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Activity Number:
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188
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 3, 2009 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #302966 |
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Title:
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Turning our GAISE Toward Departments of Psychology
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Author(s):
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Patricia C. Rutledge*+
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Companies:
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Allegheny College
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Address:
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520 North Main Street, Meadville, PA, 16335,
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Keywords:
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statistical education ; GAISE College Report ; psychology departments
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Abstract:
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Psychology is a popular major with thousands of graduates yearly. This major usually requires courses in statistics. Recently, statistics educators focused on the quality of the introductory statistics course, produced the GAISE College Report with a set of recommendations for the course. Although these educators recognized that the introductory course is a family of courses across the disciplines, it is unclear how familiar psychology departments are with GAISE. This paper provides information on this issue by describing statistics education in the psychology departments of the member institutions of the GLCA. The content and structure of the research methods and statistics courses required for the psychology major were examined, with special emphasis placed on GAISE. The findings point to the need for a bridge between statistics educators and psychologists who teach statistics.
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