Convincing Students? Quantitative Junkies, Avoiders and Converts on a Cross-Disciplinary Course Using Quantitative Narratives
Convincing Students? Quantitative Junkies, Avoiders and Converts on a Cross-Disciplinary Course Using Quantitative Narratives
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10.11120/elss.2014.00039
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2015
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Milligan L
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Milligan L
人们越来越担心缺乏具备基本定量方法技能的社会科学本科生，学生的忧虑被认为是学习定量方法的障碍。 ESRC 最近资助的一个项目试图通过为一年级本科生设计一个跨学科的社会科学单元来克服这种恐惧和焦虑。该单元旨在通过使用“定量叙述”来激发学生的想象力——对当前社会问题或争议的描述，允许以情境化的方式引入定量概念。本文介绍了该单位定性评估的结果。它考虑了涵盖一系列社会科学科目的学生的态度和经验、自引的信心水平和先前的统计经验。介绍了参加该课程的学生类型，揭示了满足所有学生需求的挑战。结论考虑了该评估对定量方法课程开发的影响以及对高等教育跨学科教学的更广泛考虑。
Amidst growing concern about the shortage of social science undergraduate students with even basic quantitative methods skills, student apprehension is recognised as a barrier to learning quantitative methods. A recent ESRC-funded project has sought to overcome such fear and anxiety through the design of a cross-disciplinary social sciences unit for first-year undergraduates. The unit aimed to capture students’ imaginations by the use of ‘quantitative narratives’ – descriptions of current social issues or controversies that allow quantitative concepts to be introduced in a contextualised way. This paper presents findings from the qualitative evaluation of the unit. It considers the attitudes and experiences of students who covered a spectrum of social science subjects, self-cited levels of confidence and prior experience of statistics. A typology of students taking the course is presented, revealing the challenge of meeting the needs of all students. Conclusions consider the implications of this evaluation both for the development of quantitative methods curricula and wider considerations for cross-disciplinary teaching in higher education.
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