Exposure to guided tutorials in statistical programming in R and associated quantitative skills in biology
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Teaching with Technology – Research
Abstract
Today’s biology requires quantitative skills which faculty are often pedagogically unequipped to teach. To address this problem, we set to out assess whether exposure to a statistical programming language via a guided tutorial (swirl in R) led to statistical and programming skill gains in students. We used a population of undergraduate students at a large southeastern R1 university enrolled in either lecture alone (control; N-=27) or lab and lecture of a lower-division Ecology courses (‘trained’, N=64) assessed in pre-/post-semester using an ARTIST instrument. Data from this ongoing study are promising, with students demonstrating overall improved abilities using guided programming tutorials
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Room 3
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Recommended Citation
O'Sullivan, Tim Sean and Weigel, Emily Grace, "Exposure to guided tutorials in statistical programming in R and associated quantitative skills in biology" (2019). SoTL Commons Conference. 16.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2019/16
Exposure to guided tutorials in statistical programming in R and associated quantitative skills in biology
Room 3
Today’s biology requires quantitative skills which faculty are often pedagogically unequipped to teach. To address this problem, we set to out assess whether exposure to a statistical programming language via a guided tutorial (swirl in R) led to statistical and programming skill gains in students. We used a population of undergraduate students at a large southeastern R1 university enrolled in either lecture alone (control; N-=27) or lab and lecture of a lower-division Ecology courses (‘trained’, N=64) assessed in pre-/post-semester using an ARTIST instrument. Data from this ongoing study are promising, with students demonstrating overall improved abilities using guided programming tutorials
