Data Management and Stewardship
Data Management Plan
Every successful project begins with a plan. Use these resources to create the most efficient plan for your project.
Deposit and Share Your
Data
Sharing data is the leading-edge research practice. It promotes the research community's ability to understand and build on your valuable research contributions by preserving your data, keeping it secure, and making it available for reuse and redistribution.
- Have you collected STEM education-related data that you want to share?
- Were the findings of your AERA journal publication supported by data?
- Did federal funding support the data collection for your research? Consider depositing your education-related data here.
- NSF Proposal and Award Policies & Procedures Guides
- Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving
- Informed Consent Language and Assessing Disclosure Risk
- ICPSR 101: Youtube Videos
- NSF Frequently Asked Questions of Public Access
- IES Public Access Policy
- NSF Guidelines for Dissemination and Sharing Research Results
- IES Implementation Guide for Public Access to Research Data
- Data Deposit with ICPSR
Pre-register Your
Study
Pre-registering allows you to share and "publish" the intentions of your work before it is complete. It increases the visibility and transparency of your research design.
- "First analysis of 'pre-registered' studies shows sharp rise in null findings" by M. Warren
- Registry of Efficacy and Effectiveness Studies
- Checklist of Required Information for Registry Entry
- "More and more scientists are preregistering their studies. Should you?" by K. Kupferschmidt
- AsPredict, Wharton - University of Pennsylvania
- OpenScience Framework
- IES SEER Principle of Preregistration
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