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David Voas; Laura Watt – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2025
Binary logistic regression is one of the most widely used statistical tools. The method uses odds, log odds, and odds ratios, which are difficult to understand and interpret. Understanding of logistic regression tends to fall down in one of three ways: (1) Many students and researchers come to believe that an odds ratio translates directly into…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistics Education, Regression (Statistics), Misconceptions
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Ioana-Elena Oana; Carsten Q. Schneider – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
The robustness of qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) results features high on the agenda of methodologists and practitioners. This article aims at advancing this debate on several fronts. First, in line with the extant literature, we take a comprehensive view on robustness arguing that decisions on calibration, consistency, and frequency…
Descriptors: Robustness (Statistics), Qualitative Research, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
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Prerna Srigyan; Kim Fortun – Science & Education, 2025
Research in cultural anthropology and the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS) has demonstrated that environmental disasters are not only techno-scientifically and socio-politically complex but also epistemically complex -- involving perspectival diversity; multiple, often conflicting forms of evidence; data gaps and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Environmental Education, Natural Disasters, Justice
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Chi Kit Jacky Ng; Lok Yin Joyce Kwan; Wai Chan – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
In the past decade, moderated mediation analysis has been extensively and increasingly employed in social and behavioral sciences. With its widespread use, it is particularly important to ensure the moderated mediation analysis will not bring spurious results. Spurious effects have been studied in both mediation and moderation analysis, but this…
Descriptors: Mediation Theory, Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Predictor Variables
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Iva Božovic – Journal of Political Science Education, 2024
This work reports on the implementation of a self-contained data-literacy exercise designed for use in undergraduate classes to help students practice data literacy skills such as interpreting and evaluating evidence and assessing arguments based on data. The exercises use already developed data-visualizations to test and develop students' ability…
Descriptors: Data Use, Teaching Methods, Data, Information Literacy
Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2024
Wisconsin's technical colleges appear to receive unusually high funding levels per student compared to other public two-year colleges nationally. Yet our review has found more than 100,000 technical college students being served in Wisconsin are absent in national data, likely inflating the funding figures. Accounting for the missing students…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, State Aid, Part Time Students, Full Time Students
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Tye A. Ripma – Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs collects data on how states implement the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act through the mandated State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR). Some indicators in the SPP/APR require state educational agencies (SEAs) to report data by race and ethnicity.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion, Special Education
E. Nielsen; M. Pelczar – Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2024
This research brief describes recent methodological initiatives with the Public Libraries Survey. It describes how starting with the 2022 data, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) updated geographic identifiers to better align Census Bureau geography types with the library's legal service area, with the goal of enabling data users to…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Special Libraries, Museums, Library Role
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Liza Bondurant; Stephanie Somersille – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
This article describes an activity and resource from The New York Times that can be used to help learners cultivate critical statistical literacy. Critical statistical literacy involves understanding, interpreting, and questioning statistical information to make informed decisions (Casey et al., 2023; Franklin et al., 2015; Weiland, 2017). It is a…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Newspapers, Decision Making
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Jessie King; Barnaby Kelly; Nayla Rhein; Rhonda Rosengren – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
To best prepare students for the real-world research environment, key skills, including experimental design, data analysis, communication of results, and critical thinking, should be key components of undergraduate science courses. Furthermore, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on in-person teaching has resulted in a need to develop courses that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Laboratory Experiments, Research Design, Data Interpretation
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Tamara Nelson-Fromm; Bahare Naimipour; Tamara Shreiner; Mark Guzdial – Social Education, 2024
Data literacy, an important goal for social studies education, involves teaching students how to comprehend, analyze, interpret, evaluate, create, and argue with data and data visualizations such as timelines, maps, and graphs. Digital data visualizations support rapid inquiry and explorations that would be difficult on paper - such as adding data…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Social Studies, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Federica Picasso; Javiera Atenas; Leo Havemann; Anna Serbati – Open Praxis, 2024
The development of critical data and artificial intelligence (AI) literacy has become a key focus in current discussions in Higher Education, thus it is necessary to develop and advance capacity building, reflectiveness and awareness across disciplines to critically address the possibilities and challenges presented by data and AI. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Artificial Intelligence, Data Collection
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Annie Irvine – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
Engaging with primary researchers during qualitative secondary analysis is a practice much recommended but rarely written about. In this article, I reflect on my experience of crossing an imagined boundary between the discrete textual dataset and its creators, of acknowledging and engaging with those researchers who invested in constructing the…
Descriptors: Researchers, Foreign Countries, Primary Sources, Research Methodology
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Corinne Thatcher Day – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
Since data collection technologies has become a part of daily life, measurement and data requirements now permeate many state mathematics standards, beginning as early as kindergarten and extending through high school. For example, the Standards for Mathematical Content, recommend that kindergarteners "describe and compare measurable…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, High School Students