... their results. Not so much interested in writing up results of research at many institutions, but thinking it would be interesting for libraries to do more open notebook research. This was the approach apparently with the Rochester ethnographic study. Any other projects like that out there? - barbara fister

Closest I can think of are when rsch instruments are shared online, e.g. Purdue's Data Curation Profiles. But that's not the same as multi-site investigations, obviously. The trouble you're likely to run into if you want to publish is that journals will say "how can you know everybody adhered to the same protocol?" But hell, I'd be on the side of chancing it anyway. - RepoRat

I have (grad student) minions I can train to administer the instrument(s)... *interested* - awd

We'll probably just write up our results from two institutions - but it seemed that having a place where other people could also share theirs would be interesting. And a bigger picture could emerge by comparing notes. (IRBs can be a headache for multi-institutional research, too.) - barbara fister

Aaron, that sounds cool. I think my local co-investigator who does all the data stuff is worried that she will have too much data to clean up. Maybe we could do a bigger study together. Hmmm. - barbara fister

What we have sketched out so far are surveys for undergrads and faculty and a script for student interviews. Kind of in rough draft at the moment, but we are members of the adhocracy so that's generally how we do things. - barbara fister

[That Purdue site is cool. Thanks for pointing it out.] - barbara fister

I <3 DCPs. Best teaching tool ever. Tho as an actual interview script, it's kind of crap (which I tell my students before they try to use it verbatim). - RepoRat

See, now that IRB statement rubs wrong... assuming my local IRB approves this (and, really, this is one of those topics which should be an automatic pass (if not an automatic exception)) and your local IRB approves yours... how do either IRB have any say over the instrument use on another campus? [eta: and the use and commingling of said data] - awd

I'm really only relying on hearsay - Andrea Lunsford repeated a multi-institution study in 2006 (I think) that had first been done in the mid-1980s, and because of problems getting through IRBs, they had a far smaller data set to use. They were collecting student written work, which would seem to not involve much risk to subjects. - barbara fister

.... so a lot of her resulting article was "it's harder to do research now and that sucks!" - barbara fister