Journal articleInternational 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 ...
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Journal articleStatistics Education Research Journal · January 1, 2022
Many data science applications involve generating questions, acquiring data and preparing it for analysis—be it exploratory, inferential, or modeling focused—and communicating findings. Most data science curricula address each of these steps as separate un ...
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Journal articleJournal of Statistics and Data Science Education · January 1, 2022
It is recommended that teacher-scholars of data science adopt reproducible workflows in their research as scholars and teach reproducible workflows to their students. In this article, we propose a third dimension to reproducibility practices and recommend ...
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Journal articleJournal of Statistics and Data Science Education · January 1, 2021
Best practices in statistics and data science courses include the use of real and relevant data as well as teaching the entire data science cycle starting with importing data. A rich source of real and current data is the web, where data are often presente ...
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Journal articleJournal of Statistics and Data Science Education · January 1, 2021
The proliferation of vast quantities of available datasets that are large and complex in nature has challenged universities to keep up with the demand for graduates trained in both the statistical and the computational set of skills required to effectively ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal of Statistics Education · January 2, 2020
We designed a sequence of courses for the DataCamp online learning platform that approximates the content of a typical introductory statistics course. We discuss the design and implementation of these courses and illustrate how they can be successfully int ...
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Journal articleJ Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus · July 1, 2018
PURPOSE: To evaluate an alternative retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening system that identifies infants meriting examination by an ophthalmologist in a middle-income country. METHODS: The authors hypothesized that grading posterior pole images for th ...
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Journal articleAmerican Statistician · January 2, 2018
Modern statistics is fundamentally a computational discipline, but too often this fact is not reflected in our statistics curricula. With the rise of big data and data science, it has become increasingly clear that students want, expect, and need explicit ...
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Journal article · August 24, 2017
Modern statistics is fundamentally a computational discipline, but too often this fact is not reflected in our statistics curricula. With the rise of big data and data science it has become increasingly clear that students both want, expect, and ne ...
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Journal article · August 24, 2017
Modern statistics is fundamentally a computational discipline, but too often this fact is not reflected in our statistics curricula. With the rise of big data and data science it has become increasingly clear that students both want, expect, and ne ...
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Journal articleComputers and Education · July 1, 2017
During the widespread development of open access online course materials in the last two decades, advances have been made in understanding the impact of instructional design on quantitative outcomes. Much less is known about the experiences of learners tha ...
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Journal article · April 17, 2015
In this talk we will share experiences from the development, delivery, and assessment of the Data Analysis and Statistical Inference course both on Coursera and on-campus at Duke University, with an emphasis on interactivity.
For the MOOC we wil ...
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Journal articleTechnology Innovations in Statistics Education, 8(1), 2014 · February 8, 2014
Nolan and Temple Lang argue that "the ability to express statistical computations is an essential skill." A key related capacity is the ability to conduct and present data analysis in a way that another person can understand and replicate. The copy-and-pas ...
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Journal articlePlastic and reconstructive surgery · August 2013
BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to determine the evidenced-based value of prophylactic drainage of subcutaneous wounds in surgery.MethodsAn electronic search was performed. Articles comparing subcutaneous prophylactic drainage wit ...
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Journal articleJournal of health care for the poor and underserved · November 2011
BackgroundMedical patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) frequently receive health care services of suboptimal quality.MethodsWe explored whether clients served with staff interpreters (language-discordant, LDI) receive reproduct ...
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Journal articleCurrent Biology
In sexually reproducing animals, male and female reproductive strategies often conflict [1]. In some species, males use aggression to overcome female choice [2, 3], but debate persists over the extent to which this strategy is successful. Previous studies ...
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