Monday, June 9th, 20255:00 pm – 6:00 pm ET
Presented by: Nicola Sochacka, Kelly Findley
Abstract
This is the second webinar in a series designed for a broad audience of statistics and data science education researchers: young scholars beginning their research journeys, scholars from other disciplines interested in transitioning to statistics and data science education research, and existing statistics and data science researchers looking for new directions for their work.
This session will focus on qualitative research: a family of "small n" research approaches that provide deep insights into human experience. An initial talk will provide an overview of qualitative research, followed by a discussant who will respond and add unique perspectives from the statistics education community. After the formal presentation and discussant contributions, there will be time for audience questions and related discussion.
For reference, the prior webinars in this series are:
What is Scholarship and Research in Statistics and Data Science Education?
Speaker Bio (Nicola Sochacka)
TBA
Discussant Bio (Kelly Findley)
Kelly is a Teaching Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He earned a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Florida State University, focusing his dissertation on the disciplinary perspectives and experiences of graduate teaching assistants in statistics. Kelly primarily conducts qualitative research that seeks to capture rich examples of student thinking. He aims to create work that builds theory regarding both students' intuition about statistical concepts and students’ perspectives of the broader discipline.