Removing barriers to better data practices through Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation

Music City Center 

Transparent, trustworthy research depends on sharing data and code and having results verified by others, yet education tends to focus on best practices or knowledge-deficit models that are often insufficient for behavior change. We adopt the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation for Behavior change (COM-B) model using levers in the Behavior Change Wheel to create educational materials to improve data practices as a behavior change problem in a collaboration among Arkansas Children's Research Institute, UAMS's Institute for Digital Health & Innovation, and Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington's Biostatistics Consulting Center. Module 1 covers capabilities, opportunities, and motivations for data and code sharing and verification, acknowledging investigator barriers (e.g., being scooped, attacks, and lack of time, know-how, and resources). Module 2 provides background on capabilities and opportunities to share to enhance reproducibility, while Module 3 covers processes and practices for sharing and verification. Self-paced materials were created using the Rise Articulate platform and are Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and Section 508 compliant.

Education

Reproducibility

Data sharing

Verification

Behavior change 

Section on Statistics and Data Science Education