Chair support, faculty entrepreneurship, and the teaching of statistical reasoning to journalism undergraduates in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7478490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert J Griffin (0000-0002-1943-9537, Marquette University, corresponding author), Sharon Dunwoody (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-118 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464884915593247 |
| OpenAlex | W1833287854 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 12 |
Statistical reasoning is not the same as doing calculations. Instead, it involves cognitive skills such as the ability to think critically and systematically with data, skills important for everyday news work and essential for the era of data journalism. Twin surveys of the chairs of undergraduate journalism programs in the United States, conducted 11 years apart, revealed that those who perceived benefits from statistical reasoning instruction were more likely to reward entrepreneurship (faculty attempts to integrate this instruction into their classes), but with slow gains over time in the fairly small number of such faculty. Being consistent with university goals in statistical reasoning instruction appeared to motivate chairs’ reward decisions in both waves. Increasingly, they took into account what they saw as the general value of statistical reasoning for their students and the competitive edge it could give them in the journalism job market. Perceived constraints to teaching this content had no apparent overall impact on reward decisions
Cognition · Entrepreneurship · Journalism · Mathematics education · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Statistics · Value (mathematics · Innovations in Educational Methods · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Mathematics · Psychology · Statistics Education and Methodologies
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |