Past events
ExLibris Bluegrass Users Group Annual Meeting
Project TIER Director Norm Medeiros gave a keynote talk entitled, "Promoting Open Science Throughout the Research Lifecycle: The Integrative Role of Libraries," which highlighted the ways in which academic librarians can promote open science activities in support of faculty and student research.
AEA CTREE session on teaching empirical research
Simon Halliday (2016-17 TIER Fellow) organized a session titled "Efficient Empiricism: Streamlining Teaching, Research and Learning in Empirical Courses." In addition to Simon, presentations were given by Tomas Dvorak (2015-16 TIER Fellow), Michael O'Hara (2015-16 TIER Fellow), and Aaron Swoboda (2016-17 TIER Fellow).
Faculty Development Workshop--Spring 2017
This full-day workshop introduced participants to the TIER protocol for replicable empirical research. It was intended for faculty members interested in teaching their own students to follow this protocol to document the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, or papers written for classes.
The Gold Standard of Reproducible Research
An interdisciplinary conference and workshop on the causes of and remedies for reproducibility problems in social science research. TIER Director Richard Ball led a session and participated in a panel discussion.
Faculty Development Workshop
This full-day workshop introduced participants to the TIER protocol for replicable empirical research. It was intended for faculty members interested in teaching their own students to follow this protocol to document the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, or papers written for classes.
TIER Faculty Development Workshop
This workshop introduced participants to the TIER protocol for replicable empirical research. It was attended by faculty members interested in teaching their own students to follow this protocol to document the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, or papers written for classes.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Richard Ball gave a talk titled "Project TIER: Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research."
Graduate Student Workshop
Project TIER co-director Richard Ball gave a workshop for doctoral students affiliated with the Institute of Behavioral Sciences on efficient workflows for conducting and documenting reproducible empirical research.
American Sociological Association
TIER Faculty Fellow Nathan Wright led an Informal Discussion Roundtable on "Promoting Best Practices for Reproducibility and Replication in the Teaching and Practice of Research Methodologies."
American Statistical Association
2015-16 TIER Faculty Fellows Ben Baumer (Smith College) and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel (Duke University) organized an Invited Session titled Reproducibility in Statistics and Data Science, at which Mine presented a paper on "Integrating reproducibility into the undergraduate statistics curriculum."
Dataverse Community Meeting
TIER co-director Richard Ball gave a talk on using on-line document management platforms to teach transparent and reproducible research methods.
Faculty Fellows Conference
The outgoing 2015-16 TIER Fellows and the incoming 2016-17 cohort gathered to discuss strategies for implementing transparent teaching methods at their home institutions, and to promote such work to colleagues in the greater academic community.
AEA Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education
Project TIER organized a paper session titled “Teaching Transparent and Replicable Methods of Empirical Research.” Speakers included TIER Faculty Fellows Tomas Dvorak and Michael O’Hara, Smith College economics faculty member Simon Halliday, Franklin and Marshall economics faculty member Stephen Nicar, and TIER co-director Richard Ball.
Graduate Student Workshop
Project TIER co-director Richard Ball gave a day-long workshop for doctoral students in education and allied fields on efficient workflows for conducting and documenting reproducible empirical research.
Graduate Student Workshop
Project TIER co-director Richard Ball and TIER Faculty Fellow Ben Baumer gave a day-long workshop for doctoral students in economics on efficient workflows for conducting and documenting reproducible empirical research.
Graduate Student Workshop
Project TIER co-director Richard Ball and TIER Faculty Fellow Nathan Wright gave a presentation titled “Transparency and Reproducibility in Empirical Research: Principles and Practices,” for sociology graduate students writing second-year papers.
TIER Faculty Development Workshop
This workshop introduced participants to the TIER protocol for replicable empirical research. It are intended for faculty members interested in teaching their own students to follow this protocol to document the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, or papers written for classes.
Eastern Sociological Society
At a session on Issues in Education and in the Teaching Profession, TIER Faculty Fellow Nathan Wright presented a paper titled "Using Project TIER Protocols for Teaching Reproducibility of Research in Quantitative Methods Courses."
Graduate Student Workshop
Project TIER co-director Richard Ball and TIER Faculty Fellow Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel gave a day-long workshop on efficient workflows for conducting and documenting reproducible empirical research.
Institute for New Economic Thinking/Young Scholars Initiative
Richard Ball delivered a mini-course titled “Integrity in Empirical Research.”
More information is available at the workshop website.