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Re-designing NIE’s research project data use and management: Building research resources, enhancing research ethics and improving research practices
Citation
Silver, R. E., Kwek, D., & Kogut, G. (2024). Re-designing NIE’s research project data use and management: Building research resources, enhancing research ethics and improving research practices (Report No. DEV 01/14 RS). National Institute of Education (Singapore), Office of Education Research. https://doi.org/10.32658/10497/27388
Abstract
It is a truism of educational research that almost all data are seriously under-analysed; unless data collection is tightly designed to test a specific hypothesis, the original researcher wil explore only a fraction of its potential (Corti, 2000). To attempt to extend the utility of research data, an increasing number of researchers and research institutes are encouraging the archiving and sharing of research data (Backhouse, 2002; Corti, 2000; Corti et al., 1995; UK Data Archive, 2013; Parry & Mauthner, 2004; Qualidata, 2013; SIDOS, 2013; Thompson, 2003). Subsequently, data are now increasingly available to local and international research communities (Ryssevik & Musgrave, 2001) fuelled by the need to collaborate and share resources enabled by technological advances. In the USA, UK and Europe, secondary analysis data archives (SADAs) are increasingly becoming a reality with researchers encouraged to locate, access and analyse data from archives worldwide, utilising a range of documentation initiatives, software systems and tools. In Singapore, the International Research Review Panel has recommended in November 2015 that the Office of Education Research (OER) consider developing a data management strategy to facilitate data exploitation beyond project lifespans. What seems clear is that data sharing and data reuse is becoming a global research priority.
Date Issued
2024
Publisher
Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Series
OER Final Report
Project
DEV 01/14 RS
Grant ID
Education Research Funding Programme (ERFP)
Funding Agency
Ministry of Education, Singapore