College and Beyond II (CBII) Enrollment and Awards Data, [United States], 1958-2022 (ICPSR 38595)
Ithaka S+R Instructor Survey, United States, 2024 (ICPSR 39221)
High School Exclusionary Discipline Data in Pennsylvania (SY 2016/2017) (ICPSR 196441)
Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey, United States, 2021 (ICPSR 38593)
Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey, United States, 2018 (ICPSR 37866)
Scientific Data Reuse Survey, United States, 2015 (ICPSR 37071)
Content Analysis of Undergraduate Psychology Textbooks (ICPSR 36966)
Psychology is one of the most popular undergraduate majors in American universities, despite the fact that the discipline still has many unsettled questions regarding fundamental philosophical and methodological issues. These issues may be associated with a lack of clarity regarding an accurate conception of science and the nature of the relationship between psychology and science with respect to these controversies. Kuhn (1967) has suggested that scientific paradigms are transmitted in textbooks.
To understand how the scientific status of psychology is depicted, 30 undergraduate textbooks were examined. Textbooks were examined on the following categories:
- What constitutes science is controversial
- Bad (Pseudo) science
- Second demarcation problem
- Deductive stance
- Inductive stance
- Verisimilitude/tentativeness of science
- Theory ladenness of facts
- The role of theory in hypothesis formation
- The role of competing theories (i.e. Laudan)
- Social constructionism (vs. natural kinds)
- Rhetorical views of science
- Science and biases (e.g., political influences)
- The role of ad hoc hypotheses
- Evolutionary epistemology
- Recognition of conceptual problems (i.e. is it important for science to address conceptual problems or only empirical ones?)
- Kuhnian paradigms
- Mature vs pre-paradigm sciences
- Strict method vs "anything goes" (i.e. Feyerabend).
Introductory, cognitive, social, and abnormal textbooks were examined.
Ithaka S+R | Jisc | RLUK UK Survey of Academics 2015 (ICPSR 36557)
Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015 (ICPSR 36586)
Ithaka S+R, Jisc, RLUK UK Survey of Academics 2012 (ICPSR 34807)
Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), 1968: Fall Enrollment (ICPSR 2056)
Institutional Data Archive on American Higher Education, 1970-2011 (ICPSR 34874)
American College Catalog Study Database, 1975-2011 (ICPSR 34851)
The American College Catalog Study Database (CCS) contains academic data on 286 four-year colleges and universities in the United States. CCS is one of two databases produced by the Colleges and Universities 2000 project based at the University of California-Riverside. The CCS database comprises a sampled subset of institutions from the related Institutional Data Archive (IDA) on American Higher Education (ICPSR 34874). Coding for CCS was based on college catalogs obtained from College Source, Inc. The data are organized in a panel design, with measurements taken at five-year intervals: academic years 1975-76, 1980-81, 1985-86, 1990-91, 1995-96, 2000-01, 2005-06, and 2010-11. The database is based on information reported in each institution's college catalog, and includes data regarding changes in major academic units (schools and colleges), departments, interdisciplinary programs, and general education requirements. For schools and departments, changes in structure were coded, including new units, name changes, splits in units, units moved to new schools, reconstituted units, consolidated units, departments reduced to program status, and eliminated units.