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Title: Using Web-based Software to Promote Data Literacy in a Large Enrollment Undergraduate Course

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: For the past two years, UC Berkeley's Library Data Lab has played a key instructional rolefor a large enrollment undergraduate Economic Demography course. In addition toproviding assistance to students in locating and evaluating data sets for their term projects,the Lab provides training and support in the use of SDA, a web-based data analysisapplication freely available on a growing number of data archive websites. This paper willfocus on the rationale for using SDA, particularly how it helps us achieve certain dataliteracy goals, and offer practical advice to those interested in pursuing this type ofinstruction at their own institutions.

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Authors: Dekker, Harrison

Conference Name: IFLA General Conference

Publisher Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

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Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Other

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