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Time of day of usage and outcomes
It’s been a long, long time since the last blog. Sorry! We have been busy – more of which later. But for now, I’d like to share some initial results from the work we’ve been doing looking at...
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Library usage and dropping out
I have spent the last few days looking at the relationship between using the library and dropping out of an undergraduate degree. I have some more results for you, but these ones are coming with a very...
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FINDINGS post 1: demographic differences
And so, our exciting rollercoaster of findings gets underway with a quick look at some of the demographic factors which seem to affect usage of library resources. Now, I’ve already posted about some...
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FINDINGS post 2: discipline matters
We’re moving on in this second of our final blogs to look at the relationship between discipline and usage. There are some interesting – although not necessarily unexpected – findings here, and bigger...
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FINDINGS post 3: Dropping out
I’ve already posted some early findings about usage and dropping out, showing that there is a relationship between not using the library and dropping out. As you might remember, these findings had a...
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FINIDNGS post 4: Final results and usage
In this round of analysis, we had some new metrics of library usage which weren’t available to researchers in the first round of the project. I’ve already blogged about one of them – overnight usage –...
View ArticleFINDINGS post 5: Predicting outcomes
One of the original aims for this project was to see whether library usage data could be combined with other variables to build a model that might help predict student outcomes. At first we thought...
View ArticleFinal blog post: managing the data
In terms of the data, this project was both simpler and more complex than the first stage. The fact that we were only dealing with data from a single institution made a big difference: we didn’t have...
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FINDINGS post 6: BONUS new findings on UCAS points and place of usage
Good news! We have acquired some extra data from various very helpful departments at Huddersfield, which allows us to explore a few additional angles for both indicators of usage and the relationship...
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BONUS findings post! Correlations
Hello. Hello! You’ve changed the format of the blogs, haven’t you? Yes, we like to mix it up a bit. We thought this might be fun, and not at all derivative. What are these bonus findings then? Well, it...
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