Module overview
Duration 
Approximately 40 minutes
Student partnership 
This module was developed with UQ student partners as part of a Student-Staff Partnership project.
Graduate attributes
Knowledge and skills you can gain from this module will contribute to your Graduate attributes:
Influential communicators
This module is part of Digital Essentials, a series of online modules to help you quickly build your digital skills so you can succeed in study and work.
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Aims and objectives
This module is to help you conduct transparent and reproducible quantitative research for your project. UQ supports research data that is F.A.I.R– Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. Document what you have done to produce your results to make it possible to repeat it, in exactly the same way. The module is derived from the Tier Protocol by Project Tier Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research.
This module will:
- explain how to document research data
- explain data organisation
- outline a workflow for your research project.
After completing this module, you will be able to:
- organise your documentation folders
- write a Readme file to show the changes you make to your data files
- use a process to ensure research data replication and transparency.
Module sections
- Process
- Pre-data
- Original data and metadata
- Data processing
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Wrap-up
- Check your knowledge
- Conclusion
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