New ICPSR Webinar!



An Orientation to Accessing to the Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database (MET LDB)

Join us for a Webinar on September 24 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/958383026 MET LDB is ready for analysis!  Join us for the first in a series of four webinars discussing the rich and complex quantitative and video data held within the Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database at ICPSR, available now for secondary analysis.  This first webinar will offer an overview of the groundbreaking MET Project, a summary of the data files available at ICPSR, and a description of ICPSR's specialized data access systems.    More on the MET LDB can be found here: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/METLDB  Dates of future MET LDB webinars will be announced soon.  This webinar is free and open to the public.  Please forward this invitation to all with interest. Title: An Orientation to Accessing to the Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database (MET LDB) Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

SETUPS 2012 is now available!

From ICPSR:

ICPSR today announced that the Voting Behavior: 2012 Election Web site is ready for use. It is a new SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science) module that provides students the ability to analyze an accessible dataset drawn from the 2012 American National Election Study (ANES) survey of the American electorate. (The ANES is funded by the National Science Foundation.)

Charles Prysby, professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Carmine Scavo, associate professor of political science at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., developed the new module to give students the opportunity to analyze data from the most recent presidential election.

Access to the Voting Behavior: 2012 Election module is open to the general public. Membership in APSA or ICPSR is not required.

Using the SETUPS Voting Behavior: 2012 Election module:

• Instructors easily can integrate the SETUPS exercises into the curriculum.
• Students can analyze data from the ANES surveys without need for other statistical software.
• Users can learn key issues in the campaigns and reasons why voters choose a candidate.
• Students can gain understanding of key concepts related to research methods and data analysis.

The American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) have collaborated to develop and distribute the SETUPS instructional modules for four decades. For users interested in historical perspectives, the 2004 and 2008 Voting Behavior SETUPS remain available on the ICPSR Web site.

For questions email ICPSR Instructional Resources at lhoelter @ umich.edu or call 734-615-5653.

Replicability of Student Research

Professors at Haverford College have created a protocol for training students in effective data management best practices. They are also hosting a workshop on teaching students best practices in social science classes.

More information is available from their website, Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research and their call for participation for the upcoming workshop.

You can also view their webinar and slides.

Finding Historical Economic Data through FRASER and ALFRED

The North Carolina Library Association's Government Resources Section had an excellent webinar yesterday on finding historical (or vintage) economic data using FRASER and ALFRED.

The recording is available in addition to the slides below.

Pew Hispanic Center National Surveys of Latinos available in Roper Center

Check out these new additions to UNCG's Roper Center subscription. Use the library link to download!

2009 and 2010 Pew Hispanic Center National Surveys of Latinos Available!

Datasets for the 2009 and 2010 National Surveys of Latinos conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center have been archived and are now available for download.

Pew Hispanic Center 2009 National Survey of Latinos focused primarily on Latino youth, including questions regarding educational experiences, identity, discrimination, social values, teen sexual activity, parental relationships, crime, and media and technology use. While Latinos ages 16-25 were oversampled, Latinos ages 26 and older were also interviewed in regards to almost all of the survey topics, as well.

Pew Hispanic Center 2010 National Survey of Latinos focused on politics and the 2010 midterm elections, Hispanic leadership, attitudes regarding immigration and enforcement, discrimination, and technology and media use.

New ICPSR Webinar: Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research

Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research

Join us for a Webinar on August 28 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/967760842 This webinar will present a protocol for documenting data management and analysis that has been developed specifically for use by students writing empirical research papers in the social sciences.    The guiding principle behind the protocol is replicability: The documentation should be complete and transparent enough to allow an interested third party to easily and exactly reproduce all the steps of data management and analysis that led from the original data files to the results reported in the paper. We will describe what the protocol entails, and as an example we will show the documentation that an economics major assembled for his senior thesis last year.  We will also discuss a one and one-half day workshop we will be offering in October, aimed at instructors who are interested in teaching this research documentation protocol to their students.    This webinar will be presented by Richard Ball, Associate Professor of Economics, Haverford College, and Norm Medeiros, Associate Librarian, Haverford College.  For more information, see www.haverford.edu/TIER  The webinar is free and open to all interested.  Please feel free to forward this invitation. Title: Teaching Students to Document Empirical Research Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Congressional stats at your fingertips!

Fun news from APDU!

 

Census has announced the release of a new My Congressional District Web application powered by the 2011 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates and Census Application Programming Interface (API).  This interactive tool provides the latest demographic and economic statistics for every district of the 113th Congress, including age, race, veteran status, employment, housing, education, income, and much more.  Learn more here.