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View article: Educating students about the ethical principles underlying the interpretation of infographics
Educating students about the ethical principles underlying the interpretation of infographics Open
Infographics are visual storytelling techniques used to communicate complex information. However, infographics can be misleading if they are not created ethically. When universities teach how to create infographics, they often do so withou…
View article: The Impact of Work-Integrated Learning on Academic Workload: Drivers, Time and Tasks Involved
The Impact of Work-Integrated Learning on Academic Workload: Drivers, Time and Tasks Involved Open
Work-integrated learning (WIL) is recognised as a valuable pedagogical strategy for learning, and for providing students with work experience during their degree program. Despite the benefits, such programs are recognised as being more tim…
View article: Comparison of Student Engagement in a Large First-Year Statistics Course between Flipped and Face-to-Face Instruction
Comparison of Student Engagement in a Large First-Year Statistics Course between Flipped and Face-to-Face Instruction Open
The term "flipped classroom" has gained momentum with academics at universities thanks to the pandemic and technological advances. In a flipped classroom, students gain foundational knowledge, depicted at the lower level of Bloom's taxonom…
View article: Designing a feedback framework to reconnect students with learning in a game-based learning environment
Designing a feedback framework to reconnect students with learning in a game-based learning environment Open
Feedback has great potential to benefit students’ learning and skill development. Feedback designed in an effective manner can help improve a student’s current performance by supporting their sense of curiosity and motivation and fostering…
View article: Statistics Projects and Their Importance in Developing Written Communication and Dissemination Skills
Statistics Projects and Their Importance in Developing Written Communication and Dissemination Skills Open
Higher education is changing with soft skills being implemented into the curriculum to prepare students for life after university. Students can be taught some of the soft skills by using a final-year, project-based assessment. One of the m…
View article: Learning From COVID-19
Learning From COVID-19 Open
People’s lives have been severely disrupted by COVID-19, with high numbers in hospitals and many deaths after the initial outbreak in China. If the efforts of many statistics educators were fulfilled to increase the number of statistically…
View article: WORK INTEGRATED LEARNING IN STATISTICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE AND FAIR ASSESSMENT OF AUTHENTIC PROJECTS
WORK INTEGRATED LEARNING IN STATISTICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE AND FAIR ASSESSMENT OF AUTHENTIC PROJECTS Open
Work integrated learning (WIL) has been the norm in disciplines such as medicine, teacher education and engineering , however it has not been implemented until recently in statistics and not for every student in computer science education.…
View article: EDITORIAL: BUILDING FUTURE GENERATIONS OF STATISTICIANS – WHO CARES?
EDITORIAL: BUILDING FUTURE GENERATIONS OF STATISTICIANS – WHO CARES? Open
First published February 2020 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
View article: A Structural Model to Explain Influences of Organisational Communication on the Organisational Commitment of Primary School Staff
A Structural Model to Explain Influences of Organisational Communication on the Organisational Commitment of Primary School Staff Open
Organisational commitment is a job attitude frequently linked to employee morale, motivation and behaviour. High organisational commitment has been associated with increased effort and productivity, while low commitment has been associated…
View article: Impacts of School Communication on Job Satisfaction in Australian Primary Schools: A Structural Equation Model
Impacts of School Communication on Job Satisfaction in Australian Primary Schools: A Structural Equation Model Open
While there has been research into the ways some aspects of organizational communication may influence job satisfaction, it has not been comprehensive, and very little work has been conducted in schools. This study investigates the influen…
View article: Exploring the influence of a user-specific explainable virtual advisor on health behaviour change intentions
Exploring the influence of a user-specific explainable virtual advisor on health behaviour change intentions Open
Virtual advisors (VAs) are being utilised almost in every service nowadays from entertainment to healthcare. To increase the user’s trust in these VAs and encourage the users to follow their advice, they should have the capability of expla…
View article: Use of gamification to enhance curiosity and engagement through feedback strategies
Use of gamification to enhance curiosity and engagement through feedback strategies Open
Curiosity is a significant educational component behind human learning and is vital for a learner to sustain motivation and engagement in both face-to-face and online learning environments. Positive feedback has the potential to support le…
View article: Differential kynurenine pathway metabolism in highly-metastatic aggressive breast cancer subtypes: beyond IDO1-induced immunosuppression
Differential kynurenine pathway metabolism in highly-metastatic aggressive breast cancer subtypes: beyond IDO1-induced immunosuppression Open
Background: Immunotherapy has recently been proposed as a promising treatment to stop breast cancer (BrCa) progression and metastasis. However, there has been limited success in the treatment of BrCa with immune checkpoint inhibitors. This…
View article: Adapting a Virtual Advisor’s Verbal Conversation Based on Predicted User Preferences: A Study of Neutral, Empathic and Tailored Dialogue
Adapting a Virtual Advisor’s Verbal Conversation Based on Predicted User Preferences: A Study of Neutral, Empathic and Tailored Dialogue Open
Virtual agents that improve the lives of humans need to be more than user-aware and adaptive to the user’s current state and behavior. Additionally, they need to apply expertise gained from experience that drives their adaptive behavior ba…
View article: Differential kynurenine pathway metabolism in highly-metastatic aggressive breast cancer subtypes: beyond IDO1-induced immunosuppression
Differential kynurenine pathway metabolism in highly-metastatic aggressive breast cancer subtypes: beyond IDO1-induced immunosuppression Open
Background: Immunotherapy has recently been proposed as a promising treatment to stop breast cancer (BrCa) progression and metastasis. However, there has been limited success in the treatment of BrCa with immune checkpoint inhibitors. This…
View article: Editorial and Front Matter
Editorial and Front Matter Open
First published February 2020 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
View article: STATISTICS: YOUR TICKET TO ANYWHERE
STATISTICS: YOUR TICKET TO ANYWHERE Open
“We have too many first-year statistics students but too few who choose to major in statistics” is a common complaint among academics in the discipline of statistics, and our department is no exception. Many non-statistics academics apprec…
View article: Dealing with the increased assessment workload of work- integrated learning in a capstone unit for an undergraduate major in statistics
Dealing with the increased assessment workload of work- integrated learning in a capstone unit for an undergraduate major in statistics Open
Bringing real problems into curriculum is not an easy job but assessing such student work is even harder, especially when universities are run like businesses where academics are given only limited hours to assess student work. The literat…
View article: Risk, uncertainty & decisions about australian retirement village residency for seniors
Risk, uncertainty & decisions about australian retirement village residency for seniors Open
“Retirement Villages” (RVs) are a common form of housing for older people in Australia. RV contracts are very complex. RV residency terminates on death or ill health. At Macquarie we developed a free online RV financial calculator. This is…
View article: Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Profile Among Australian Vegetarian and Nonvegetarian Teenagers
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Profile Among Australian Vegetarian and Nonvegetarian Teenagers Open
Atherosclerosis develops over a long period of time and often begins in childhood. The goal of this study was to make a cross-sectional assessment of the pattern of cardiovascular disease risk factors among Australian vegetarian (n = 49) a…