Dear Ecologists:
I'm a doctoral candidate in Mathematics Education at the University
of Texas, Austin, conducting a study on biologists’ use of math to
identify the main mathematical and statistical tools currently used in
the field. The results of the study would help to inform the graduate
and undergraduate curriculum in Biology and Mathematics—as well as the
curriculum of related training programs outside of academia—so that they
would better align with student needs at their future workplace.
The first part of the study consists of an online survey designed
for biologists (from the areas of ecology, evolution, and behavior and
developmental biology) that was piloted by faculty members and students
at UT Austin and has an average completion time of 9 minutes.
I emailed an invitation through Ecolog a couple of months ago to
participate in this survey and received more than 300 responses. I am
incredibly thankful for your participation. I just wanted to extend the
invitation this last time, in case someone didn't have time at that
moment and might now have a few minutes.
I can offer no compensation, but I would be happy to share the
results of the study and make you eligible to win one of four $25 Amazon
gift cards. The online survey is completely anonymous; you will just
need to click on the link below to take it.
https://utexas.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3sAsOBtAhu4R8BD
Thank you so much for taking the time to consider my request, and please
let me know if you have any further questions.
Pablo Duran
Doctoral candidate in Mathematics Education
The University of Texas at Austin
