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Numbers, Pictures, and Politics: Teaching Research Methods through Data Visualizations
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Rom, Mark Carl – Journal of Political Science Education, 2015
Data visualization is the term used to describe the methods and technologies used to allow the exploration and communication of quantitative information graphically. Data visualization is a rapidly growing and evolving discipline, and visualizations are widely used to cover politics. Yet, while popular and scholarly publications widely use…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Research Methodology, Statistical Data, Visualization
Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data: Summary of a Workshop
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Mellody, Maureen – National Academies Press, 2014
As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log records, and wireless sensor networks has grown, science, engineering, and business have rapidly transitioned from striving to develop information from scant data to a situation in which the challenge is now…
Descriptors: Workshops, Training, Competence, Data Collection
Data Nuggets: Bringing Real Data into the Classroom to Unearth Students' Quantitative & Inquiry Skills
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Schultheis, Elizabeth H.; Kjelvik, Melissa K. – American Biology Teacher, 2015
Current educational reform calls for increased integration between science and mathematics to overcome the shortcomings in students' quantitative skills. Data Nuggets (free online resource, http://datanuggets.org) are worksheets that bring data into the classroom, repeatedly guiding students through the scientific method and making claims…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Process Skills, Educational Change, Statistical Analysis
Developing Statistical Literacy Using Real-World Data: Investigating Socioeconomic Secondary Data Resources Used in Research and Teaching
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Carter, Jackie; Noble, Susan; Russell, Andrew; Swanson, Eric – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2011
Increasing volumes of statistical data are being made available on the open web, including from the World Bank. This "data deluge" provides both opportunities and challenges. Good use of these data requires statistical literacy. This paper presents results from a project that set out to better understand how socioeconomic secondary data…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Socioeconomic Status, Numeracy, Social Sciences
Graduate Social Work Students' Attitudes toward Research: Problems and Prospects
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Morgenshtern, Marina; Freymond, Nancy; Agyapong, Samuel; Greeson, Clare – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2011
This study examines the attitudes of graduate social work students toward research in the contexts of academic study, professional social work practice, and students' personal lives. The authors collected quantitative and qualitative data from MSW students (n = 102) at a major Canadian school of social work. Findings suggest that MSW students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Social Work, Teaching Methods
Employer Satisfaction with 2003 Public Higher Education Graduates in Connecticut: Report on Pilot Study. Report
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Lessne, Deborah S. – Connecticut Department of Higher Education (NJ1), 2005
This report contains the results of a pilot survey of employer satisfaction with Connecticut's public college graduates from the class of 2003 conducted by the Department of Higher Education (DHE) in the spring of 2005. The project was part of a four-state project entitled, "Defining Best Practices for Responsible Accountability Models in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, College Graduates, Job Skills