ERIC Number: EJ1218988
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1051-1970
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Supermarkets, Highways, and Natural Gas Production: Statistics and Social Justice
Ross, John; Shelton, Therese
PRIMUS, v29 n3-4 p328-344 2019
We present several modules that address social justice issues in an introductory statistics course. The activities consider possible disparities of housing location, language spoken at home, and job sector as they relate to, respectively, access to healthy foods, air pollution via proximity to traffic, and health concerns via proximity to fracking sites. Statistical content includes basic descriptive statistics, survey design and analysis, contingency tables, independence, various quantiles, and hypothesis testing. We describe the assignments, which satisfy some GAISE Guidelines, and we report on their implementation. Along the way, we share the challenges we faced and overcame as novices in the social justice community.
Descriptors: Statistics, Social Justice, Fuels, Introductory Courses, Proximity, Housing, Food, Nutrition, Pollution, Learning Activities, Student Reaction, College Mathematics, Small Colleges, Liberal Arts, Undergraduate Students, Guidelines, Transportation, Rural Urban Differences, Place of Residence, Retailing, Low Income, College Faculty, Student Projects, Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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