This initiative seemed particularly relevant to this list.
Mike Fuller
Teaching-Statistics List Owner
Canterbury Business School, University of Kent,
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7PE, UK
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This email is to draw your attention to a database of reviewed
educational research in Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research
(MSOR). This will probably be very useful for colleagues taking PGCert
courses in learning and teaching, or others needing a way into the
mathematics education literature.
The educational literature is vast, and much of this is devoted to
schoollevel mathematics education. For staff members in HE Mathematics
and Statistics departments who wish to access this work, it can be very
timeconsuming and frustrating. Without some help, finding the useful
material might be a matter of hit and miss. To help staff locate
relevant articles the Network has commissioned a collection of reviewed
articles of educational research in MSOR. This is a small and careful
selection of the available literature, and using the references these
contain will help give access to the literature more widely. Each entry
has a detailed review (not simply the author's abstract) explaining the
main subject of the work.
This database is available through a very simple web interface which may
be searched by three different methods: author, keyword or using a
practical/theoretical filter.
http://ltsn.mathstore.gla.ac.uk/resourcecollection/
The collection is an ongoing project and we welcome contributions of a
comparable format and standard. If your favourite article does not
appear in this collection it is most probably because it has not been
reviewed. Please contact Chris Sangwin, [log in to unmask] with
suggestions for additions to the database.
Chris Sangwin
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