Resources by Rhys Jones - ��Ӱֱ��

Can I Call You Love or Darling?

Anne Patel — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:27:43 +0000

Dr Rhys Jones’ (University of Auckland) workshop presented ideas and tips on how to use video clips (e.g. YouTube) to kick start student statistical investigations. These included providing tips on how to get students to design an experiment and also how to engage with observational data collection.

The post Can I Call You Love or Darling? appeared first on ��Ӱֱ��.

Big data in Small Classrooms – Jon Fahlander & Rhys Jones

Anne Patel — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:49:48 +0000

Letting Students Conduct Real World Survey Based Research

Jon Fahlander, (Takapuna Grammar School) and Rhys Jones (University of Auckland) have put together the World Value Survey “light” data set. It contains country averages of over 200 variables from 2010-2014 (covering topics like happiness, religiosity, racism – ok with a neighbour of a different race, patriotism – willingness to fight for one’s country, etc, as well as GDP per capita). While there are other country level versions of the data around for research purposes, this version is in an easily accessible format, without any missing values etc, which they hope will make it more suitable for the secondary classroom.��

Their workshop explored ways to let students engage in real world survey based research. The teachers��undertook a mini research project based on their own research question. The session ended with a discussion of the potential benefits and pitfalls of letting students access rich data sets like the World Value Survey.��

Jon and Rhys shared a “cleaned” version of the individual level data for each country, which might work for comparative box plots of, say, the distribution of happiness in NZ and Australia. An issue with that, however, is that the scales aren’t continuous, but at best an ordinal scale from 1 to 10, so it might not suit the multivariate standards.

The data and supporting material – the survey questionnaire, the Stata syntax used for data management,�� can be found on the website��

Link to Stats day presentation:��

Please leave a comment below if you use this dataset and let us know what worked and what questions students posed.�� Jon would be really keen to hear how it went and to publish student work on their website, so please get in touch with him or Rhys via the website.

The post Big data in Small Classrooms – Jon Fahlander & Rhys Jones appeared first on ��Ӱֱ��.

The Joy of data analysis and critical thinking – a Welsh perspective

Anne Patel — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:53:09 +0000

Rhys Jones (The University of Auckland) gave the Keynote at the 2017 Statistics teachers day. The Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification (WBQ) has been widely adopted by most secondary schools within Wales. In year 12 and 13, 50% of the qualification requires students to collect primary data and also conduct secondary data analysis to write a 5000-word research report. To help teachers develop effective teaching strategies and resources, Welsh Government funding enabled key networking events to establish a WBQ teacher conference at Cardiff University. This talk will describe the processes involved in supporting teachers’ delivery of critical thinking and data analysis techniques, that underpin essential elements of the WBQ qualification.

Resources developed in collaboration with university academic staff and secondary school teachers will also be discussed and are available from��https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/conferences/welsh-baccalaureate-conference-2017/sessions

The Joy of data analysis and critical thinking RJ��(Statistics day 2017 Presentation)

Rhys also recommended the following reading regarding the Q-step course in Manchester to further understand how collaboration, in particular embedding statistical methods into industry domains can enhance learning for students and teachers.

https://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ16(1)_Carter.pdf

Rhys Jones is a Professional Teaching Fellow at the Department of Statistics,��University of Auckland. Prior to this appointment, he was a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods (FE – Further Education) and also a member of the Cardiff Q-Step team at Cardiff University. As the FE lead, Rhys worked across the UK with schools, colleges, the Welsh Government and awarding bodies to raise the profile of contextualised statistics at key stages 4 and 5 (year 11-13). Rhys has been involved in developing new accreditation standards for degree courses with statistical content, as well as assessing employability skills needed by external agencies such as the Office for National Statistics (UK), the Welsh Government and the Royal Voluntary Sector (UK).

The post The Joy of data analysis and critical thinking – a Welsh perspective appeared first on ��Ӱֱ��.