International Collaborations in Behavioral and Social Sciences Report of a Workshop (2008) / Chapter Skim
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1 The Benefits of International Collaborations
1 The Benefits of International Collaborations
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Miller referred to a study regarding research teams that were homogeneous in cultural background, discipline, and training in comparison to other research teams that were heterogeneous. While the homogeneous teams generally had more harmonious discussions, they generated fewer discoveries. The heterogeneous teams, by contrast, were far more contentious.
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elaborated on several conceptual gains of collaborating across international and other boundaries in conducting research. Bornstein's straightforward rationale for this work was "description." Three different cultural limitations constrain understanding of contemporary developmental science: (1)
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Many topics benefit from larger datasets, especially those exploring cross-cultural differences or how cultural contexts condition the ways in which variables relate to each other. Devising culturally appropriate interventions for a range of diseases requires cross-cultural collaborations.
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International collaborators in research, for example, may provide essential language skills or specific analytical expertise. They may also offer crucial familiarity with a local population or access to populations that are in some way distinctive, such as indigenous groups, immigrant communities, or populations undergoing political transition or other substantial changes that present a kind of natural experiment.
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In the intervening years the IEA has developed a solid research infrastructure of technical committees and documented research and data-sharing procedures to support international collaborations in educational research based at their Amsterdam headquarters and their Data Processing Center in Hamburg. Psychologists have coordinated IEA studies in areas ranging from a video study of mathematics classrooms to a survey of civic, political, and social attitudes.
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All workshop participants confirmed that parachuting into a foreign research setting does not. Without local collaborators, neither conceptualization of the research questions to be addressed in locally appropriate research designs nor the logistical tasks can be handled adequately.
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And for all their obstacles (discussed below) , international collaborations certainly surpass the alternative of "hit-and-run research," or limiting one's perspective to one's own "well" -- in both the quality of their immediate outcomes and the contributions they can make to the behavioral and social sciences.
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