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Maria Tackett

Maria Tackett

Associate Professor of the Practice of Statistical Science
Statistical Science
maria.tackett@duke.edu
P.O. Box 90251, Durham, NC 27708
118B Old Chemistry Building, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

Evaluating Student Perceptions of Assessment in Introductory Quantitative Studies

Journal Article International Journal of Assessment and Evaluation · January 1, 2025 Science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) occupations are the fastest-growing jobs in the workforce; therefore, the demand for university graduates with STEM degrees is at an all-time high. Ideally, students feel motivated not only to pursue STEM fo ... Full text Cite

A Mixed-Methods Study of Classroom Community Among Undergraduate Students in Introductory Mathematics and Statistics

Journal Article International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities · January 1, 2025 A strong sense of classroom community is associated with many positive learning outcomes and is a crucial contributor to undergraduate students’ persistence in STEM, particularly for women and students of color. This article describes a mixed-methods inves ... Full text Cite

Classroom Community in Introductory Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics: A Mixed Methods Study of Student Belonging and Course Attributes

Conference https://doi.org/10.18848/978-1-963049-71-8/CGP · July 12, 2024 A strong sense of classroom community is associated with many positive learning outcomes and is a critical contributor to undergraduate students’ persistence in STEM, particularly for women and students of color. This poster describes a mixed-methods inves ... Cite

Primary care need and engagement by people with criminal legal involvement: Descriptive and associational analysis using retrospective data on the entire population ever detained in one southeastern U.S. county jail 2014-2020.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2024 More than 7 million people are released each year from U.S. jails or prisons, many with chronic diseases that would benefit from primary care in their returning communities. The objective of this study was to provide an in-depth, payer-agnostic description ... Full text Link to item Cite

Reliance on Community Emergency Departments by People Ever Detained in Jail: Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study.

Journal Article Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care · August 2023 Millions are confined in U.S. jails each year, often with unmet health and social needs. After release, many will visit the emergency department (ED). To illuminate their patterns of ED use, this study linked records from all individuals detained at a Sout ... Full text Cite

Relationships between substance use disorders, 'severe mental illness' and re-arrest in a county detention facility: A 4-year follow-up cohort study.

Journal Article Crim Behav Ment Health · June 2023 BACKGROUND: A growing body of literature demonstrates strong association between poor mental health and criminal recidivism, but research from county jails is limited. AIMS: Our aim was to examine the relationship between re-arrest and severe mental illnes ... Full text Link to item Cite

Insights from DataFest point to new opportunities for undergraduate statistics courses: Team collaborations, designing research questions, and data ethics

Journal Article Teaching Statistics · June 1, 2023 As the field of data science evolves with advancing technology and methods for working with data, so do the opportunities for re-conceptualizing how we teach undergraduate statistics and data science courses for majors and non-majors alike. In this paper, ... Full text Cite

Intersectionality of Race and Question-Asking in Women After Right Hemisphere Brain Damage.

Journal Article J Speech Lang Hear Res · January 12, 2023 PURPOSE: Atypical pragmatic language can impede quality health care access. Right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) results in changes in pragmatic language use; however, little is known about whether there are racial/ethnic influences. Recent research indicat ... Full text Link to item Cite

A validation of the short-form classroom community scale for undergraduate mathematics and statistics students

Journal Article Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice · January 1, 2023 This study examines Cho & Demmans Epp’s short-form adaptation of Rovai’s well-known Classroom Community Scale (CCS-SF) as a measure of classroom community among introductory undergraduate math and statistics students. A series of statistical analyses were ... Full text Cite

Three Principles for Modernizing an Undergraduate Regression Analysis Course

Journal Article Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education · January 1, 2023 As data have become more prevalent in academia, industry, and daily life, it is imperative that undergraduate students are equipped with the skills needed to analyze data in the modern environment. In recent years there has been a lot of work innovating in ... Full text Cite

Teaching Courses Focused on Social Good

Journal Article CHANCE · July 3, 2021 Full text Cite

Implementing Version Control With Git and GitHub as a Learning Objective in Statistics and Data Science Courses

Journal Article Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education · January 1, 2021 A version control system records changes to a file or set of files over time so that changes can be tracked and specific versions of a file can be recalled later. As such, it is an essential element of a reproducible workflow that deserves due consideratio ... Full text Cite

COVID-19 Data in the Classroom

Journal Article CHANCE · July 2, 2020 Full text Cite

Design Thinking-Based STEM Learning: Preliminary Results on Achieving Scale and Sustainability Through the IGNITE Model

Journal Article Frontiers in Education · February 25, 2020 Solutions to the most pressing global issues require creative innovators, critical thinkers, and problem-solvers. Yet rural communities globally often lack the resources to provide adequate STEM design-thinking coursework at the primary and secondary schoo ... Full text Cite