Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
8-2009
Publisher
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Source Publication
AEJMC Annual Convention
Abstract
Surveys of journalism department heads in 1997 and 2008 showed general support for the need for journalism students to reason with statistical information. Stronger support was associated, in particular, with the perception that this cognitive skill would give students an advantage in the journalism job market. However, many chairs also perceived various constraints to learning, such as student unwillingness to focus on this material and the difficulty most of their faculty would have teaching it. University goals to integrate statistical reasoning into the curriculum were associated with chairs rewarding faculty who did so. Chair responses in 2008 varied little from those gleaned from a similar survey a decade earlier
Recommended Citation
Griffin, Robert J. and Dunwoody, Sharon, "Promises and Challenges of Teaching Statistical Reasoning to Journalism Undergraduates: Twin Surveys of Department Heads, 1997 and 2008 (presentation)" (2009). College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications. 650.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_fac/650
Comments
Author version. "Promises and Challenges of Teaching Statistical Reasoning to Journalism Undergraduates." A Paper presented to the Science Communication Interest Group, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, annual convention. Boston MA, August 2009. Publisher link. © 2009 The Author. Used with permission.