The Challenges of Metadata Management in Computer-Based Surveys and Assessments

In the first part the current situation of data curation in the educational and social sciences will be analysed in form of a literature review. To get a clearer picture of the as needs of data producers (i.e. researchers who conduct surveys or cogniti ve tests) as well data users (i.e. researchers who perform secondary analyses of datasets from research data centres or data archives) a survey on data management was conducted from November 2014 to December 2014. The second chapter of the dissertation will show how the instrument was constructed and discuss the data collection process. In the third chapter the results from the data management survey will be analysed with different statistical methods. Lastly the results will be used in the fourth chapte r to draw conclusions for the futu re of data management. In the last step i t will also be possible to draw requirements for software development out of this process as the author is heavily involved in software design. reason the dissertation will For this close with some example objects to demonstrate how certain processes of educational assessment can be put into software code. A longterm goal of the research on data management in educational assessment should be to generate a generic model to facilitate necessary processes into one toolchain.