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Zhang, Zhiyong; Zhang, Danyang – Grantee Submission, 2021
Data science has maintained its popularity for about 20 years. This study adopts a bottom-up approach to understand what data science is by analyzing the descriptions of courses offered by the data science programs in the United States. Through topic modeling, 14 topics are identified from the current curricula of 56 data science programs. These…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Definitions, Course Descriptions, Computer Science Education
Reardon, Sean F.; Ho, Andrew D. – Grantee Submission, 2015
Ho and Reardon (2012) present methods for estimating achievement gaps when test scores are coarsened into a small number of ordered categories, preventing fine-grained distinctions between individual scores. They demonstrate that gaps can nonetheless be estimated with minimal bias across a broad range of simulated and real coarsened data…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Performance Factors, Educational Practices, Scores