIER Faculty Fellow Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel gave a day-long workshop on efficient workflows for conducting and documenting reproducible empirical research.
Institute for New Economic Thinking/Young Scholars Initiative
Richard Ball delivered a mini-course titled “Integrity in Empirical Research.”
More information is available at the workshop website.
American Economic Association
Richard Ball gave a talk titled " 'Beyond the PDF' in Empirical Economic Research" at a session on "Replication in Economics.
A preliminary program for the complete conference is available at https://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2016conference/program/preliminary.php.
TIER Faculty Development Workshop
These workshops introduced participants to the TIER protocol for replicable empirical research. They are intended for faculty members interested in teaching their own students to follow this protocol to document the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, or papers written for classes.
New York State Economic Association
Michael O'Hara, Assistant Professor of Economics at Colgate University and a 2015-16 TIER Faculty Fellow, will present a paper titled "Reproducibility as a pedagogical strategy."
Faculty Fellows Conference
The 2015-2016 TIER Faculty Fellows 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.
1st Annual Dataverse Community Meeting
Richard Ball and Norm Medeiros gave a presentation on their use of Dataverse within the TIER protocol.
American Economic Association
A paper by Richard Ball and Norm Medeiros titled "Replicability of Empirical Research: Classroom Instruction and Professional Practice" will be presented at a session on "Promoting New Norms for Transparency and Integrity in Economic Research."
Social Science Research Center
Richard Ball gave a workshop on the protocol to research faculty.
BITSS Summer Institute: Transparency Practices for Empirical Social Science Research
Richard Ball and Norm Medeiros gave a talk entitled "A Student-Oriented Protocol for Research Documentation and Replicability."
Poster presentation
Charlotte Flynn presented a poster on methods for evaluating the effectiveness of research data services, using Project TIER as a case study. Charlotte is a doctoral student in Information Science and Technology at Syracuse University. She attended the TIER workshop held at Haverford College in October 2013.
Workshop on teaching good practices in documenting data management and analysis
Project TIER hosted a two-day workshop aimed at instructors of statistical methods courses in any of the social sciences. Attendees learned how to assemble documentation for a variety of projects, starting with a very simple case and then addressing a variety of challenges that commonly arise. Broader conceptual and pedagogical issues related to documentation and replicability of empirical research were discussed. Tools to assist in data management were demonstrated.
NSF-sponsored workshop on Robust Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
Richard Ball was a panelist at a session on "Education and Training."