Description: The Grid-Enabled Measures (GEM) website enables research collaborattion, encourages the use of common measures, and facilitates the sharing of harmonized data.
Group-Evaluated Measures (GEM) is a National Cancer Institute (NCI) database for researchers with information about and potential access to behavioral, social science, and other scientific measures organized by associated constructs. GEM supports doing science more efficiently through the reuse of existing measures, contributes to a shared knowledge base, and increases consistency and inter-operability among shared datasets.
NCI conceptualized the GEM database with two overarching aims for behavioral research:
GEM allows users to search for constructs (e.g., anxiety, depression), see definitions, and download associated measures where available. It also allows users to search for measures and see attributes of those measures where available (e.g., definition, target population, author, reliability, validity).