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NERCOMP EVENT
Supporting Data Analysis Across the Curriculum
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In this SIG we will explore tools for accessing data and techniques to support data fluency. In addition, to address an increasing demand for qualitative analysis, we will investigate tools and techniques that support survey research. There will be ample opportunity to share experiences of success and struggle in supporting data analysis. Software demonstrations will include the use of SPSS analytical tools.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Michael Krikonis of Clark University
Date/Time:
Monday, April 28, 2008
9:00am - 3:00pm
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
Sheraton Harborside Portsmouth Hotel
250 Market Street
Portsmouth, NH
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NERCOMP Members: $101
Non-Members: $226
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Event Schedule:
8:00am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee
9:00am – 9:45am Supporting Data Fluency in the Social Sciences
Speaker: Manolis Kaparakis, Director, Quantitative Analysis Center, Wesleyan University
A discussion of the findings of a NITLE sponsored study. Through focus groups and surveys the study documents current practices, common problems, and wish lists of faculty and students whose work involve data analysis. It also discusses emerging solutions and issues faced by librarians and instructional technologists who support quantitative work.
9:45am – 9:50am Break
9:50am – 10:55am How I See ICPSR
Speaker: Rachael Barlow, Social Sciences Data Coordinator, Trinity College
The Inter-consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the one of the most well-respected data archives for the social sciences. In the past, the archive was known primarily for making datasets accessible to sophisticated users and less for providing resources that facilitate teaching about and with data. The goal of this session is to reveal how the ICPSR website has recently become more exploitable for this latter group of users: instructors who want to develop their students’ quantitative skills. The theme of this session is twofold: part of ICPSR’s new exploitability comes from the organization’s own initiative to offer more teaching resources, but it also comes from the possibility of taking creative advantage of the website’s regular features.
10:55am – 11:00am Break
11.00am - 12:00pm Qualitative Choice Models with SPSS
Speaker: Manolis Kaparakis, Director, Quantitative Analysis Center, Wesleyan University
An exploration of a class of models with categorical depended variables. We will consider data issues, underlying distributional assumptions, demonstrate estimation using SPSS and discuss the results with and without interaction terms.
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 2:00pm Research Design in Qualitative Research Software: Getting the Most out of Non-Numerical Data Analysis Software
Speaker: Judith Davidson, Ph.D., Associate Professor Graduate School of Education University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Qualitative Data Analysis Software (QDAS) has been around for a few decades, but only now is it beginning to be widely used by qualitative researchers in the social science field. As use expands it has become clear that a more comprehensive approach to research design in qualitative research software would be necessary if qualitative researchers were to make the most of these important tools for non-numerical data analysis.
At this meeting, I will be presenting a new approach to research design in qualitative research software. This approach was developed through my work with Silvana DiGregorio (founder of SDG Associates and an international consultant in the field of QDAS use) and is described in our forthcoming book: Qualitative Research Design for Software Users (Open University Press, 2008).
This presentation will provide you with a brief introduction to the notion of qualitative research and some history about the development of QDAS and the new issues it raises for the field of qualitative research. Then I will offer a new set of principles for thinking about QDAS that are grounded in the notion of the Electronic Project or E-Project. I will demonstrate how these principles work through sharing a case study example from a recent dissertation. This case will provide you with hands-on understanding of how to represent qualitative research design in one QDAS package using principles that can be applied to any of the many packages that are now in existence. In conclusion, I will look at the institutional issues that must be considered in order to make best use of QDAS on a college campus. I will share some of the lessons learned by the cross-campus Qualitative Research Network on the University of Massachusetts-Lowell campus, which has been working for several years to “scale up” the use of QDAS.
I look forward to engaging in dialogue with participants and hearing about their experiences with QDAS or their concerns about implementing its use on their campuses.
2:00pm – 2:05pm Break
2:05pm – 3:05pm SPSS Demonstration Text Analysis For Surveys
Speaker: James Parry, Solutions Engineer for Higher Education, SPSS Inc.
Most good surveys include open-ended questions. Open-ended questions allow survey researchers to tap into unmentioned themes that the survey creators may not have thought of in the first place. They also allow researchers to capture what respondents think, believe, or know about a subject area in their own words. Without open-ended responses you run "the danger of creating your own reality". Typically categorizing open-ended survey responses is time-consuming, tedious, and expensive. For these reasons, many analysts simply do not analyze text responses; however, those who do often complain of being overwhelmed by thousands of text responses that they could not possibly analyze them in a reasonable time-frame. SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys was designed specifically to address these shortcomings in the analysis of survey text responses. SPSS Text Analysis for Surveys is used by survey researchers to transform open-ended survey responses into quantitative data very quickly and more reliably than manual methods.
3:05pm End
Speaker:
James Parry
James Parry began his career with SPSS in 2001 as a Trainer in the Education Department. Prior to SPSS, James worked extensively with data management, survey and sampling design and statistical analysis within academic, clinical and private settings. Currently as a dedicated Solutions Engineer for Higher Education, he specializes in SPSS solutions for the student lifecycle, including solutions for improving enrollment, retention, student success, and advancement outcomes. He is always available to give technical advice to and connect people within the academic community. James holds a bachelor's degree from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire and a master’s degree from Loyola College in Maryland.
Speaker:
Judy Davidson
Judy Davidson is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell where she teaches qualitative research methodology at the graduate level. She has been working with qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) since 1998, when she was first introduced to NUD*IST software while engaged in a multi-year study of networked technology integration in K-12 schools. Since coming to UMass-Lowell in 1999, she has worked to embed qualitative research software into the range of courses she teaches, as well as supporting use of qualitative research software in the doctoral dissertation process. Facilitator for the UMass-Lowell, cross-campus Qualitative Research Network, she has strong experience in issues related to implementing QDAS use in institutional settings. She is a primary facilitator of the first-ever Day in Technology in Qualitative Research for the Fourth International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry (May 2008). Her most recent work—Qualitative Research Design for Software Users (diGregorio & Davidson)—will be published in Fall 2008 (Open University Press. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, M.S. from Bank Street College of Education, and B.A. from Antioch University.
Speaker:
Manolis Kaparakis
Manolis Kaparakis did his undergraduate work in Athens Greece and his graduate work in Economics at the University of Connecticut. He is currently the Director of the newly established Quantitative analysis Center at Wesleyan University, where he is also serving as the Academic Computing Manager for the Social Sciences. Previously he was a member of the economics faculty at Providence College where he taught economics for twelve years, coordinated the development of the “Quantitative Economics” major and served as the College's “Faculty Liaison for Information Technology."
Speaker:
Rachael Barlow
Rachael Barlow is the Social Science Data Coordinator at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she teaches data-related topics across the college curriculum and serves as the Official Representative for ICPSR. She is also completing her doctorate in Sociology at Indiana University in Bloomington. In her dissertation, she examines how librarians and library buildings co-construct librarian professional identities.
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Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@nercomp.org
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Sheration Harborside Portsmouth Hotel, the conference location, for $139 per night.
To make reservations contact the Sheraton at 603-431-2300 and request the "NERCOMP Room Block". The room block will be released on March 28th
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