Quantative Reasoning
Posted by mightylibrarian on February 20, 2008
Last week I attended a workshop on Quantitative Reasoning at the Collaboration conference on critical thinking. QR boils down to teaching students how to properly use quantitative information in their papers and projects. Some assignments do not require numeric data and students may or may not use quantitative data for this type of assignment. Other assignments require the use of graphics and data, while others are data-driven research assignments. The discussion centered on how to create QR across the curriculum, similar and writing across the curriculum or information literacy across the curriculum. From the presenters research, it seems many students do not know how to properly incorporate statistics and/or create graphic representations of statistics to back their arguments. This site from Western Washington University provides a good overview of QR.
