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Brandon, Esther – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
This article describes a 6-week module course called Just Google It! that the author developed and teaches each fall semester. Students who take the course explore personal data collection by private companies, search algorithms, identify implicit bias in the results, and learn the best recommended privacy and security practices. At the end of the…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Course Descriptions, Data Collection, Corporations
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Kafka, Tamar; Economos, Christina; Folta, Sara; Sacheck, Jennifer – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
Objective: To explore children's motivations for and perceived benefits and barriers to nutrition research participation. To explore children's perspectives on how to improve the research experience. Design: Seven focus group sessions were conducted during March 2008 with research participants from a trial that examined the effects of pre-exercise…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Incentives, Focus Groups, Nutrition
Benedict, Larry G.; And Others – 1973
The University of Massachusetts has recently developed and implemented a new student opinion survey system. The concept was based on the perceived need of various university decisionmakers for information on student opinion in making various decisions. The purposes of the project were (1) to develop and provide a system whereby a rapid response…
Descriptors: College Administration, Data Collection, Decision Making, Higher Education