A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down: using culinary analogies in quantitative social research methods teaching

Lesley McMillan; Lucy  Solomon

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down: using culinary analogies in quantitative social research methods teaching

Sociology

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Abstract

Book abstract: Improving Student Retention in Higher Education provides a practical, curriculum-based response to the current situation in higher education, where participating students emanate from a range of backgrounds; international and lower socioeconomic backgrounds, mature aged students, students with disabilities as well as those for whom higher education is the first family experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Improving Student Retention in Higher Education: The Role of Teaching and Learning
Editors	G. Crosling, L. Thomas, M. Heagney
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
ISBN (Print)	9780415399203
Publication status	Published - 2008

Keywords

research methods
teaching
quantitative

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A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down: using culinary analogies in quantitative social research methods teaching. / McMillan, Lesley; Solomon, Lucy .

Improving Student Retention in Higher Education: The Role of Teaching and Learning. ed. / G. Crosling; L. Thomas; M. Heagney. London : Routledge , 2008.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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