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== Quantitative research and statistics concepts == | == Quantitative research and statistics concepts == | ||
Latest revision as of 15:02, 27 May 2016
Contents
1 General
- Differences between academic & general writing
- Understanding research based articles
- Guide to theories, laws, models & hypotheses as these terms are used in science and academia
2 Quantitative research and statistics concepts
- Hypotheses
- Some basics of experimental and quantitative design
- Intro to research designs
- Understanding variables
- Understanding stastistics
- Comparing groups: ANOVAs and t-tests
- Correlation
- Factor analysis
3 Teaching & understanding qualitative research
4 Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
- POGIL: Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning - cooperative learning for chemistry and other science fields
- Invention activities and other modern methods in teaching biology - CWSEI at Univ. British Columbia
5 Research ethics, plagiarism, and source use
- Misusing statistics
- Research ethics - notes and famous cases
- Research ethics - handout
- Research ethics - problematic scenarios [for class discussion]
- Plagiarism exercise #1 [exercise based on a popular source]
- Plagiarism exercise #2 [based on an academic article]
- Referencing and citations in APA format
- Rewording - paraphrasing and summarizing
