Are you looking for a partner on a project that will be collecting data?
Here at the International Data Evaluation Center (IDEC), we love data. We specialize in creating data systems that support large-scale human subjects research.
Our main mission is to process data for Reading Recovery (RR), and last year we collected data on over 67,000 students, teachers and schools from across the United States.
Between the months of May and August 2014, our customized reporting system produced over 5,200 standardized reports for RR stakeholders. IDEC has also been supporting the $56 million i3 scale-up grant that RR received just over four years ago. This included modifying our website to support a national-scale multiyear randomized control trial, working with external evaluators and supporting RR teacher leaders with the data entry process.
But IDEC is not all computer code, databases and technology-related acronyms. We also provide onsite and online seminars to RR teacher leaders, teaching them how to use the data we provide. This includes our “The IDEC Data Dump – The Beginners How-To Guide” and “How to Make Charts Using the IDEC Data Dump” seminars.
To learn more about IDEC’s services, visit our website at idecweb.us.
Contact Jeff Brymer-Bashore, Director of IT and Ops at brymer-bashore.1@osu.edu and let us help you collect data so you can focus on research.
This article first appeared in the Fall 2015 issue of In Review, the EHE Office of Research Newsletter.
