Lancaster-Warwick-Stirling node

Development of quantitative training materials using the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England

This project, based in Warwick and led by Steve  Strand, is to support and develop the Quantitative Methods research training that PhD students receive by developing web-based teaching materials, focussed on substantive educational research questions, to widen access to training for new educational researchers. The project will be piloted with PhD students at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick before the website is ultimately made more widely available.

E-learning materials at Lancaster

Some short courses are available for video viewing. These include courses for Mathematics for Statistics as well as more advanced courses such as Generalised Linear Models. They are stored on the Postgraduate Statistics Centre website.

The SIMPLE project

SIMPLE (Statistics Instruction Modules with Purposeful Learning Emphasis) is one of five curriculum development projects recently funded by the ESRC  under a separate grant to encourage quantitative skills development among social science undergraduates.