Jackie Carter

The University of Manchester

The aim of this paper is first to examine, through a qualitative analysis of statistics syllabi, the current state of statistical education in a sample of universities in Colombia. The focus is on statistics teaching in degrees for economics and business administration students. The results from the qualitative analysis reflect a preponderance of t...

This paper describes two successful approaches to quantitative data literacy training within the UK and the synergies and collaborations between these two programmes. The first is a data literacy training programme, being delivered by the UK Data Service, which focuses on training in basic data literacy skills. The second is a Data Fellows programm...

EmpoderaData – from the Spanish word empoderar ‘to empower’ – is a partnership research project between the University of Manchester (UK), Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) and Data-Pop Alliance (US and France). The project builds upon a successful data-driven, research-led paid internship programme in the UK (Q-S...

This paper presents an innovative model for developing data and statistical literacy in the undergraduate population through an experiential learning model developed in the UK. The national Q-Step (Quantitative Step change) programme (2013–2021) aimed to (i) create a step change in teaching undergraduate social science students quantitative researc...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) create a global need to deliver on an agenda which relies heavily on quantitative data. This creates a demand for human capital with the requisite statistical and data skills to work on the challenges represented by the SDGs. Increasingly, long-term domestic solutions to the building of statistical capaci...

Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries - edited by Starr Hoffman August 2016

(Cambridge Core - General - Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries - edited by Starr Hoffman) TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction: a vision for supporting research - Starr Hoffman // Part 1: Training and infrastructure // Introduction to Part 1 - Starr Hoffman -- 1. Constructing a model for Mexican libraries in the 21st century - Alberto Sant...

There is growing recognition that good (quantitative) data skills are an essential part of a graduates skill set in an increasingly competitive jobs market. This is the context for the UK’s ‘Q- Step’ programme, a strategic response to a widely reported shortage of these skills among social science graduates. This paper describes an initiative at th...

The data deluge over the past twenty years has resulted in an explosion in volumes of available data. Access to data is increasingly easy; technology advances have resulted in increasingly sophisticated ways to represent and analyse these data. Citizens are confronted with statistics and numbers in a multitude of ways, so the imperative for improvi...

Those aiming to respond to the recognised shortage in quantitative skills within the UK social sciences have increasingly focused on the content of undergraduate degree programmes. Problems occur when quantitative methods are generally confined to a dedicated module, detached from substantive topics. This model makes it hard for students to underst...

This special issue is the fourth devoted to Open Educational Resources (OER) and the third to be drawn from papers presented at the main annual UK-based OER conference. For this special issue, the editors selected papers from the OER13 conference, held in Nottingham in March 2013. The main conference themes were Evidence, Experiences and Expectatio...

This special issue is the fourth devoted to Open Educational Resources (OER) and the third to be drawn from papers presented at the main annual UK-based OER conference. For this special issue, the editors selected papers from the OER13 conference, held in Nottingham in March 2013. The main conference themes were Evidence, Experiences and Expectatio...

In the UK the 2010 Royal Statistical Society campaign - getstats - and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have identified a pressing need to promote the use and understanding of statistical data and quantitative methods (QM). Despite excellent research data infrastructure such as the UK Data Service, the ESRC acknowledges a QM skills d...

According to UNESCO, "[t]he transformative educational potential of OER depends on: 1. Improving the quality of learning materials through peer review processes; 2. Reaping the benefits of contextualisation, personalisation and localisation; […]". These have been crucial unfulfilled opportunities for over a decade, and they present significant chal...

Increasing volumes of statistical data are being made available on the open web, including from the World Bank. This ‘data deluge’ provides both opportunities and challenges. Good use of these data requires statistical literacy. This paper presents results from a project that set out to better understand how socioeconomic secondary data are being u...

Recent work has shown that using real-life, regularly updated data to teach econometrics and related social science statistical skills has a number of benefits over using fictional or pre-configured datasets that have been developed purely for specific learning activities. The use of actual data adds interest and relevance to courses, helps to prep...

Purpose – This short article is an introduction to the Data Cluster of 5/99. Design/methodology/approach – Looks at the three projects in the cluster which dealt with uncovering the obstacles to using numeric data in learning (Datareach), producing teaching materials on time series data and making it easier to access OECD indicators (Timeweb) and...

This paper describes the online learning and teaching resources that are currently being developed for the contemporary and historical UK censuses as part of a project that is being funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to support its ‘Information Environment’. The online resources are intended to support learners and teachers in...

Learning and Teaching with the UK Census

Learning and Teaching with the UK Census

This article covers five of the projects that have been funded under the DNER development programme to enhance use of JISC data services in learning and teaching. The data services referred to are provided by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, MIMAS at Manchester Computing, University of Manchester, the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex...

This paper describes recent developments aimed at promoting increased and improved use of the Aggregate Statistics results from contemporary UK Censuses of Population that are currently available to UK academics, as well as those from the 2001 Census when they become available in mid-2003. This is accomplished by the provision of web-based tools de...

this paper, we only mention one further capability: once a user has found and interactively adapted a specific map of interest this map can be saved for further use. Importantly, such a map is not just a raster picture but a description of the data and the visualization method that was chosen for presenting the data (pie chart, bar chart, or the li...

In the event of an accidental release of radioactive material into the environment appropriate responses will be aided by the analysis and display of the collected data. This paper considers the suitability of using the geostatistical technique of ordinary kriging to interpolate between environmental measurements. Two factors affecting the accuracy...