Hi Everyone,
This message is meant to piggy-back on the message Marc Center posted about
articles that might cover different analysis techniques. I am also very
interested in this. I currently teach both an online introductory and
intermediate statistics class, and in both classes, I involve students in
group discussion. I'm thinking of trying to set up some group discussion
assignments that would involve critiquing journal articles that include
analysis techniques students are learning about. For example, students in
my intermediate course will learn about the one-way between-subjects ANOVA
early in the semester. I thought it would be beneficial to them to see an
example of a research study that actually used a one-way ANOVA. I found a
very short article that I feel would be interesting and appropriate, but
I'm struggling to come up with some good reflection questions I can pose to
get the students talking about the article and critiquing it. Ideally, I
want questions that will lend themselves to many possible responses so that
students do indeed engage in "discussion."
I was thinking about asking them to imagine that they were in the position
of reviewing the article BEFORE it was published, and to discuss issues
such as sampling, methods used to gather and analyze data, possible
confounding variables that may have come into play, possible violations in
assumptions, and the practical importance of the findings. The article is
fairly light in terms of discussing possible shortcomings of the research
that was conducted, so I'm hoping this in itself will lead to discussion
and critique. However, I'm wondering if anyone on this list has tried
something similar--either online or in the classroom--and might have a good
list of questions to share that get students to think very critically about
research they are reading about.
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!
Sincerely,
Michelle Everson
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Michelle Everson, Ph.D.
Quantitative Methods in Education
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Minnesota
[email protected]
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~delma001/CATALST/
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