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Kalinowski, Pav; Lai, Jerry; Fidler, Fiona; Cumming, Geoff – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2010
Our research in statistical cognition uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. A mixed method approach makes our research more comprehensive, and provides us with new directions, unexpected insights, and alternative explanations for previously established concepts. In this paper, we review four statistical cognition studies that used mixed…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Qualitative Research, Psychologists, Statistical Analysis
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Chen, Qi; Guang-Chun, Ge – English for Specific Purposes, 2007
We conducted a lexical study on the word frequency and the text coverage of the 570 word families from Coxhead's Academic Word List (AWL) in medical research articles (RAs) based on a corpus of 50 medical RAs written in English with 190425 running words. By computer analysis, we found that the text coverage of the AWL words accounted for around…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Word Lists, Word Frequency, English for Academic Purposes