University of Michigan (University of Michigan, School of Information)

The University of Michigan’s School of Information will examine the reuse of qualitative data for teacher education and research. The focus is the Teaching & Learning Exploratory (TLE), a qualitative data archive of classroom “records of practice” that includes videos of classroom teaching, recordings of content area interviews with students, and work samples from students and teachers. The project will inform qualitative data reuse and curators of qualitative data, an understudied area in data reuse; and it will examine qualitative data reuse in education and how it can be best utilized to improve educational outcomes. The project supports the development of engaging experiences and supports the educational community of practice by helping its members reuse educational research data to improve teaching and activate learning, particularly in the K-12 STEM environment.