'I'm not a quants person'; key strategies in building competence and confidence in staff who teach quantitative research methods'
'I'm not a quants person'; key strategies in building competence and confidence in staff who teach quantitative research methods'
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DOI：
10.1080/13645579.2015.1062623
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发表时间：
2015-09-03
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Goldring, John E.
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作者：
Jones, Julie Scott;Goldring, John E.
像英国ESRC的RDI/CI计划和Q-Step中心这样的举措，都有一个长期目标，即解决能够并愿意教授定量方法(QM)的学者池中有充分证据的下降问题。然而，这些举措需要时间才能产生影响；因此，如果我们想要在课程中保持质量管理，提高现有员工的技能是一个至关重要的战略。这篇论文引用了ESRC RDI项目的发现，“不再有尖刻的点击，数字的东西；建立员工的量化技能”。这个项目的重点是一个大型社会学系的高技能员工。该项目致力于提供培训，以培养工作人员在质量管理方面的能力；然而，很明显，仅有这一点不足以建立工作人员的信心。因此，该项目推出了一项更复杂的战略，解决了一系列核心问题，包括教育学、基础设施、部门资源和战略以及工作人员的世界观，本文对此进行了探讨。
Initiatives, like the UK ESRC's RDI/CI programmes and the Q-Step Centres, have a long-term aim of addressing the well-documented decline in the pool of academics able and willing to teach quantitative methods (QM). However, these initiatives will take time to make an impact; therefore, the upskilling of current staff is a vital strategy if we want to maintain QM in curricula. This paper draws on findings from the ESRC RDI project, 'No More Pointy Clicky, numbers stuff; building staff quantitative skills'. This project focussed on upskilling staff in a large Sociology department. The project was committed to delivering training to develop staff competence in QM; however, it became clear that this alone would not be sufficient to build staff confidence. Therefore, the project rolled-out a more complex strategy that addressed a range of central issues, including, pedagogy, infrastructure, Departmental resourcing and strategy, and staff worldviews, which this article explores.