Michael D Gillespie
Biographic Data
| ID | 704755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael D Gillespie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael D |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillespie |
| SIGNATURE | GILLESPIE M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Figures and Charts and Tables, Oh My
Textbooks offer instructors an opportunity to promote data visualization and statistical literacy throughout the sociology curriculum. In this study, we examined 463 data visualizations from 27 textbooks for Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, and intermediate elective courses to illuminate the range of data visualizations and their use of statistical data and numerical variables. We find that textbooks rely on a narrow range of data visu…
Positioning Students to Experience Poverty and Consider Its Implications
This study examined students’ encounters with and responses to poverty-based experiential learning during an undergraduate sociology class. Students’ academic readings and experiencing real-life context were channeled through reflective analysis of public policy’s implications. Students’ writing, which had reflective and diagnostic elements, was scrutinized using qualitative content analysis methods by two trained researchers. Findings revealed d…
Engaging Students in Survey Research Projects across Research Methods and Statistics Courses
One innovative way to help students make sense of survey research has been to create a multifaceted, collaborative assignment that promotes critical thinking, comparative analysis, self-reflection, and statistical literacy. We use a short questionnaire adapted from the Higher Education Research Institute’s Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s Freshman Survey. In our Research Methods course, students begin by administering the brief questi…
The Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery
Cemeteries, via grave markers and burial records, usually offer sufficiently scant data to enable a reconstruction of the communities they represent, but cemeteries of total institutions, here, the Yuma Territorial Prison, often yield even less data. With only the variables of ethincity, sex, prisoner number, date of death, and cause of death, prison conditions were reconstructed for the 111 who died during the prison's operation (1876–1909), and…
The Economic Deterioration of the Family
The "GreatRecession" in theUnitedStates exposed contradictions between the economic well-being of families and capital that developed in the decades prior to this latest downturn. Using social structure of accumulation theory, a qualitative institutional analysis, and quantitative time-series models, this article investigates historically contingent relations between the nature of public assistance, family economic deterioration, and capital accu…
Engaging Students in Survey Research Projects across Research Methods and Statistics Courses
One innovative way to help students make sense of survey research has been to create a multifaceted, collaborative assignment that promotes critical thinking, comparative analysis, self-reflection, and statistical literacy. We use a short questionnaire adapted from the Higher Education Research Institute’s Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s Freshman Survey. In our Research Methods course, students begin by administering the brief questi…
The Economic Deterioration of the Family
The "GreatRecession" in theUnitedStates exposed contradictions between the economic well-being of families and capital that developed in the decades prior to this latest downturn. Using social structure of accumulation theory, a qualitative institutional analysis, and quantitative time-series models, this article investigates historically contingent relations between the nature of public assistance, family economic deterioration, and capital accu…
The Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery
Cemeteries, via grave markers and burial records, usually offer sufficiently scant data to enable a reconstruction of the communities they represent, but cemeteries of total institutions, here, the Yuma Territorial Prison, often yield even less data. With only the variables of ethincity, sex, prisoner number, date of death, and cause of death, prison conditions were reconstructed for the 111 who died during the prison's operation (1876–1909), and…
The Economic Deterioration of the Family
The "GreatRecession" in theUnitedStates exposed contradictions between the economic well-being of families and capital that developed in the decades prior to this latest downturn. Using social structure of accumulation theory, a qualitative institutional analysis, and quantitative time-series models, this article investigates historically contingent relations between the nature of public assistance, family economic deterioration, and capital accu…
Engaging Students in Survey Research Projects across Research Methods and Statistics Courses
One innovative way to help students make sense of survey research has been to create a multifaceted, collaborative assignment that promotes critical thinking, comparative analysis, self-reflection, and statistical literacy. We use a short questionnaire adapted from the Higher Education Research Institute’s Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s Freshman Survey. In our Research Methods course, students begin by administering the brief questi…
Positioning Students to Experience Poverty and Consider Its Implications
This study examined students’ encounters with and responses to poverty-based experiential learning during an undergraduate sociology class. Students’ academic readings and experiencing real-life context were channeled through reflective analysis of public policy’s implications. Students’ writing, which had reflective and diagnostic elements, was scrutinized using qualitative content analysis methods by two trained researchers. Findings revealed d…
Figures and Charts and Tables, Oh My
Textbooks offer instructors an opportunity to promote data visualization and statistical literacy throughout the sociology curriculum. In this study, we examined 463 data visualizations from 27 textbooks for Introduction to Sociology, Social Problems, and intermediate elective courses to illuminate the range of data visualizations and their use of statistical data and numerical variables. We find that textbooks rely on a narrow range of data visu…
Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Curriculum (2 works) · Innovations in Educational Methods (2 works) · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Statistics (2 works)