June 6-7, 2013
College Park, MD
A wealth of publicly-available national and international data exists for use by researchers in education and other social science disciplines. Of particular interest for this workshop at the University of Maryland are the data supplied by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) although the topics presented in this workshop generalize to other large-scale data collection. Applied researchers currently can download data to their desktop and immediately begin to use data to answer research questions regarding such things as family and school level predictors of child knowledge, growth in children's knowledge or changes in behaviors over time, characteristics of teachers and schools, and aspects of parents and family dynamics. The availability of these data is quite remarkable but can be intimidating. The goal of this workshop is to allow those researchers who are new to using national and international data to become more comfortable with accessing and appropriately analyzing the data. Click here for more information.

Summer Institutes in Statistics
June 3-21, 2013
Lawrence, KS 

The 2013 Kansas University Summer Stats Camp will run from June 3 to 21, 2013, in Lawrence, KS. We are featuring several of our very well regarded courses, Structural Equation Modeling, Longitudinal Analysis, Hierarchical Modeling, and Item Response Theory, along with several new offerings in the use of R and the analysis of missing data. Registration ends soon! Click here for more information.

Science of Team Science Workshops
National Research Council's Committee on the Science of Team Science is pleased to announce dates for two workshops to explore research on critical topics in the science of team science. Both workshops will be held in Washington, DC, and will be live webcast.
-July 1, 2013 Workshop on Individual and Team Factors: This workshop will explore the large body of research on team dynamics and management of research teams that has important implications for the effectiveness of collaboration within large and small scientific teams. The workshop will consider the research literature related to these topics, including the research focusing specifically on science teams and the research on teams in other types of organizational settings. It will address the following questions:
* How do individual factors (e.g., openness to divergent ideas), influence team dynamics (e.g., cohesion), and how, in turn, do both individual factors and team dynamics influence the effectiveness and productivity of science teams? Much research has focused on this level-what problems remain? Has the existing knowledge been disseminated or implemented, and are there unanswered questions? What do we know about how to assemble individual characteristics for optimal team?
* What factors at the team, center, or institute level (e.g., team size, team membership, geographic dispersion) influence the effectiveness of science teams?
* How do different management approaches and leadership styles influence the effectiveness of science teams?
-October 24, 2013 Workshop on Institutional and Organizational Factors: This workshop will build on the first workshop to consider how institutional structures and policies affect team science. It will explore research related to the following questions:
* How do current tenure and promotion policies acknowledge and provide incentives to academic researchers who engage in team science?
* What factors influence the productivity and effectiveness of research organizations that conduct and support team science, such as research centers and institutes? How do such organizational factors as human resource policies and practices and cyberinfrastructure affect team and science?
* What types of organizational structures, policies, practices and resources are needed to promote effective team science, in academic institutions, research centers, industry, and other settings?
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