bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
socialist city
Authors: Grigoryeva Elena
Published: August 2021

The period of the “socialist project” occupied the biggest part of the 20th century. Hugescale social experiments have greatly shaped the present-day city’s appearance. The second half of the 20th century evidenced an unprecedented volume of housing and industrial technologies in house construction and design. Most of us, today’s citizens, live in the neighborhoods and houses built during the socialist era.Belgrade and Split, Sverdlovsk, Sevastopol, Magnitogorsk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk, Odessa, Moscow – all the cities represented in this issue demonstrate the achievements of the period of the “socialist project”.Having defined the historical heritage as a phenomenon of the socio-economic development, the civil society of Irkutsk pointed out again the urgency of this issue. It also concerns other cities that respect their history. Without history, without heritage, there is no future. Including the heritage of the 20th century.We would like to devote the main topic of the issue to recollections of how residential neighborhoods were formed in socialist cities, what people and what processes defined that formation, in which cases the ideology influenced the appearance of cities, and in which cases cities grew and developed according to their internal regularities. The purpose is not only to pay our respect to wonderful masters, but also to learn the humanistic approaches to space arrangement from them again. It is a good thing in the times of domination of completely different goals related to making a quick profit. It is a good thing for all.
International Architecture News
Authors: Grigorieva Anna
Published: August 2021

The news section announces the topics of the UIA 2021RIO World Congress of Architects, its prizes and the jury. The news also presents the winners of the 2020/2021 UIA Friendly and Inclusive Spaces Awards and announces the 5th International Baku Architecture Award.
ArchBukhta. Teleportation-2021, Art-Residence "Port Olkhon"
Authors: Fomina Olga , Malinovich Roman
Published: August 2021

The 15th All-Russian architectural festival “ArchBukhta. Teleportation” was held on Olkhon Island from 10 to 15 March. More than one hundred people from seven regions of Russia, from the first organizers to first-year students, took part in the competition. The article formulates the main idea of the Festival – to create art objects from local materials. The article also presents the results of the Festival: 20 art objects arranged on the territory of the Art Residence “Port Olkhon”. Five of them received prizes.
Noncity. Part 2
Authors: Bokov Andrey
Published: August 2021

Andrey Bokov explores the Soviet space and its three stages, its stable characteristics and evolution of relationship between a city and a village. He evaluates the significance of production for Soviet cities and analyzes the evolution of the social structure of the Soviet society. Bokov highlights the changes in the role of Soviet architects and architectural language and the impact of the post-war experience of the West. The author identifies specific characteristics of post-Soviet cities of the RF and the relationship between business, power and society. He underlines the lack of systematic approach in the post-Soviet spatial and social development. He suggests possible ways for further transformation of the structure of the Russian space.
The role of I. V. Stalin in the history of architecture
Authors: Rappaport Alexander
Published: August 2021

We have long regarded beating babies of avant-garde to be the most serious cultural crime, which threw the USSR back from the front line of architecture by 20-30 years and made them start from the beginning in 1960. If Stalin had seen a mainstream for architecture in that advanced idea and supported it, we would have had quite a different Soviet architecture today. His choice put an end to the constructivism utopia, according to which architecture would become a technical means of life organization. Ginzburg’s constructivism of the 1920s was a clear program of the common style and environmental standard, which could make an oppressive impression in the hands of third-rate doers. Unrealized opportunities of constructivism now don’t look so desirable. The paradoxicality of choosing academism and Stalin’s Empire style has probably another logic, a logic of reflexive frauds and false pretenses. However, if constructivism had remained as a general line for about 30 years, we would have had a kind of culture resembling Orwell more than anything else.
Avant-Garde as Method: VKhUTEMAS and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930
Authors: Bokov Anna
Published: August 2021

The book presents a new study on the Soviet Union's Higher Art and Technical Studios, known as Vkhutemas, and their pioneering curriculum that has been a source of inspiration for generations of architects, designers, and artists until the present day. The processes of institutionalizing the avant-garde, integrating architecture and science, teaching and praxis are analyzed. The experimental methodology of the pedagogical process is highlighted.
a garden city and/or a socialist city?
Authors: Lidin Konstantin
Published: August 2021

The concept of a socialist city took shape in a keen struggle between supporters of the idea of a garden city and adherents of the social city. Every movement has an officially recognized founder, its own philosophy and program. The confrontation of concepts in the Soviet architecture has acquired an irreconcilable and uncompromising character. But to what extent are these movements really antagonistic?

The issue is considered on the basis of both historical and theoretical materials and on specific examples of urban planning solutions in the cities of Eastern Siberia, the Urals and Kuzbass.

We continue to focus on strengthening the factual basis of the history of this still unexplored period. In the articles about Sevastopol and Magnitogorsk, a number of documents are published for the first time and thus are introduced into the scientific discourse.
The binary logic and the socialist city
Authors: Lidin Konstantin , Meerovich Mark , Malko Anastasia
Published: August 2021

The discussion between the followers of Howard’s garden city concept and supporters of the Fordian social city concept is considered on the basis of archival documents. The discussion took place in the 1920s and ended with the administrative suppression of one of the parties, which largely determined the ways of further development of the socialist urban planning. The article expresses the thesis that the opposing concepts were not antagonists at all. The development of architecture over the next hundred years has shown that both concepts are successfully developing, complementing each other.
The binary star
Authors: Bagina Elena
Published: August 2021

Baroque and classicism were called a binary star. In the national architecture, the avant-garde and neoclassicism can be also called a binary star. The model of succession of styles in architecture does not reflect the real situation in the 1920-1950s. Neoclassicism and different movements of “contemporary architecture” run parallel to each other both in the West and in the USSR. In the 1920s, the avant-garde was brighter, while In the 1930-1950s in the USSR – neoclassicism. “The new world of socialism” was observed in the patterns of “contemporary architecture” by party ideologists headed by Lev Trotsky. In the 1930s, the political situation changed, and the patterns of the “new world” came down to earth and acquired historical roots. The interaction of the avant-garde and neoclassicism produced a unique style of the epoch. Unfortunately, the monuments of that epoch decay very quickly.
M. Ya. Ginzburg: Stylistics (1935–1945)
Authors: Zavadovsky Petr
Published: August 2021

The third article of the series devoted to the stylistics of late constructivism and the role of I. I. Leonidov in its formation reviews the use and transformation of Leonidov’s patterns in the late creative works by M. Ya. Ginzburg (1935-1945). The study includes little-known and previously unpublished materials and the author’s reconstructions.
The role of healthcare facilities in the cityscape of post-war Sevastopol
Authors: Vassiliev Nikolai , Ovsyannikova Elena
Published: August 2021

Elaboration of architectural and landscape projects in Sevastopol is first considered through the example of healthcare facilities. Sevastopol hospitals were designed with a pavilion planning system and high-quality landscaping. They became part of a number of residential neighborhoods created in a similar way to garden cities during the revival of the hero city after the Great Patriotic War.
“Here we’ll be given a good house…” (the 1930s)
Authors: Lisitsina Yana , Lisitsin Vasily
Published: August 2021

Basing on the archive documents related to the Stakhanovism in the East-Siberian region, the authors study the dwelling and household conditions of the foremost workers’ life in 1935-1936. The historical materials, including letters, memoirs, reports etc., show the course and results of the housing and social policy of the Soviet government through specific examples.
Landscape after the battle
Authors: Kudryavtsev Alexander
Published: August 2021

The author reviews the history of the birth of the master plan for the socialist city of Magnitogorsk in connection with new publications and new design materials. An attempt is made to expand the boundaries of the version of the competition for Soviet and German specialists, the value of all planning projects created in the 1929-1930s is highlighted, and the need for preservation and development of the quarter No. 1 of the Socialist City as a world famous urban planning monument is again pointed out.
a modernist city
Authors: Grigoryeva Elena , Lidin Konstantin
Published: August 2021

The late stage in the development of a socialist city in the second half of the twentieth century is usually attributed to the phenomena of the “modernist wave”. This period saw the highest rise of the Irkutsk school of architecture, and we continue to publish materials about the wonderful Irkutsk sixtiers and their best urban planning projects, which have not lost their relevance. The lively, modern character of many aspects of the socialist city is discussed in articles from Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk. The article on updating Cheryomushki in Odessa is a continuation of a series of materials of the international Russian-German-Ukrainian project on a comparative study of the socialist legacy in the cities of the three countries. And the Winter University demonstrates attempts to apply modern standards of the integrated development of territories to the modernist districts of Irkutsk.
Boulevards of Architects
Authors: Grigoryeva Elena , Lidin Konstantin
Published: August 2021

The modernist development of Irkutsk and related issues of its toponymy are considered. The impact of the Irkutsk architectural school of the 1960s, its founders V. Pavlov, V. Voronezhsky and V. Bukh in the development of urban planning practice is emphasized. The necessity to introduce the names of the "sixtiers"into the toponymy of Irkutsk is substantiated. It is also necessary to continue the implementation of their projects, which will allow solving urgent tasks related to the improvement of the boulevards – the main pedestrian axes, forming human flows on them, and thereby ensuring the development of small and medium-sized businesses on these axes.
Krasnoyarsk’s right bank. Industrialization heritage
Authors: Blyankinshtein Olga , Kiseleva Olesya , Uspenskaya Olga
Published: August 2021

The study is based on the historical analysis and archival photographic materials of the Krasnoyarsk Museum of Local Lore. The article is focused on residential architecture and its significance. It describes the housing development of Krasnoyarsk’s right bank in the 1960-1970s. It presents the examples of residential buildings of historical and cultural value. The article reviews the formation of the ensembles of the prospect named after the newspaper “Krasnoyarsk Worker”, the “Stone Quarter”, the Bridgehead Square and other areas of Krasnoyarsk’s right bank.
Russian engineers – builders of banks in Manchuria
Authors: Bazilevich Mikhail , A. Kim Anton
Published: August 2021

The article tells us about Russian engineers of different specializations, who worked in the north-east of China, in Manchuria, in the first half of the 20th century, and whose professional activities were related to building banking institutions. It provides brief information about V.I. Baby, S.A. Vensan, G.V. Golovanov, P. L. Egorov, V.I. Kalabanovsky, Yu.K. KeroOr, I.I. Korablev, V.V. Koryagin, S.I. Maslenikov, S.N. Peshkov, V.A. Rassushin, P. S. Safaryants, D.V. Uskov, B.A. Chernyavsky and P.A. Shchelkov. The article highlights the impact of their activities on the development of architecture of financial institutions, as well as on introduction of engineering innovations into the building practice in Manchuria.
The House of Diligence in Rostov-on-Don
Authors: Petrusenko Yuliya , Ivanova-Ilicheva Anna
Published: August 2021

The aim of the study is to review the architectural-artistic, design and functional features of charity institutions through the example of the House of Diligence named after P. R. Maksimov, as well as peculiarities of the architect Nikolai Matveevich Sokolov’s creative method. The study was based on the historical analysis of P. R. Maksimov House of Diligence, archival and on-site investigations, and photofixation of the object. The article introduces new factual data and systematizes information on N. M. Sokolov’s creative legacy.
Molecular mechanism of glucocorticoid-induced hyperglycemia
Authors: Sari Destika Ambar , Samodra Galih , Kusuma Ikhwan Yuda
Published: August 2021

Glucocorticoids are widely used as strong anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive drugs to treat various diseases. However, the use of glucocorticoids can cause several side effects, such as hyperglycemia. This review aims to discuss the effect of glucocorticoids on increasing glucose in molecular levels based on literature studies. A literature searching was carried out on the PubMed, Science Direct, and Google Scholar databases published in 2010-2020. Glucocorticoids can cause an increase in blood glucose levels by several mechanisms. In the liver, glucocorticoids increase endogenous plasma glucose and stimulate gluconeogenesis. Glucocorticoids increase the production of non-esterified fatty acids which affect the signal transduction of insulin receptor substrate-1 in skeletal muscle. In adipose, glucocorticoids increase lipolysis and visceral adiposity through increased transcription and expression of protein adipose triglyceride lipase and hormone-sensitive lipase. In pancreatic beta cells, glucocorticoids directly inhibit the beta cell response to glucose through the role of protein kinase B and protein kinase C. At the molecular level, glucocorticoids can cause hyperglycemia through mechanisms in the liver, skeletal muscle tissue, adipose tissue, and pancreatic beta cells.
Exploiting the Evolutionary Trade-offs of Bacteria Through Phage Therapy and Antibiotics
Authors:   University of Toronto Schools, Bhogal Jaden
Published: August 2021

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of a microorganism to resist antimicrobial treatments against it, resulting in persisted and oftentimes lethal infection in individuals. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that AMR has the potential to skyrocket into one of the largest global health issues humanity has ever faced. In their 2018 fact sheet, they mention how it will cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050, as well as US $100 trillion in economic losses (World Health Organization, 2018). AMR has greatly reduced the efficacy of antibiotics in treating bacterial infections. According to Benno. H. ter Kuile and colleagues from the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety at the University of Amsterdam, most AMR is caused by practices in the agricultural industry, making it an extremely complex and difficult problem to solve regardless of its urgency (ter Kuile, Kraupner & Brul, 2016). However, Kaitlyn Kortright and colleagues from Yale University and the Yale School of Medicine, posit that phage therapy - a novel medical treatment with renewed interest in Western medicine - has large potential as an effective solution for antimicrobial resistance in bacteria (Kortright, Chan, Koff & Turner, 2019).
Model Kepemimpinan Tuan Guru di Pondok Pesantren Kabupaten Lombok Timur NTB
Authors: Makki Muhammad
Published: August 2021

Peneltian ini fokus mengkaji sejarah kepemimpinan Kharismatik, model kepemimpinan, dan model manajerial/manajemen ketenagan SDM oleh Tuanguru di pondok pesantren Kabupaten Lombok Timur NTB, fokus ini  bertujuan untuk: menemukan model kepemimpinan dan manajemen ketenagaan SDM yang tepat diterapkan di pondok pesantren. Kerangka teori yang digunakan teori tentang hirarki kepemimpinan, teori kepemimpinan spiritual, kepemimpinan manajerial. Untuk menganalisis fokus masalah, digunakan pendekatan fenomenologi. Penelitian ini menemukan: (a) berdirinya pondok pesantren dibangun dengan modal kepercayaan dan kharismatik, spiritualitas Tuanguru(b) Model kepemimpinan di pondok pesantren, model kepemimpinan yang kolektif-demokratis.  (c)  manajemen SDM dilakukan dengan memperhatikan latar belakang pendidikan, kompetensi dan rasio kebutuhan pengembangan pondok Pesantren
Sentetik Tohum
Authors: ERDEM Meltem , UYSAL Hüseyin
Published: August 2021

Sentetik tohum, besin maddesi ve koruyucu bileşikler içeren özel maddelerle kaplanmış somatik embriyolardır. Sentetik tohum üretimi, canlı tohum üretemeyen bitkiler için elverişlidir. Sentetik tohumdan bitki elde edilmesi, ilk kez doku kültüründen elde edilen somatik embriyodan suyun uzaklaştırılması yoluyla yapılmıştır. Somatik embriyo kaplanmasında sodyum alginat veya alginik asit matriksleri çok yaygın olarak kullanılmaktadır. Bitki çoğaltımının kolay olması, uzun süre saklanabilmesi, nesli tükenmekte olan bitkilerin neslinin devam ettirilmesi ve üretimlerinin düşük maliyetle yapılabilmesi gibi birçok avantaj sentetik tohumun bitkilerin gelişimi için önemli ölçüde kullanılabilirliğini göstermektedir. Sentetik tohum teknolojisi tohumla çoğaltım imkanı bulunmayan bitkilerin üretiminde de kullanılabilecek çok önemli bir tekniktir. Bu derleme makale, sentetik tohum konusundaki ortaya koyulmuş bilgileri ve yapılmış çalışmaları bir araya getirmek amacıyla yazılmıştır.
Removal of heavy metals from textile industry wastewater
Authors: TÜRKSOY Recep , TERZİOĞLU Gökhan , YALÇIN İbrahim Ertuğrul , TÜRKSOY Özlem , DEMİR Göksel
Published: August 2021

Wastewaters of several industries such as textile, leather or dye etc., contain dangerous and toxic compounds, even some of which are potential carcinogenics. Considering the volume and composition, wastewaters of the textile industry have much more polluting characteristics compared to other industries. Although treatment processes must definitely be implemented in point of environment and living organisms, many factories discharge their wastewaters to acceptor media without any treatment because of high costs. This study investigated zeolite and clay with high availability and low cost in wastewater treatment as more economically feasible alternatives to activated carbon. The wastewater treatment adequacy of zeolite-clay mixture was also investigated. We determined the optimum treatment time for heavy metal removal from the dye-containing wastewater samples as 6 hours. The mixture of clay+zeolite+activated carbon provided the highest removal of Cd, Cu, Mn, Pb, and Zn compared to zeolite, clay, activated carbon, activated carbon+clay, activated carbon+zeolite and clay+zeolite.
SISTEMA CONSTRUTIVO MODULARES DE PLÁSTICO PARA CONSTRUÇÃO
Authors: Santa Ana Márcio de Freitas , Nogueira Paulo Roberto Rodrigues Brandão , Amaral Elaine Gomes do
Published: August 2021

A indústria de construção civil é o setor que mais gera impactos ambientais e que mais consome matéria-prima. Por isso, a inserção de práticas sustentáveis ao processo construtivo se torna cada vez mais imprescindível. Ao longo dos anos, houve um crescimento significativo de discussões em torno do desenvolvimento sustentável e o surgimento de certificações que incentivam a sustentabilidade na construção civil. O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar e analisar um tipo de sistema construtivo empregado na execução de habitações unifamiliares de interesse social e realizar um estudo de caso empregando “módulo plástico na composição da construção. A relevância se justifica pelos aspectos dos principais processos construtivos industrializados que contribuem para otimizar a sustentabilidade na construção civil, com ênfase na modulação e padronização. A metodologia adotada para o desenvolvimento do tema em questão foi a pesquisa através de livros, revistas, artigos publicados e pesquisas em internet. Após a conclusão do estudo, verifica-se à finalidade de pensar na maneira como os módulos desse sistema serão produzidos industrialmente, sempre buscando reduzir os custos e ganhar tempo durante a produção dessas peças, podendo alcançar os objetivos traçados de desenvolvimento sustentável.
AÇÕES PROMOVIDAS PELO MUNICÍPIO AOS MORADORES DE RUA DA CIDADE DE UBERLÂNDIA-MG NA PANDEMIA
Authors: Amaral Elaine Gomes do , Nogueira Paulo Roberto Rodrigues Brandão , Santa Ana Márcio de Freitas
Published: August 2021

Artigo trata das formas de interação entre a população em situação de rua no município de Uberlândia-MG e a atuação do Poder Público, no caso a prefeitura, em tempos de COVID-19, com ações desenvolvidas em benefício dessas pessoas. OBJETIVO: Descrever as ações junto às pessoas em situação de rua devido à vulnerabilidade diante da Covid-19 no município de Uberlândia entre março de 2020 e abril de 2021. Método: Busca na literatura utilizada foi à busca de publicações, Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS) e Google Acadêmico. RESULTADOS: Prefeitura de Uberlândia intensificou o cuidado com as pessoas em situação de rua, adotando várias medidas de proteção voltadas a essa população com  busca ativa diária  realizando os encaminhamentos necessários para as pessoas com sintomas de COVID-19. CONCLUSÕES: Poder público atuou de forma satisfatória  no acompanhamento e no  acolhimento destas pessoas moradores de rua.
DATA LITERACY IS STATISTICAL LITERACY
Authors: GOULD ROBERT
Published: August 2021

Past definitions of statistical literacy should be updated in order to account for the greatly amplified role that data now play in our lives. Experience working with high-school students in an innovative data science curriculum has shown that teaching statistical literacy, augmented by data literacy, can begin early.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
INTERACTIVE VISUALISATIONS AND STATISTICAL LITERACY
Authors: SUTHERLAND SINCLAIR , RIDGWAY JIM
Published: August 2021

Statistical literacy involves engagement with the data one encounters. New forms of data and new ways to engage with data – notably via interactive data visualisations – are emerging. Some of the skills required to work effectively with these new visualisation tools are described. We argue that interactive data visualisations will have as profound an effect on statistical literacy as the introduction of statistics packages had on statistics in social science in the 1960s. Current conceptualisations of statistical literacy are too passive, lacking the exploration part in data analysis. Statistical literacy should be conceived of as empowerment to engage effectively with evidence, and educators should seek to move students along a pathway from using interactive data visualisations to building them and interpreting what they see.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
STATISTICAL LITERACY FOR ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP: A CALL FOR DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION
Authors: ENGEL JOACHIM
Published: August 2021

Data are abundant, quantitative information about the state of society and the wider world is around us more than ever. Paradoxically, recent trends in the public discourse point towards a post-factual world that seems content to ignore or misrepresent empirical evidence. As statistics educators we are challenged to promote understanding of statistics about society. In order to re-root public debate to be based on facts instead of emotions and to promote evidence-based policy decisions, statistics education needs to embrace two areas widely neglected in secondary and tertiary education: understanding of multivariate phenomena and the thinking with and learning from complex data.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
A RESPONSE TO WHITE AND GORARD: AGAINST INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: HOW AND WHY CURRENT STATISTICS TEACHING GETS IT WRONG
Authors: NICHOLSON JAMES , RIDGWAY JIM
Published: August 2021

White and Gorard make important and relevant criticisms of some of the methods commonly used in social science research, but go further by criticising the logical basis for inferential statistical tests. This paper comments briefly on matters we broadly agree on with them and more fully on matters where we disagree. We agree that too little attention is paid to the assumptions underlying inferential statistical tests, to the design of studies, and that p-values are often misinterpreted. We show why we believe their argument concerning the logic of inferential statistical tests is flawed, and how White and Gorard misrepresent the protocols of inferential statistical tests, and make brief suggestions for rebalancing the statistics curriculum.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE WORKPLACE: HOW SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDENTS ARE LEARNING TO DO DATA ANALYSIS FOR REAL
Authors: CARTER JACKIE , BROWN MARK , SIMPSON KATHRYN
Published: August 2021

In British social science degree programmes, methods courses have a bad press, and statistics courses in particular are not well-liked by most students. A nationally-coordinated, strategic investment in quantitative skills training, Q-Step, is an attempt to address the issues affecting the shortage of quantitatively trained humanities and social science graduates. Pedagogic approaches to teaching statistics and data analysis to social science students are starting to indicate positive outcomes. This paper contributes to these debates by focusing on the perspective of the student experience in different learning environments: first, we explain the approach taken at the University of Manchester to teaching a core quantitative research methods module for second-year sociology students; and second, we introduce case studies of three undergraduates who took that training and went on to work as interns with social research organisations, as part of a Manchester Q-Step Centre initiative to take learning from the classroom into the workplace.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
OPENING REAL SCIENCE: EVALUATION OF AN ONLINE MODULE ON STATISTICAL LITERACY FOR PRE-SERVICE PRIMARY TEACHERS
Authors: BILGIN AYSE AYSIN BOMBACI , DATE-HUXTABLE ELIZABETH , COADY CARMEL , GEIGER VINCENT , CAVANAGH MICHAEL , MULLIGAN JOANNE , PETOCZ PETER
Published: August 2021

Opening Real Science (ORS) is a three-year government initiative developed as part of the Mathematics and Science Teachers program. It is a collaboration across universities involving teacher educators, scientists, mathematicians, statisticians and educational designers aimed at improving primary and secondary pre-service teachers’ competence and confidence in mathematics and science. The ORS project has developed 25 online learning modules for pre-service teacher programs. Statistical literacy is prioritised. The Statistical Literacy Module for Primary Teachers (SL-P) adopts an inquiry-based approach and uses resources and contexts relevant to their practice. This paper documents the development and evaluation process of SL-P from its conception to implementation, and reviews the initial trials.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
DEVELOPING STATISTICAL LITERACY IN THE FINAL SCHOOL YEAR
Authors: BUDGETT STEPHANIE , ROSE DRUSILLA
Published: August 2021

Statistical information pervades everyday life in the twenty-first century. Research shows, however, that the skills needed to be able to understand and critically evaluate statistical information must be specifically taught. In 2013, an externally assessed National Certificate in Educational Achievement standard in statistical literacy was introduced for the first time in New Zealand. A small exploratory study investigated a possible teaching approach designed to enable Year-13 students (aged 17-18) to critically evaluate media reports. Findings suggest that the learning trajectory required several key components including media reports as both a motivational and conceptual development tool. In addition, computer visualizations and procedural scaffolds appeared valuable tools for facilitating conceptual understanding of the margin of error.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
INTERPRETATION OF STATISTICAL DATA: THE IMPORTANCE OF AFFECTIVE EXPRESSIONS
Authors: QUEIROZ TAMIRES , MONTEIRO CARLOS , CARVALHO LILIANE , FRANÇOIS KAREN
Published: August 2021

In recent years, research on teaching and learning of statistics emphasized that the interpretation of data is a complex process that involves cognitive and technical aspects. However, it is a human activity that involves also contextual and affective aspects. This view is in line with research on affectivity and cognition. While the affective aspects are recognized as important for the interpretation of data, they were not sufficiently discussed in the literature. This paper examines topics from an empirical study that investigates the influence of affective expression during the interpretation of statistical data by final-year undergraduate students of statistics and pedagogy. These two university courses have different curricular components, which are related to specific goals in the future professional careers of the students. The results suggest that despite differing academic backgrounds in both groups, the participants’ affective expressions were the most frequent type of category used during the interpretation of research assignments.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICAL LITERACY AT SCHOOL
Authors: CALLINGHAM ROSEMARY , WATSON JANE M.
Published: August 2021

Statistical literacy increasingly is considered an important outcome of schooling. There is little information, however, about appropriate expectations of students at different stages of schooling. Some progress towards this goal was made by Watson and Callingham (2005), who identified an empirical 6-level hierarchy of statistical literacy and the distribution of middle school students across the levels, using archived data from 1993-2000. There is interest in reconsidering these outcomes a decade later, during which statistics and probability has become a recognised strand of the Australian mathematics curriculum. Using a new data-set of over 7000 student responses from middle-years students in different parts of Australia during the period 2007-2009, the nature of the hierarchy was confirmed. Longitudinal analysis identified how students performed across time against the hierarchy. Suggestions are made for systems and teachers about realistic expectations for middle-years students, and possible curriculum challenges.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS FOR STATISTICAL LITERACY POSTER COMPETITIONS
Authors: MACFEELY STEVE , CAMPOS PEDRO , HELENIUS REIJA
Published: August 2021

Statistical literacy is complex and multifaceted. In every country, education and numeracy are a function of a multitude of factors including culture, history, and societal norms. Nevertheless, since the launch of the International Statistical Poster Competition (ISLP) in 1994, a number of patterns have emerged to suggest there are some common or universal success factors in running statistical literacy competitions involving schools, universities, statistical offices, and many other institutions. This paper outlines some of those factors, such as institutional cooperation, celebrating participation and success, improvement of statistical literacy in the local schools, support for teachers, the involvement of national statistics institutes, and use of technology. These factors have been identified from our own experience running the competition and from articles submitted to the ISLP newsletters. Statistical literacy is a complex phenomenon, and so this is neither an exhaustive list of key factors nor a formula for success, but rather an overview of recurring themes across countries participating in the competition around the world.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
STATISTICAL LITERACY IN PUBLIC DEBATE – EXAMPLES FROM THE UK 2015 GENERAL ELECTION
Authors: ARNOLD PHOEBE
Published: August 2021

Full Fact is an independent, non-partisan fact-checking charity. A particular focus is the analysis of factual claims in political debate in the UK; for example, fact-checking claims and counterclaims made during Prime Minister’s questions. Facts do not appear in a vacuum as they are often used as key elements in an effort to make a coherent argument. This paper describes a number of case histories where facts are disputed, drawn from our election work, to give an overview of the contemporary state of statistical literacy among politicians and the media. Common pitfalls in politicians’ claims are set out, along with descriptions of our attempts to close the communication gap between different communities.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
THE IMPACT OF STUDENT-DIRECTED PROJECTS IN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS
Authors: SPENCE DIANNA J. , BAILEY BRAD , SHARP JULIA L.
Published: August 2021

A multi-year study investigated the impact of incorporating student-directed discovery projects into introductory statistics courses. Pilot instructors at institutions across the United States taught statistics implementing student-directed projects with the help of a common set of instructional materials designed to facilitate such projects. Researchers measured the impact of these projects on student learning and on students’ attitudes and beliefs about statistics. Results of the quantitative analyses are shared, with subsequent discussion of their implications. Findings suggest that inclusion of student-directed research projects in introductory statistics can lead to greater statistics self-efficacy and improved statistical knowledge in specific domains. Additional analyses suggest that these student benefits may improve as their instructors gain more experience facilitating such projects.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
REACTION TIME IN GRADE 5: DATA COLLECTION WITHIN THE PRACTICE OF STATISTICS
Authors: WATSON JANE , ENGLISH LYN
Published: August 2021

This study reports on a classroom activity for Grade 5 students investigating their reaction times. The investigation was part of a 3-year research project introducing students to informal inference and giving them experience carrying out the practice of statistics. For this activity the focus within the practice of statistics was on introducing two different ways of collecting data to answer a statistical question, in this case, “What is the typical reaction time of Grade 5 students?” Workbook entries were used to assess students’ capacities to engage in the investigation. Results indicated that although the students were proficient with the procedures and measures introduced, they were less able to explain and apply the underlying concepts. The activity provides a suggestion and benchmarks for others wishing to follow student development of concepts related to the practice of statistics.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
STATISTICS STUDENT PERFORMANCE AND ANXIETY: COMPARISONS IN COURSE DELIVERY AND STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS
Authors: HEDGES SARAI
Published: August 2021

The statistics education community continues to explore the differences in performance outcomes and in student attitudes between online and face-to-face delivery methods of statistics courses. In this quasi-experimental study student persistence, exam, quiz, and homework scores were compared between delivery methods, class status, and programs of study for students enrolled in an undergraduate introductory statistics course. Student persistence and homework grades were significantly different for course delivery method. Anxiety levels, measured using the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS), were compared between delivery methods, programs of study, and gender. One anxiety subscale—Test & Class Anxiety—was significantly different between delivery methods and genders. Implications and suggestions for further study are offered based on the study results.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
IS GAISE EVIDENT? COLLEGE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF STATISTICS CLASSES AS “ALMOST NOT MATH”
Authors: HEDGES SARAI , HARKNESS SHELLY SHEATS
Published: August 2021

The connection between mathematics and statistics is an important aspect in understanding college students’ learning of statistics because studies have shown relationships among mathematics attitudes and performance and statistics attitudes. Statistics attitudes, in turn, are related to performance in statistics courses. Little research has been done on college students’ perceptions of their mathematics and statistics experiences. To fill this gap, a phenomenographical study of 12 college students with self-identified negative attitudes about statistics was conducted to understand their perceptions of their previous mathematics and statistics classes. An integrated approach to data analysis was conducted in two phases. First, themes emerged from an inductive analysis. Second, the six recommendations from the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) College Report (2005) were used as a priori categories as an organizing framework for coding the data. Themes that emerged from the researchers’ analysis of the data were changing attitudes about statistics, defining the nature of statistics, seeking help, and blaming the teacher. The GAISE recommendations did not appear to be realized in the statistics classes taken by these students in various programs of study. Implications of these findings are discussed and recommendations for further research are suggested. In understanding students’ experiences from their perspectives, statistics educators can improve pedagogy and student learning.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
IS THE P-VALUE REALLY DEAD? ASSESSING INFERENCE LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDENTS IN AN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSE
Authors: LANE-GETAZ SHARON J.
Published: August 2021

In reaction to misuses and misinterpretations of p-values and confidence intervals, a social science journal editor banned p-values from its pages. This study aimed to show that education could address misuse and abuse. This study examines inference-related learning outcomes for social science students in an introductory course supplemented with randomization and simulation content. Learning gains were measured across a suggested taxonomy of inference learning outcomes using the Reasoning about P-values and Statistical Significance (RPASS-10) scale. Three graphical comparisons of students’ Pretest and Posttest proportions were encoded by learning gain or loss, an inference learning outcome taxonomy, or if a correct concept or misconception was assessed. What students learned and the difficulties that persisted shape recommendations for teaching and future research.
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
FORTHCOMING IASE CONFERENCES
Authors: BOROVCNIK MANFRED , PFANNKUCH MAXINE
Published: August 2021

Forthcoming IASE Conferences
First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives
Take a walk in their shoes: Empathy and emotion in the writing process
Authors: Gandolfo Enza
Published: August 2021

Christos Tsiolkas said Dead Europe ‘was a very difficult novel to write. It … took me, in the writing of it, into dark and fearful places. As a writer you take on aspects of your characters and if you are not careful the world you are creating begins to blend with the world you actually inhabit’ (Tsiolkas 2008). There is substantial research demonstrating the therapeutic benefits of writing about one’s own traumas. But what are the challenges of writing fiction that requires imagining and creating traumatic events; evil, monstrous or tragic characters? If, as many argue, fiction makes readers more empathetic, it is because writers have created believable worlds that readers can inhabit. In order to create believable worlds that readers can inhabit these worlds and the characters that people them, writers have to inhabit their characters’ lives. This can mean spending years in very dark places. In this article I explore the emotional and physical impact this has on writers and look at ways writers might manage what Marguerite MacRobert calls the ‘emotional roller coaster’ (MacRobert 2012). This is an autoethnographic article and my aim is to contribute to our understanding of the processes of creative writing by exploring and interrogating my experience of writing fiction about traumatic experiences.
‘Welcome creative subversions’: Experiment and innovation in recent biographical writing
Authors: Brien Donna Lee
Published: August 2021

While biography is popularly understood as a literature that tells straightforward, factual life stories, it is – as a literary form – the site of considerable experimentation. This article maps current biographical experimental practice and enquiry against the background of innovation during the twentieth century. This includes a discussion of the form and craft of biographical innovation, including the practical, theoretical and methodological issues involved, much of which has been contributed by working biographers who also reflect on biographical form through the lens of innovation in their own practice.
Adding to the hall of mirrors: A fictocritical response to Anthony Macris’ Great Western Highway
Authors: Murphy Julian
Published: August 2021

In this essay I take, as my departure point, Anthony Macris’ 2012 novel Great Western Highway: a love story. My specific focus is the presence of technology in the novel, and the way technology is shown to shape relations between individuals and between the individual and the world. Rather than adopt a strictly critical mode of writing, I have chosen to write this essay by oscillating between critical and creative prose, and drawing on a mixture of academic research, personal experience and anecdote. Such a mode is invited by Macris’ novel, which itself occupies the liminal space between fictional and critical writing. Furthermore, the fictocritical format of this essay allows me to deliberately confuse and conflate my own images with those from Macris’ novel. I enact this confusion in the hope that my essay becomes a contribution to Macris’ textual hall of mirrors, or what he more technically labels the ‘Generative mise en abyme’ (Macris 2008: 2).
Re-encountering Christina Stead: Why read ‘Workshop in the Novel’?
Authors: Burns Alison , Goodrich RA
Published: August 2021

Despite waves of interest in the work of Christina Stead, one aspect of her writing life has been largely neglected. From September 1943, she taught three series of extended writing workshops in New York and in the process left more than three hundred pages documenting her teaching. The question motivating this paper is: Why should we, as writers and teachers of writing, read her writing workshop notebooks nowadays? This paper will place Stead’s workshop in the context of the development of institutional teaching of novel writing and her emergence as a major writer. It will briefly examine how the notebooks have previously been understood and offer a closer analysis than has been made to date of the notebooks and their content and of the key issues raised by them. In particular, we shall explore her pedagogic focus upon workshop participants developing a rigorous, analytical approach to crafting novels and her extensive use of Georges Polti’s Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations to achieve this. That, in turn, will enable us to assess what the notebooks independently reveal about her beliefs regarding the novel and its purpose.

Image: Snapandrattle33, ‘Christina Stead Sydney Writers Walk plaque’, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Being read: How writers of fiction manuscripts experience and respond to criticism
Authors: Neave Lucy
Published: August 2021

This paper brings into dialogue contemporary discourse in creative writing studies about approaches to reading draft fiction with a subjective account of the experience of being read. Through drawing on two key essays on reading strategies in the discipline of creative writing, statements by published authors and my own process, this paper looks at how writers respond to feedback on their writing. Reading of draft creative work occurs in overlapping contexts – in universities, by informal networks of writers and by editors – and social structures such as reading and writing groups support a writer in his or her response to criticism. The changes made to manuscripts as a result of feedback can be significant; this paper looks at the contexts in which such changes are executed. Ultimately, this paper argues that ‘communities of practice’ composed of writers who attended a university creative writing program together and who continued to read each other’s work after graduation utilised and developed strategies initiated in such programs. Such communities have benefits for their members in terms of social support and publication.
Büyük ve Orta Boy İşletmelerin Finansal Raporlarına Covid-19 Etkisinin Oran Analizi Yöntemi ile İncelenmesi: Temel Gıda Üretim İşletmesi Örneği
Authors: Parlak Neşegül
Published: August 2021

Covid-19, which has severely disrupted the economic systems in all countries, has led to significant changes in the financial structures of businesses. While the atmosphere of uncertainty created by the Covid-19 affected the businesses with weak liquidity structures the most, it also affected the financial and operational processes of the businesses in different ways. This study aims to examine the financial situation in the case of a basic food production business, which is within the scope of large and medium-sized enterprises, and evaluate its financial performance by the ratio analysis method within the framework of the Covid-19 effect. For this purpose, the liquidity status, asset use efficiency, financial structure, and profitability ratios of the enterprise before and during the Covid-19 period were examined and evaluated. It is seen in the study's result that the asset use and turnover rates of the enterprise are managed effectively and there is a stable improvement in the profitability ratios. It is observed that the liquidity ratios of the enterprise tend to decrease. We can say that the fact that the business was not among the sectors whose activities were restricted during the Covid-19 period and it operated in the basic food production area, which is a basic need for humans, is the reason why it was relatively less affected by the process.