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ERIC Number: EJ1230608
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Oct
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0092-055X
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Teaching Data Reproducibility through Service Learning
Nurse, Anne M.; Staiger, Trish
Teaching Sociology, v47 n4 p350-357 Oct 2019
Data reproducibility is becoming increasingly important in the social sciences, but it has yet to be incorporated into many undergraduate sociology programs. This note describes a service-learning activity that can be added to an introductory statistics course. Students partner with a nonprofit and analyze quantitative data to answer questions selected by the agency. Reproducibility is the central mechanism of communication between the nonprofit, the students, and the course instructor. An assessment of the project suggests that students achieve an understanding of how to create reproducible data. They also come to see its value as a method of communication about data decisions.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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