Past events
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."
Conference presentation, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting
Richard Ball and Norm Medeiros gave a talk entitled Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research: A Protocol for Documenting Data Management and Analysis. Their presentation described the protocol they developed for teaching students conducting empirical research to document their work in such a way that their results are completely reproducible and verifiable. The protocol prescribes the creation and organization of a set of data, command, and metadata files, and is guided by the principle that an independent researcher, using only the data and information contained in these files, should be able to replicate every step of the data management and analysis. They demonstrated how these files are described, preserved, and made accessible for replication by third-parties.
Conference presentation, Southern Political Science Association Conference
Richard Ball gave a talk entitled Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research: A Protocol for Documenting Data Management and Analysis.
Workshop on teaching good practices in documenting data management and analysis
Project TIER hosted 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.
Webinar on Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research, Hosted by ICPSR
In this webinar, Richard Ball and Norm Medeiros described the "soup to nuts" research documentation protocol they teach to their students, and presented an example of the documentation an economics major in the class of 2013 assembled for his senior thesis. They discussed the faculty workshop they hosted on October 18-19.
Lecture at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research
Richard Ball and Norm Medeiros gave a talk titled "Teaching Good Research Practice: Documentation and Replicability."
Conference presentation on teaching undergraduates to document empirical research, Stata Conference 2013
Richard Ball gave a talk titled Teaching Students to Make Their Empirical Research Replicable: A Protocol for Documenting Data Management and Analysis.
Hands-on workshop on teaching good practices in documenting data management and analysis
This day-long workshop is aimed at instructors of statistical methods courses in any of the social sciences. Faculty from Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore Colleges, as well as from other colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area, took part. We demonstrated 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. We allowed time for discussion of broader conceptual and pedagogical issues related to documentation and replicability of empirical research.