What is the future of TESS?

TESS has been developed to help make social science more effective and efficient. Therefore, the future of TESS depends on your success.

You can help TESS succeed in many ways.

• First and foremost, you and your colleagues can send innovative proposals that will advance science and benefit society.
• You can tell research-oriented faculty and graduate students about the opportunities we provide.
• You can agree to serve as a referee for TESS proposals.
• When we seek new Associate PI's, you can help by agreeing to serve for a two-year term.

In the future, we will also ask others to help us evaluate TESS. Some of the criteria for success are listed below. To the extent that you can incorporate TESS efforts into your research, teaching, or practice, TESS can make a stronger argument for providing even more opportunities in the future.

EVALUATION CRITERIA:
In each year of the project we will carry out a thorough evaluation of the project's effectiveness at generating experiments that are important to science and society. The criteria in our assessment focus primarily on TESS's performance in facilitating social scientific progress. Criteria include:

• Awareness of TESS opportunities among the social science community of potential users.
• The number of proposals that are processed, and the diversity of disciplines and fields represented in submitted and accepted proposals
• The speed with which proposals are processed and potential users notified
• The length of time between acceptance of a proposal and when data are delivered to users
• The amount of data distributed to users
• The number of conference papers presented using TESS data
• The number of hits on ExperimentCentral.org
• The amount of time spent on ExperimentCentral.org
• Articles about or other attention paid to TESS
• The number of publications based on TESS experiments
• Cites to articles using TESS
• The composition of the Associate PI group relative to proposal demand.
• Analysis of user feedback surveys.