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Curley, Brenna; Peterson, Anna – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022
In this article, we outline several activities revolving around soccer players who participated in the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Classroom activities are described from different perspectives, useful for a range of different statistics courses. In a first semester probability theory course, students investigate the…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Competition, Teaching Methods, Data Analysis
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Johnson, Roger W. – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
Percentage of body fat, age, weight, height, and 14 circumference measurements (e.g., waist) are given for 184 women aged 18-25. Body fat, one measure of health, was accurately determined by an underwater weighing technique which requires special equipment and training of the individuals conducting the process. Modeling body fat percentage using…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Age Differences
Broad, Steven; McGee, Meredith – Association Supporting Computer Users in Education, 2014
While many technical disciplines have reached or are moving toward gender parity in the number of bachelors degrees in those fields, the percentage of women graduating in computer science remains stubbornly low. Many recent efforts to address this situation have focused on retention of undergraduate majors or graduate students, recruiting…
Descriptors: Females, Computer Science, Information Systems, Recruitment
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Hawi, N. – Computers & Education, 2010
The purpose of this research is to identify the causal attributions of business computing students in an introductory computer programming course, in the computer science department at Notre Dame University, Louaize. Forty-five male and female undergraduates who completed the computer programming course that extended for a 13-week semester…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies