Jordan, K. L., & Corvellec, M., & Wickes, E. D., & Zimmerman, N. B., & Duckles, J. M., & Teal, T. K. (2018, June), Short-format Workshops Build Skills and Confidence for Researchers to Work with Data  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah. 10.18260/1-2--30960

\bibitem{asee_peer_30960}
  Jordan, K. L., \& Corvellec, M., \& Wickes, E. D., \& Zimmerman, N. B., \& Duckles, J. M., \& Teal, T. K. (2018, June), \emph{Short-format Workshops Build Skills and Confidence for Researchers to Work with Data}
  Paper presented at 2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah.
  10.18260/1-2--30960

Kari L. Jordan Ph.D., Marianne Corvellec, Elizabeth D. Wickes, Naupaka B. Zimmerman, Jonah M. Duckles, and Tracy K. Teal.  "Short-format Workshops Build Skills and Confidence for Researchers to Work with Data".  2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2018.  https://peer.asee.org/30960 Internet.  09 Mar, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_30960}
  Kari L. Jordan Ph.D., Marianne Corvellec, Elizabeth D. Wickes, Naupaka B. Zimmerman, Jonah M. Duckles, and Tracy K. Teal.
  "Short-format Workshops Build Skills and Confidence for Researchers to Work with Data".
  \emph{2018 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Salt Lake City, Utah, 2018, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2018.
  https://peer.asee.org/30960 Internet.  09 Mar, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Training for data skills is more critical now than ever before. For many researchers in industry and academic environments, a lack of training in data management, munging, analysis and visualization could lead to a lack of funding to support sustainable projects. Today’s researchers are often learning ‘as they go’ and need the flexibility of short, or self-paced learning experiences. Research results in educational pedagogy, however, stress the importance of guided instruction and learner-instructor interaction, which contrasts the need for ‘just in time’ training.

We’ve taken a distinctive approach to this problem, combining the power of guided instruction with the flexibility of short, focused learning experiences. Two-day, interactive, hands-on coding workshops train researchers to work with data, and have reached over 34,000 researchers, ranging from biologists to physicists to engineers and economists. Researchers have benefited from evidence-based teaching approaches to learning data organization (spreadsheets), cleaning (OpenRefine), management (SQL), analysis and visualization (R and Python).

This paper presents the long-term survey results showing the impact that short-format workshops have for increasing learner's skills and confidence in their coding abilities. Results show these two-day coding workshops increase researchers’ daily programming usage, and sixty-five percent of respondents have gained confidence in working with data and open source tools as a result of completing the workshop. The long-term assessment data showed a decline in the percentage of respondents that 'have not been using these tools' (-11.1%), and an increase in the percentage of those who now use the tools on a daily basis (+14.5%).
AU  - Kari L. Jordan Ph.D.
AU  - Marianne Corvellec
AU  - Elizabeth D. Wickes
AU  - Naupaka B. Zimmerman
AU  - Jonah M. Duckles
AU  - Tracy K. Teal
CY  - Salt Lake City, Utah
DA  - 2018/06/23
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Short-format Workshops Build Skills and Confidence for Researchers to Work with Data
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/30960
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--30960
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