Chair support, faculty entrepreneurship, and the teaching of statistical reasoning to journalism undergraduates in the United States
Chair support, faculty entrepreneurship, and the teaching of statistical reasoning to journalism undergraduates in the United States
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主席支持、教师创业精神以及对美国新闻学本科生的统计推理教学
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2016
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S. Dunwoody
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作者：
R. Griffin;S. Dunwoody
统计推理和计算是不一样的。相反，它涉及认知技能，例如批判性和系统性地思考数据的能力，这些技能对日常新闻工作很重要，对数据新闻时代至关重要。对美国新闻专业本科生的两项调查相隔11年进行，结果显示，那些从统计推理教学中获益的人更有可能奖励创业精神（教师试图将这种教学融入课堂），但随着时间的推移，这种教师的数量相当少。在统计推理教学中，与大学目标保持一致似乎会激励主席在两次浪潮中做出奖励决定。他们越来越多地考虑到他们所看到的统计推理对学生的一般价值，以及它在新闻就业市场上可能给他们带来的竞争优势。知觉到的限制，以教这个内容没有明显的整体影响奖励的决定。
Statistical reasoning is not the same as doing calculations. Instead, it involves cognitive skills such as the ability to think critically and systematically with data, skills important for everyday news work and essential for the era of data journalism. Twin surveys of the chairs of undergraduate journalism programs in the United States, conducted 11 years apart, revealed that those who perceived benefits from statistical reasoning instruction were more likely to reward entrepreneurship (faculty attempts to integrate this instruction into their classes), but with slow gains over time in the fairly small number of such faculty. Being consistent with university goals in statistical reasoning instruction appeared to motivate chairs’ reward decisions in both waves. Increasingly, they took into account what they saw as the general value of statistical reasoning for their students and the competitive edge it could give them in the journalism job market. Perceived constraints to teaching this content had no apparent overall impact on reward decisions.