Teaching quantitative design methods through exposition

Lewthwaite, Sarah (2021) Teaching quantitative design methods through exposition (Case Studies in Research Methods Pedagogy) National Centre for Research Methods, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton 2pp.

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Abstract

There are different pedagogical traditions surrounding the teaching of quantitative methods. This case study comprises a detailed account of pedagogy for science-based quantitative methods from an intensive international seasonal school. The case study draws upon one teacher interview, eight hours of classroom observation, written field-notes, teaching materials, two short student interviews and informal research conversations with students across the sessions. In this case, the teacher, who I call Larry, is lecturing on quantitative design within a wider context of hands-on and computational sessions. Here, Larry’s pedagogic approach is one of exposition. However, this nominally didactic teaching – the lecture – is shown to convey rich pedagogical strategies and tactics, particularly in terms of pedagogical rhetoric. The pedagogic hook (and locus) of ‘teaching through data’, a preeminent facet of quantitative teaching [1], is clearly visible, even at this conceptual and discursive content stage as theory is constantly drawn back to data.

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