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S3 Modeling Matter Elementary Science Task
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In this four-year project called Developing Preservice Elementary Teachers' Ability to Facilitate Goal-Oriented Discussions in Science and Mathematics via the Use of Simulated Classroom Interactions (GO Discuss), Educational Testing Service and Mursion developed, piloted, and validated a set of performance-based tasks delivered within a simulated classroom environment in order to improve preservice elementary teachers’ ability to orchestrate discussions. These tasks provided opportunities for preservice teachers in science and mathematics to facilitate discussions with five upper elementary student avatars (fifth grade) where the focus is on disciplinary argumentation within two content domains: fractions (mathematics) and structure/properties of matter (science). The overall goal of this research was to develop a validity basis for the use of such tools as formative assessment tasks that can be integrated within educator preparation programs to increase the amount, variety, and quality of clinical practice opportunities currently available to preservice elementary teachers.
For this project, we developed eight performance-based tasks, four in mathematics and four in science, designed to be used by pre-service elementary teachers as they practice leading classroom discussions in the simulated classroom. Each task provides a scenario and specific details about the discussion, including the student learning goal, students’ background information, and what happened prior to the discussion. We also included the student work related to the mathematics problem or science investigation that was the focus within that task and a summary of important things that we wanted the pre-service elementary teachers to notice about the student work.
This specific data project includes materials for one elementary science task called Modeling Matter. In this task, students chose one of three imperfect visual models to represent what happens after a drop of red food coloring is dropped into a cup of water. The pre-service teacher leads a discussion with the students focused on the strengths and weaknesses of the models chosen by each group, and then helps them come to a consensus on a revised model that best describes this phenomenon. Materials for pre-service teachers, resources for teacher educators, including sample videos, and task-specific simulation specialist training materials are included.
For a complete description of the broader “Go Discuss” project, including a list of files for each task, as well as to read the detailed Terms of Use, please start by reading the Data Overview file. Some files appear in different formats with identical content. This is intentional. ETS wants to encourage adaptation of the deposited materials (which might be easier to implement in Word documents), but also wants to ensure that images and math notations are rendered correctly for secondary users (best preserved in PDF)
Optimizing Openness in Human Participants Research: Harmonizing Standards for Consent Agreements and Data Management Plans to Empower the Reuse of Sensitive Scientific Data
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The goal of the research project in which these data were created was to establish a baseline of understanding of the knowledge of and engagement on the topic of sharing of social, behavioral and educational research data, including sensitive data by institutional review board (IRB) professionals. We especially chose to hold these conversations in the period immediately after the revised federal Common Rule regulating human participant protections (https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/finalized-revisions-common-rule/index.html) came into force in early 2019.
Data Overview
The data project contains 17 individual interviews, summary notes from 2 focus groups and documentation (data narrative, recruitment email text, consent form, questionnaire, list of acronyms used by participants).</p
M1 Ordering Fractions Elementary Mathematics Task
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In this four-year project called Developing Preservice Elementary Teachers' Ability to Facilitate Goal-Oriented Discussions in Science and Mathematics via the Use of Simulated Classroom Interactions (GO Discuss), Educational Testing Service and Mursion developed, piloted, and validated a set of performance-based tasks delivered within a simulated classroom environment in order to improve preservice elementary teachers’ ability to orchestrate discussions. These tasks provided opportunities for preservice teachers in science and mathematics to facilitate discussions with five upper elementary student avatars (fifth grade) where the focus is on disciplinary argumentation within two content domains: fractions (mathematics) and structure/properties of matter (science). The overall goal of this research was to develop a validity basis for the use of such tools as formative assessment tasks that can be integrated within educator preparation programs to increase the amount, variety, and quality of clinical practice opportunities currently available to preservice elementary teachers.
For this project, we developed eight performance-based tasks, four in mathematics and four in science, designed to be used by pre-service elementary teachers as they practice leading classroom discussions in the simulated classroom. Each task provides a scenario and specific details about the discussion, including the student learning goal, students’ background information, and what happened prior to the discussion. We also included the student work related to the mathematics problem or science investigation that was the focus within that task and a summary of important things that we wanted the pre-service elementary teachers to notice about the student work.
This specific data project includes materials for one elementary mathematics task, called Ordering Fractions. In this task, the pre-service teacher leads a discussion on students’ responses to a problem asking them to order three fractions from least to greatest. Prior to this discussion, students worked in small groups to complete the problem, write an explanation for their answer, and consider whether their strategy could be applied more generally to other similar problems. The differences in the groups’ answers to the problem, strategies used, and claims about whether their strategies can be generalized form the basis for this discussion. Materials for pre-service teachers, resources for teacher educators, including sample videos, and task-specific simulation specialist training materials are included.
For a complete description of the broader “Go Discuss” project, including a list of files for each task, as well as to read the detailed Terms of Use, please start by reading the Data Overview file. Some files appear in different formats with identical content. This is intentional. ETS wants to encourage adaptation of the deposited materials (which might be easier to implement in Word documents), but also wants to ensure that images and math notations are rendered correctly for secondary users (best preserved in PDF)
S2 Conservation of Matter Elementary Science Task
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In this four-year project called Developing Preservice Elementary Teachers' Ability to Facilitate Goal-Oriented Discussions in Science and Mathematics via the Use of Simulated Classroom Interactions (GO Discuss), Educational Testing Service and Mursion developed, piloted, and validated a set of performance-based tasks delivered within a simulated classroom environment in order to improve preservice elementary teachers’ ability to orchestrate discussions. These tasks provided opportunities for preservice teachers in science and mathematics to facilitate discussions with five upper elementary student avatars (fifth grade) where the focus is on disciplinary argumentation within two content domains: fractions (mathematics) and structure/properties of matter (science). The overall goal of this research was to develop a validity basis for the use of such tools as formative assessment tasks that can be integrated within educator preparation programs to increase the amount, variety, and quality of clinical practice opportunities currently available to preservice elementary teachers.
For this project, we developed eight performance-based tasks, four in mathematics and four in science, designed to be used by pre-service elementary teachers as they practice leading classroom discussions in the simulated classroom. Each task provides a scenario and specific details about the discussion, including the student learning goal, students’ background information, and what happened prior to the discussion. We also included the student work related to the mathematics problem or science investigation that was the focus within that task and a summary of important things that we wanted the pre-service elementary teachers to notice about the student work.
This specific data project includes materials for one elementary science task called Conservation of Matter. In this task, students consider whether the amount of matter is conserved during a physical change. Prior to the discussion, students worked in small groups to make lemonade by combining water, lemon juice, and sugar and investigated whether the amount of matter changed after mixing the ingredients together. The pre-service teacher leads a group discussion focused on whether the amount of matter changed in the lemonade investigation, drawing on observations from previous investigations the class conducted to support or refute the students’ original claims. Materials for pre-service teachers, resources for teacher educators, including sample videos, and task-specific simulation specialist training materials are included.
For a complete description of the broader “Go Discuss” project, including a list of files for each task, as well as to read the detailed Terms of Use, please start by reading the Data Overview file. Some files appear in different formats with identical content. This is intentional. ETS wants to encourage adaptation of the deposited materials (which might be easier to implement in Word documents), but also wants to ensure that images and math notations are rendered correctly for secondary users (best preserved in PDF)
Data for: Drug Shortage Management: A Qualitative Assessment of a Collaborative Approach
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Drug shortages frequently and persistently affect healthcare institutions, posing formidable financial, logistical, and ethical challenges. Despite plentiful evidence characterizing the impact of drug shortages, there is a remarkable dearth of data describing current shortage management practices. Hospitals within the same state or region may not only take different approaches to shortages but may be unaware of shortages proximate facilities are facing. Our goal is to explore how hospitals in Michigan handle drug shortages to assess potential need for comprehensive drug shortage management resources. We conducted semi-structured interviews with diverse stakeholders throughout the state to describe experiences managing drug shortages, approaches to recent shortages, openness to inter-institutional engagement, ideas for a shared resource, and potential obstacles to implementation. To solicit additional feedback on ideas for a shared resource gathered from the interviews, we held focus groups with pharmacists, physicians, ethicists, and community representatives. Among participants representing a heterogeneous sample of institutions, three themes were consistent: (1) numerous drug shortage strategies occurring simultaneously; (2) inadequate resources and lead time to proactively manage shortages; and (3) interest in, but varied attitudes toward, a collaborative approach. These data provide insight to help develop and test a shared drug shortage management resource for enhancing fair allocation of scarce drugs. A shared resource may help institutions adopt accepted best practices and more efficiently access or share finite resources in times of shortage.
Data Overview
We conducted 16 semi-structured qualitative interviews with 25 participants and three focus groups with key stakeholders throughout the state of Michigan to explore institutional experiences with drug shortages, approaches to recent shortages, openness to ongoing inter-institutional engagement, ideas for a shared resource, and potential obstacles to implementation. To hear diverse experiences, and ensure any collaborative resource would be valued by most hospitals, we purposefully selected 10 heterogeneous hospitals based on the number of licensed hospital beds, type of hospital (academic, community, etc.), geographic location, critical access status, trauma designation, teaching status, religious affiliation, profit classification, and larger health-system affiliation
Data for: Attachment to and Detachment from Favorite Stores: An Affordance Theory Perspective
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Like homes, neighborhoods, and cities, retail locations offer significant opportunities for attachment far from domestic spheres. In commercial settings, consumers construct personal geographies, and find stable references for their lives. Our work advances previous consumer research by showing how these relationalities are situated, implicitly unstable and often impermanent. Individuals attach to commercial spaces in multiple ways, through both immediate and slow processes. We theorize that multiple affordances of spaces—whether sensual, symbolic, or cerebral—trigger meaningful ties, stimulate new affective and practice repertoires and may exert a transformative power in personal biographies. Bonds evolve in tandem with individuals’ life courses and are also impacted by events beyond consumers’ control, such as store closures. Whether disruptive or constructive, detachments can precipitate constructive change, allowing individuals to mobilize the emotional and cognitive resources at the base of their affective bond with treasured places, and redirect these assets more effectively. Forced and voluntary detachment from retail spaces are thus interpreted as integral and complementary components of attachment.
Data Generation
Data were collected by multiple ethnographic methods, including participant observation, phenomenological interviews, and in a few cases the combined application of projective techniques to facilitate the emergence of both symbolic meanings attributed to participants’ specific experiences and their immediate and embodied relationships with their treasured commercial places. Participants’ bonds with commercial places were investigated along functional, sensory, emotional, and symbolic dimensions. Data collection was carried out in two stages, in 2005 and from 2012 to 2013.
Data Overview
This data project encompasses 44 interview transcripts from the first round and 11 interview transcripts from the second round of data collection. Participants’ names have been changed to protect their identity
Data for: "What’s Wrong with Digital Stewardship: Evaluating the Organization of Digital Preservation Programs from Practitioners’ Perspectives"
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The National Digital Stewardship Alliance surveyed practitioners in 2012 and again in 2017 to gauge, among other things, how satisfied they were with their organizations’ digital preservation function. This study seeks to understand what causes the high and rising levels of dissatisfaction that practitioners reported. We interviewed 21 digital stewards and asked them to describe the organizational context in which they work; to reflect on what aspects of their organizations’ approach to digital preservation are working well and which are not; and to evaluate necessary areas of improvement. We identified experiences that were common among participants using a qualitative research methodology based on phenomenology. These conversations revealed that practitioners largely consider digital stewardship values and goals to be misunderstood at an organizational level, and demonstrated that the absence of a long-term vision for digital stewardship disempowers practitioners.</p
Data for: Culture in la clínica: Evaluating the utility of the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in a Mexican outpatient setting
No full textThis is an Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) data project. The annotated article can be viewed on the Publisher's website.
You will need to use the Chrome browser with the Hypothesis extension installed to view the ATI annotations
The annotations contain data to support the four main thematic claims made in the “Results” section of the published article, organized here in the order they appear in the article. Included are the Spanish transcriptions of qualitative interview extracts and my (KY) English translations of the transcriptions
Data for: The experience of orthorexia from the perspective of recovered orthorexics
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This qualitative study examined the subjective experiences of recovered orthorexics around the world. Orthorexia is a disorder whereby sufferers become obsessed with eating what they consider to be a biologically pure diet. Orthorexia is an emerging area of study, and many questions remain regarding its definition, diagnosis, and potential place in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This study therefore sought to look at issues surrounding orthorexia, such as body image, anxiety, obsessions, and the overall experience of the disorder. Data was analysed using a descriptive–interpretive method.
This data project contains documentation of the interview research and an aggregated table with code and selected interview excerpts. Interviews were conducted via Skype and recorded with Pamela for Skype.</p
Data for: 'A Directory of Cartographic Inventors' and 'Patents and Cartographic Inventions'
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Supplementary data relating to the biographies and patents illustrated from the two books: Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History and A Directory of Cartographic Inventors written by Mark Monmonier.
These two titles focus on the cartographic inventors and the devices and technologies they created to making maps easier to use. The Patents book focuses on the patent process between the Patent Office clerks and the inventor exploring the correspondence between them during the description and review process before issuing a patent number. It also explores the patent as a publishing process of both property rights and as a scholarly publication. The Directory has biographical sketches of the inventors organized by genres of invention type