Classroom Exercises
ICPSR provides access to nearly 100 modules specifically designed for classroom use. These modules
illustrate a variety of social science concepts, and are generally smaller subsets of more complex/robust
datasets used in research. These include the Data-Driven Learning Guides of the
Online Learning Center 
, plus many more resources. Faculty,
students, or staff at ICPSR member schools are free to use these materials in
the classroom, to modify them to fit their own pedagogic goals, or to use them as templates to create
their own modules.
Please note this searches a pool of ~100 studies, so you may get no results if your search term is fairly narrow.
Resources for Teaching Undergraduates
Instructional Web Sites
Exploring Data Through Research Literature
Investigating Community and Social Capital
Voting Behavior in the 2008 Election
Webinars and Tutorials
ICPSR conducts online webinars about using data in social science research. The recorded webinars and the accompanying PowerPoint presentations can be viewed or downloaded at the Data User Help Center.
These topics and more are currently available:
- Finding what you want on the ICPSR Web site
- Analyzing ICPSR data online
- Creating setup files for SPSS
- Debugging SAS, SPSS, and Stata code
- Using ICPSR data to teach deviance and other social science concepts
- Enhancing analysis of racially and ethnically underrepresented populations in the U.S.
The ICPSR Data Use Tutorial is a concise guide to finding, downloading, and importing data into statistical analysis software.
Undergraduate Research Paper Competitions
These competitions provide awards for papers based on analysis of ICPSR data.
Summer Undergraduate Internship Program
ICPSR's summer internship program provides students with thorough grounding in the tools and best practices of data science and digital assets management. Interns gain experience with the major statistical analysis programs, and are involved in the work of preparing data for archiving and dissemination. They attend courses in the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, and also participate in a lunch and lecture series that exposes them to the different aspects of ICPSR.
The internship program is excellent preparation for advanced studies and careers in data science and social science research.
- Flyer (PDF 450K)
