Vassar College Context part of QuIRK:PKAL Workshop 08
1. What is the status of Quantitative Reasoning programming on your campus? One of Vassar's requirements for graduation is successful completion of one of the courses designated a "quantitative analysis ...

Assigning Writing: Give your students a "RAFT" and a "TIP" part of QuIRK:For Carleton Faculty
In an assignment handout, explain: Role (or Purpose): Helps student understand the purpose for writing (inform? analyze? persuade?) Helps student understand the impact the piece of writing is supposed to have on ...

Examples part of QuIRK:Curricular Materials:Quantitative Writing
This collection of activities from Carleton College faculty is a subset of the larger set of examples available through the National Numeracy Network. Skip to search results Skip to search facet filtersSkip to ...

Course Revision Support Materials part of QuIRK:For Carleton Faculty
On-Campus Consultants Carleton faculty and staff have volunteered to assist faculty at Carleton as they work on QR-related projects and a list of faculty who have completed revisions in the past. LTC Presentation ...

Quantitative Reasoning University part of QuIRK:For Carleton Faculty
A workshop for faculty featuring the best of Carleton's Quirk workshops for faculty. See the QRU Course Catalog (below). Quantitative Competency Made Simple: 10 Questions to Ask about Numbers Neil Lutsky, ...

Upcoming QuIRK-Sponsored Professional Development Workshops part of QuIRK:For Carleton Faculty
None at this time. Workshop on Bayesian Statistics December 13-14, 2010 This program was led by Carleton mathematician Robert Dobrow and introduced Bayesian statistical methods along with an introduction to ...

Writing With Numbers part of QuIRK:For Carleton Faculty
This workshop was led by John Bean (Seattle University), author of Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings (Longman, 2004). The purpose of the workshop was to help faculty prepare students to present arguments ...

QuIRK-Sponsored LTC Presentations part of QuIRK:For Carleton Faculty
(Carleton username and password required to view videos) "The Past, Present, and Future of Grade Inflation," with George Shuffelton, Jim Fergerson, Cliff Clark, and Amy Csizmar Dalal of Carleton College, ...

Research Findings Based on Assessment Data part of QuIRK:QR Assessment
Findings from Assessment of Student Work Prior to QuIRK Among the most startling findings was how infrequently students used numeric evidence when such evidence would have powerfully set the context for an ...

QuIRK Goals for Student Learning part of QuIRK:QR Assessment
QuIRK sets programming priorities by identifying needs through the assessment of student performance. In the summer of 2004, the QuIRK Steering Committee read a sample of papers drawn from 100 student writing ...