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Vinje, Hilde; Brovold, Helge; Almøy, Trygve; Frøslie, Kathrine Frey; Saebø, Solve – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
Historically, the introductory course in statistics at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), has taken a traditional, lecture-based form. A previous study at the NMBU concluded that the course structure appeared to disfavor certain cognitive or personality types, extraverts in particular. Therefore, in 2016, as an experiment, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Statistics Education, Active Learning
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Immelman, Timothy D.; Wielkiewicz, Richard M. – College Student Journal, 2020
Participants were 318 college students from two small, Catholic liberal arts institutions in the Upper Midwest. Variation (i.e., having friends with varied interests and activities) of an individual's social network was measured by a researcher-developed inventory, the Social Network Variation Scale (SNVS). Social network strength was measured by…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Stress Variables, Psychological Patterns, Undergraduate Students
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Mahasneh, Ahmad M.; Al-Zoubi, Zohair H.; Batayeneh, Omar T. – International Education Studies, 2013
This study aimed to examine the correlation between optimism-pessimism and personality traits (extraversion, introversion, emotional stability and neuroticism), also aimed to identify the prevalence of optimism and pessimism in the study sample according to the variable sex, academic specialization, level of study, and grade point average. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes