Supporting Data Use in Undergraduate Student Research: From Teaching Basic Data Literacy to Incorporating Data Documentation into Empirical Research Projects

Effectively managing data is an increasingly important part of the researcher\u27s responsibilities and an important skill that undergraduate students need to possess as they move through their academic career. As part of our ongoing information literacy efforts, librarians at Macalester College have developed strategies to support research data use in the classroom and in individual student research projects. In this session, we will highlight a series of online modules created to introduce undergraduate students to best practices for managing research data and will discuss a partnership with faculty, based on Haverford\u27s TIER Protocol, for documenting data use in empirical research to ensure transparent and reproducible research results. We will also share plans for assessing these efforts