University of Manchester
uk 2010 royal statistical society campaign getstats economic social research council esrc identified pressing need promote use understanding statistical data quantitative methods qm despite excellent research data infrastructure uk data service esrc acknowledges qm skills deficit uk social science attempts improve data statistical literacy largely focused developing good practice institutional level revealed pockets excellence uk social science departments investment postgraduate level resulted progress capacity building researchers attention turning undergraduate level work reported paper result project sharing oers statistical literacy using real world data funded open universitys score support centre open resources education initiative project adopted case study approach investigate use real world data social science teaching quantitative methods also referred quantitative skills part research methods training focussed teaching undergraduate level social sciences excluding psychology economics methodological task find practitioners willing discuss share experiences using real world data environment explore approaches sharing resources population interviewees drawn therefore restricted already engaged endeavour consequently case studies selected given tasks quantitative methods teaching possibly marginalized quantitativequalitative split evident uk social sciences thus emthe task engaging largely disengagedem players space notably policy practitioners workplace trainers academic support staff also included though lesser degree order look beyond teaching qm connect wider issues especially employability graduates quantitative skills paper describes approach taken summarises activities undertaken provides series case studies showing differing perspectives engaging statistical data methods evidence benefits sharing open educational resources reflecting real world examples support development statistical literacy presented barriers sharing also discussed areas research practice also identified span classsubheadkeywordsspan statistical literacy quantitative methods social sciences employability real world data quantitative skills open educational resources