Past events
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."
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.