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Hovey, Christopher

Research Associate

Positions

  • Research Associate, NCWIT

Research Areas research areas

Research

research overview

  • Dr. Hovey’s research centers on improving computer and information science in higher education. His research specifically looks at addressing systems within higher education to improve recruiting and retaining undergraduates and graduates, as well as strategies for increasing faculty adoption and meaningful use of research-based teaching and reform practices.

keywords

  • computer science, higher education, faculty adoption, quantitative methodology, qualitative methodology

Teaching

courses taught

  • INFO 1301 - Statistics for Information Science
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2021
    Introduces concepts and techniques for characterizing and quantifying data. Students will learn to summarize, visualize, and interpret data with descriptive statistics and will learn the foundations of statistical inference and modeling. Topics include statistical distributions and the normal distribution, hypothesis testing and statistical significance, and linear regression.