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Joseph Chiarelli; Melissa A. St. Hilaire; Brandi L. Baldock; Jimmy Franco; Stephen Theberge; Anthony L. Fernandez – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
There is a growing need for chemistry students to be able to handle and manipulate large datasets and analyze them in an efficient and accessible way. This creates the need to develop course materials that introduce these topics early in the undergraduate curriculum. To address this growing need, this activity introduced RStudio to students…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Students
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Paul T. von Hippel – Education Next, 2024
In a 1984 essay, Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist at the University of Chicago, asserted that tutoring offered "the best learning conditions we can devise" and that tutors could raise student achievement by two full standard deviations--or, in statistical parlance, two "sigmas." The influence of Bloom's two-sigma…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Academic Achievement, Educational Experiments, Tests
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Wendy Castillo; Nathan Babb – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
Quantitative Critical Race Theory (QuantCrit) is a burgeoning field of study seeking to challenge and improve the use of statistical data in social research. It pulls lessons and insights from Critical Race Theory and applies them to understanding social challenges. In this paper, we aim to improve the quality of quantitative research produced by…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Critical Race Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education