Teaching Quantitative Methods Workshop 1: Teaching Introductory Quantitative Methods
Dates: : 27th – 28th March 2012
Times: Day 1: 12.00-17.30; Day 2: 9.00-17.00
Speakers: Prof. Michael Hout, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Prof. Theodore P. Gerber; Department of Sociology, Wisconsin-Madison; Prof. John Maccinnes, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh; Prof. Richard L. Zijdeman, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University; Prof. Chris Wild, Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland; Prof. Neville Davies, Centre Director, The Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education.
Location: Lecture Theatre, Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
For speaker bios please click here.
Overview
The four workshops in the Research Development Initiative (RDI) series are designed to cover both QM and substantive modules at each level of the UG curriculum using a ‘two-way embedding’ approach, i.e. embedding substantive examples in QM teaching and QM in substantive modules. We will explore how this can be achieved throughout the series, which will combine workshops on QM teaching, as well as ones on selected substantive areas of sociology such as sociology of education, social inequality and stratification, political sociology. We bring together a group of international distinguished scholars with extensive experience in QM teaching and provide an excellent opportunity for pedagogic exchange.
Each workshop is designed to be stand-alone. Participants can sign up for single workshops but enrolling in the whole series would maximise the benefits. All workshops are supported by our course website where participants can continue to exchange ideas and materials. are also encouraged to submit questions and topics they wish to discuss at the workshop in advance of each event.
Our first 2-day workshop in the RDI series focuses on introductory level Research Methods modules. We begin with a brief introduction of QM teaching in the US and Dutch UG curriculum. Through a unique blend of master classes and break-out sessions, it provides face-to-face interaction with overseas quantitative teachers in Europe and the US, we explore what QM content should feature in the first year UG curriculum and how best to deliver and assess it. . Sample materials and recordings of master classes will be made available via the course website accessible to course participants exclusively, where ongoing exchange is supported throughout the workshop series.
For more information on the Teaching Quantitative Methods Series, please click here.
Fee Information
The fee for the workshop is £60. All four workshops in the series can be booked for £200.
All fees include event materials, lunch and refreshments. They do not include travel and accommodation costs.
Fee waiver places and bursaries
ESRC funding has enabled us to offer a limited number of fee waiver places and bursaries to early career researchers and QM teachers who have been in post for no more than five years at a UK HEI. You will need to demonstrate involvement in QM teaching at the undergraduate level. Each bursary includes a one-off payment of £500 (payable at the end of the workshop series following attendance at all four events) plus a maximum contribution of £150 per workshop towards your travel costs and accommodation.
Application for a fee-waiver place and bursary can be made by completing the relevant section on the event registration form.
How to book
Please click here to download a booking form.
For further information please contact WISERD.events@cardiff.ac.uk
