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Whitley, Cameron T.; Dietz, Thomas – Teaching Sociology, 2018
Thirty years ago, Hubert M. Blalock Jr. published an article in "Teaching Sociology" about the importance of teaching statistics. We honor Blalock's legacy by assessing how using Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) in statistics classes can enhance student learning and increase statistical literacy among social science gradaute students. In…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Statistics, Teaching Methods, Social Science Research
Julie Anderson – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case report describes the methods used to investigate a study concerning the Literacy and Numeracy assessment practices of primary teachers and the impact of educational reform (Blueprint 1). Qualitative case study methods framed by an ethnological approach were useful in the study, and the participants were bounded by the context of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research Methodology, Literacy, Numeracy
Stamper, John C.; Lomas, Derek; Ching, Dixie; Ritter, Steve; Koedinger, Kenneth R.; Steinhart, Jonathan – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2012
Traditional experimental paradigms have focused on executing experiments in a lab setting and eventually moving successful findings to larger experiments in the field. However, data from field experiments can also be used to inform new lab experiments. Now, with the advent of large student populations using internet-based learning software, online…
Descriptors: Internet, Feedback (Response), Computer Software, Data Collection