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Jon-Paul Paolino – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2024
This article presents a novel approach to introducing principal component analysis (PCA), using summary tables and descriptive statistics. Given its applicability across a variety of academic disciplines, this topic offers abundant opportunity for class discussion and activities. However, teaching PCA in an introductory class can be challenging…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Factor Analysis, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
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Michael E. Ellis; K. Mike Casey; Geoffrey Hill – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2024
Large Language Model (LLM) artificial intelligence tools present a unique challenge for educators who teach programming languages. While LLMs like ChatGPT have been well documented for their ability to complete exams and create prose, there is a noticeable lack of research into their ability to solve problems using high-level programming…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages, Programming, Homework
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Amelia McNamara – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
When incorporating programming into a statistics course, there are many pedagogical considerations. In R, one consideration is the particular R syntax used. This article reports on a head-to-head comparison of a pair of introductory statistics labs, one conducted in the formula syntax, the other in tidyverse. Pre- and post-surveys show minimal…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses, Statistics Education, Programming Languages
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Ethan C. Campbell; Katy M. Christensen; Mikelle Nuwer; Amrita Ahuja; Owen Boram; Junzhe Liu; Reese Miller; Isabelle Osuna; Stephen C. Riser – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2025
Scientific programming has become increasingly essential for manipulating, visualizing, and interpreting the large volumes of data acquired in earth science research. Yet few discipline-specific instructional approaches have been documented and assessed for their effectiveness in equipping geoscience undergraduate students with coding skills. Here…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Undergraduate Students, Programming Languages, Computer Software
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Judith Galezer; Smadar Szekely – Informatics in Education, 2024
Spark, one of the products offered by MyQ (formerly Plethora), is a game-based platform meticulously designed to introduce students to the foundational concepts of computer science. By navigating through logical challenges, users delve into topics like abstraction, loops, and graph patterns. Setting itself apart from its counterparts, Spark boasts…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Game Based Learning, Computer Science Education, Teaching Methods
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Rita Garcia; Michelle Craig – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
Introduction: Computer Science Education does not have a universally defined set of concepts consistently covered in all introductory courses (CS1). One approach to understanding the concepts covered in CS1 is to ask educators. In 2004, Nell Dale did just this. She also collected their perceptions on challenging topics to teach. Dale mused how the…
Descriptors: Replication (Evaluation), Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Introductory Courses
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Jaroslaw Pawel Adamiak – Open Praxis, 2024
The academic success of first-year students' learning in science faculties is by no means assured, especially in an Open Distance Learning setting with its limited number of face-to-face encounters between students and lecturers or tutors. Therefore, such encounters should be highly efficient in view of the considerable amount of knowledge…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Open Education
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Anand Jeyaraj – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2024
A significant activity in the business analytics process is enrichment, which deals with acquiring and combining data from external sources. While different strategies for enrichment are possible, it can be accomplished more efficiently through automation using Python scripts. Since business students may not be immersed in technology skills and…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Business Administration Education, Data Analysis, Programming Languages
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Tang, Marc – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2020
University students in other disciplines without prior knowledge in statistics and/or programming language are introduced to the statistical method of decision trees in the programming language R during a 45-minute teaching and practice session. Statistics and programming skills are now frequently required within a wide variety of research fields…
Descriptors: Statistics, Teaching Methods, Programming, Programming Languages
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Çetinkaya-Rundel, Mine; Dogucu, Mine; Rummerfield, Wendy – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2022
Many data science applications involve generating questions, acquiring data and preparing it for analysis--be it exploratory, inferential, or modeling focused--and communicating findings. Most data science curricula address each of these steps as separate units in a course or as separate courses. Open-ended term projects, however, allow students…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Data Analysis, Statistics Education, Units of Study
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Tessa Charles; Carl Gwilliam – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2023
STEM fields, such as physics, increasingly rely on complex programs to analyse large datasets, thus teaching students the required programming skills is an important component of all STEM curricula. Since undergraduate students often have no prior coding experience, they are reliant on error messages as the primary diagnostic tool to identify and…
Descriptors: Automation, Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Physics
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Custer, Gordon F.; van Diepen, Linda T. A.; Seeley, Janel – Natural Sciences Education, 2021
Quantitative literacy is necessary to keep pace with the exponentially increasing magnitude of biological data and the complexity of statistical tools. However, statistical programming can cause anxiety in new learners and educators alike. In order to produce graduates that are well-prepared for quantitative research, overcoming the initial…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Computer Science Education, Student Attitudes, Time Management
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Menon, Pratibha – Information Systems Education Journal, 2023
Instruction in an introductory programming course is typically designed to introduce new concepts and to review and integrate the more recent concepts with what was previously learned in the course. Therefore, most exam questions in an introductory programming course require students to write lines of code that contain syntactic elements…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education, Correlation
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Daniele Traversaro; Giorgio Delzanno; Giovanna Guerrini – Informatics in Education, 2024
Concurrency is a complex to learn topic that is becoming more and more relevant, such that many undergraduate Computer Science curricula are introducing it in introductory programming courses. This paper investigates the combined use of Sonic Pi and Team-Based Learning to mitigate the difficulties in early exposure to concurrency. Sonic Pi, a…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students
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Hsu, Jane Lu; Jones, Abram; Lin, Jia-Huei; Chen, You-Ren – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2022
The objective of this study is to present and discuss how data visualization can be incorporated into teaching approaches by business faculty in introductory business statistics to strengthen business students' practical skills. Data visualization lessens difficulties in learning statistics by providing opportunities to illustrate analytical…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Introductory Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics
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