{"id":2133,"date":"2013-12-18T16:03:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T21:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&#038;p=2133"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:03:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T19:03:35","slug":"strengthening-empirical-reasoning-across-the-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/strengthening-empirical-reasoning-across-the-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening Empirical Reasoning Across the Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/data-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"Data Diagram\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/data-diagram.webp 590w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/data-diagram-300x300.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Discussion about the need\u2028 for stronger STEM (science, technology, engineering, \u2028and mathematics) education, especially for women and\u2028 girls, abounds in the media, classrooms, and centers of policy across America.<\/p>\n<p>In a society focused on big data, how can women\u2019s colleges ensure that students have the skills they will need in an evolving landscape that increasingly relies on empirical approaches? As Barnard reviews its curriculum and initiatives in online and on-campus learning, Heather Van Volkinburg, Barnard\u2019s associate director of learning initiatives \u2028and data services, draws on data collected at the newly created <a href=\"http:\/\/erl.barnard.edu\" title=\"link to Empirical Reasoning Lab website\" target=\"_blank\">Empirical Reasoning Lab (ERL)<\/a> to explore strategies to enhance critical thinking about numerical data, quantitative literacy, and qualitative analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion about the need\u2028 for stronger STEM (science, technology, engineering, \u2028and mathematics) education, especially for women and\u2028 girls, abounds in the media, classrooms, and centers of policy across America. In a society focused on big data, how can women\u2019s colleges ensure that students have the skills they will need in an evolving landscape that increasingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2112,"template":"","tags":[19,205,101,6,20,21],"class_list":["post-2133","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-academy","tag-barnard","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-science","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/2133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}