First Course Requirement—Data
Entry
o I want a first course to be able to do the things I
want students to do:
– Enter and edit data--must be “want to know topic”
– Students can do a small survey to get data on topics
of interest to them
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of interest to them.
o Voter poll
o Attitudes toward diversity issues on campus
o Beliefs about regulating the internet
– Learn how to create a codebook, use codebook and
codebook, compact
o Where possible use “real” data