Past events
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.