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Learning and teaching with real data: data and resources

Monday 27 April 2009

City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB

This workshop is designed for current and future HE teachers interested in using real data in their research.

Programme

10.15 Coffee and registration
   
10.30

Introduction to ESDS Government survey data and resources

Jo Wathan, ESDS Government

1. Introduction

2. Data and Resources for Learning and Teaching from ESDS Government

   
11.00

Introduction to ESDS Longitudinal and ESDS International survey data and resources

Jack Kneeshaw, ESDS Longitudinal and International

   
11.30

Coffee

   
11.45

Increasing the use of large scale social surveys in undergraduate sociology dissertations

Mark Brown and Jo Wathan, University of Manchester

   
12.15

Contextualising the teaching of quantitative methods in politics

Sean Carey, University of Sheffield

   
12.45

Lunch

   
13.30

Hands-on session

Participants used the following handouts, as well as SPSS workbooks for students, during the hands-on session:

1. Data and Resources for Teaching

2. Finding and obtaining Data for Learning and Teaching in ESDS

3. ESDS Government Teaching Datasets

   
15.00 Tea
   
15.15

Discussion session

An opportunity to share experiences and influence major data support services

   




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