Session Information
12 SES 06 A JS, Joint Symposium - From Log Data to Research Data: Quality, Documentation, Reuse, and Protection in Large-Scale Educational Studies - NW 09, NW 12 and NW 27
Joint Symposium Session
Contribution
Data sharing is increasingly recognised as essential for transparency, reproducibility, and reuse in the social sciences (Heers, 2023). National repositories play a key role in supporting researchers to share high-quality, FAIR data while providing professional curation, controlled access, and documentation (Late & Ochsner, 2024). SWISSUbase, Switzerland’s main social science data repository, exemplifies such infrastructure, enabling researchers across disciplines to deposit and disseminate datasets. This contribution zooms in on educational research within SWISSUbase. Using repository metadata, we profile datasets originating from education studies, including data types, institutional affiliations, and linguistic regions. These patterns are compared with publicly available information on education research outputs funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, revealing areas where educational research is underrepresented or absent from the repository. The analysis will highlight structural and cultural barriers that may limit data sharing in education research and relate to those found in previous research (van der Zee & Reich, 2018). The discipline lags somewhat behind others in sharing and depositing data (Logan, Hart, & Schatschneider). We discuss strategies to better engage education researchers, including tailored support, guidance on ethical and practical aspects of data sharing, and incentives to deposit. By highlighting these gaps and possible interventions, the contribution aims to foster debate on how repositories can support a more comprehensive, FAIR-aligned education research data landscape.
References
Heers, M. (2023). Data sharing in the Social Sciences. FORS Guides, 21, Version 1.1, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.24449/FG-2023-00021 Late, E. & Ochsner, M. (2024). Re-use of research data in the social sciences. Use and users of digital data archive. PLoS ONE 19(5): e0303190. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303190 Logan, J. A. R., Hart, S. A., & Schatschneider, C. (2021). Data Sharing in Education Science. AERA Open, 7, 23328584211006475. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584211006475 van der Zee, T., & Reich, J. (2018). Open Education Science. AERA Open, 4(3), 2332858418787466. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858418787466
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