Use of Technology in Teaching Quantitative Methods
Royal Statistical Society Statistical Computing Section
"Use of Technology in Teaching Quantitative Methods"
Room N110, de Havilland Campus, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
Wednesday, January 20th 2010
3pm-5pm (Tea from 2.30pm)
Dr Mark Brown, Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester
Karen Robins, Business School, University of Hertfordshire
Dr Neil Spencer, Business School, University of Hertfordshire
This meeting will address the issue of motivating and engaging students studying quantitative methods as part of a degree in a non-mathematical discipline. The methods used by the speakers have technological bases.
Mark Brown will discuss his experience of using the ESDS (Economic and Social Data Service) online data services in teaching social science students.
Karen Robins will discuss the use of electronic voting systems and league tables as a way to motivate and engage students.
Neil Spencer will discuss a system for generating and marking tests, where each student has his or her own data set, but all the students are asked to do the same tasks.
The section's Annual General Meeting will take place at the start of this meeting (expected to last about 10 minutes).
TRAVEL:
rail from London King's Cross to Hatfield then Bus/Taxi to de Havilland
Campus;
car to University of Hertfordshire park-and-ride then shuttle bus;
see http://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/where-to-find-us/ other possibilities are coach links to College Lane campus from airports or bus from St Albans City railway station to de Havilland campus; e-mail travel@herts.ac.uk
PARKING:
if you do need to park at the de Havilland Campus (rather than using the University's park-and-ride) please e-mail the Chair of the Section, Paul Taylor p.c.taylor@herts.ac.uk using "Parking for RSS Meeting" as the subject of your email.
(de Havilland Campus post-code AL10 9EU for Sat Nav)
