In addition to the convenience that R offers for data cleaning, analysis and automating reporting, it also has the capacity to complete a variety of mapping (GIS) tasks. Following are a few R snippets to help get started using the … Continue reading
On Friday December 4th, AERO hosted its annual fall conference at the Old Mill. The speakers included: Dr. Joe Kim, McMaster University, “The Science of Durable Learning” Don Buchanan, Hamilton Wentworth DSB , E-BEST, “Putting education in ‘educational’ apps: Lessons … Continue reading
You have been persuaded that engaging in Reproducible Research is worth your time and effort and now you want to get started. This post is a quick overview of the steps you need to take to install LaTeX and make … Continue reading
The American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) 2015 Annual Meeting will be starting this Thursday, April 16th with more than 14,000 people participating in over 2,600 sessions. This year AERA is being held in Chicago Illinois with the theme Toward Justice: … Continue reading
Of the 2,654 tweets, 744 (29%) included a link. Of those 744, 204 links were retweeted 540 times. Taking a closer look at the kinds of links that were posted, photos were the most frequent kind of link shared: Photo … Continue reading
Last week people from across Ontario came toToronto to attend the 10th annual Ontario Education Research Symposium. Over 400 people from schools, boards, post-secondary institutions, communities and networks met together to learn and share about well-being. The event featured: a … Continue reading
Dr. John Ioannidis’ 2005 article “Why Most Published Research Findings are False” is a provocative reflection on how vulnerable research can be to bias. With citation in over 1,400 papers over the last 9 years (http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0020124 ) Ioannidis has inspired and … Continue reading
