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ERIC Number: EJ1435704
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1055-3096
EISSN: EISSN-2574-3872
Teaching Tip: Teaching about Ambiguity in Analytics: A Student-Centered Semester-Long Project to Raise Awareness of Ambiguity by Predicting Student Exam Performance
Earl H. McKinney Jr.; Simon Ginzinger
Journal of Information Systems Education, v35 n3 p249-260 2024
The growing use of analytics has increased the demand for more highly data literate graduates. Awareness of ambiguity in data has been suggested as a new data literacy skill. Here, we describe a student-centered semester-long project that can be used to teach this skill in an introductory analytics or database course. The project requires students to anticipate and collect survey data about themselves and their fellow students that can be used to predict student exam performance later in the course. We summarize relevant prior research on ambiguity, describe the project in which ambiguity is explained and applied, present a preliminary analysis of the lesson's impact on student awareness of ambiguity, and discuss implications and future research.
Journal of Information Systems Education. e-mail: editor@jise.org; Web site: http://www.jise.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A