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Software and data carpentry as a teaching model for epidemiology and data analysis in public health Arindam Basu School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury email: [email protected]

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Epidemiology & Evidence Based health are “boots on the ground” & we need tools to teach them: this is a quest for such a tool

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CDC’s EIS uses Boots on the Ground as their logo

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R Stata Epi Info Revman OpenRefine Databases

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How might we teach evidence appraisal in a classroom setting?

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We used a module on GRADE in the course using principles of Software Carpentry to teach evidence appraisal

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Regular classroom teaching Evidence Appraisal using GRADEPRO

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Confucius~500 B.C.

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A lot of time was spent repeated teaching one on one to students on how to work with GRADEPRO Despite long hours spent on one-on-one teaching, the student satisfaction was low, anxiety levels were high, the student grades were not great.

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Live coding

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How did I apply these in the classroom where I taught evidence appraisal using GRADE using Software Carpentry?

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Teacher Before After Teacher

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Before After

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What was the result?

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I spent less time one on one coaching and the students were more satisfied; based on informal feedbacks. The grades were better this time round compared with previous years

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I found that it is possible to use software carpentry in a setting where you can teach evidence appraisal

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• For more details see http://bit.ly/auckland_meeting • Photo credits: Pexel and Pixabay, all images are copylefted • For the paper by Greg Wilson, see https:// f1000research.com/articles/3-62/v2 • Software carpentry website lives here: https://software- carpentry.org/ • To learn more about my course, email me.