What is it about?
Most business programmes include business statistics and data analysis modules as a core part of their programme. However many business students still find such modules challenging, boring and irrelevant despite the growing demand from employers for graduates analytics skills. This paper tries to understand how business students used a set of learning resources that were designed to aid early stage business student to meet the learning outcomes of a core data analysis module.
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Why is it important?
The demand from employers for graduates with analytics skills is growing, yet most business students do not see their future in this area. It is important for us to understand the effectiveness of our initiatives in improving student learning in the field of analytics.
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We have a better understanding of how different groups of business students use statistics and analytics learning resources.
Paula Carroll
University College Dublin, Ireland
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This page is a summary of: Identifying Patterns of Learner Behaviour: What Business Statistics Students Do with Learning Resources, INFORMS Transactions on Education, September 2017, INFORMS,
DOI: 10.1287/ited.2016.0169.
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