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Join Nick, Mikayla and Liz for a podcast on quantitative data on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Nick and Mikayla take Liz through some of the planning and questions that need to be thought about before starting a quantitative project.
 

 Running order of quantitative data

Introduction to statistics
Planning your question
Specific hypotheses
Descriptive statistics
Inferential statistics
Statistical significance

How the Maths Advisers can help

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Join Nick and Liz for a podcast on developing your maths confidence on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Nick give you tips and hints to take you through their experiences of developing maths confidence.
 

 Running order of the developing your maths confidence

There are lots of different ways you may need to use maths at university and most courses will have some element of maths; whether looking at percentages or having to understand charts.

Maths anxiety 

1.       What it is

2.       How you can cope with it and strategies

Maths at school is meant to be a building block to give you an overview, sometimes it is more like a stumbling block         

3.       Anxiety, stress and well-being

4.       Follow the steps to get to the answer – not always obvious along the way

5.       Practice

6.       Little and often

7.       OK to make mistakes

Maths is learning another language

8.       Maths conventions

9.       No exceptions so easier than learning English!

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Join Liz, Shirley and Jen for a podcast on maths and resilience learning on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz, Shirley and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through their experiences of maths and  resilience learning and different tools that may assist you. 
 

 Running order of the maths and resilience learning podcast.

·       Fixed mindset vs. growth mindset

·       Exercising the brain

·       Learning maths and learning in general 

·       Expectations 

·       Comfort zone

·       The growth zones

·       Anxiety zone

·       How you handle and react to difficulties

·       Motivation 

·       Here to help

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Join Jen and Liz for a podcast on proofreading and editing on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through their experiences of proofreading and editing, and different tools that may assist you.
 
 

 Running order of the proofreading and editing podcast
 
Writing an assignment is a messy process – ideas/points and evidence all need to be discussed

Tidying up that assignment to get it ready to submit is not something you can do efficiently if you are still trying to write

Books and magazines have editors who take an overview and see where tidying is needed

You have to do this process yourself – if you can step back even for a day between finishing your assignment and editing it you will distance yourself emotionally and be a more effective editor

Finish writing

Have a break

Start editing in earnest

Have one goal in mind each time you look through your work – it can be useful to go through and highlight your work when you find what you are looking for

Start by going back to the question you were set 

Have you answered the question? 

Have you considered and evidenced all the learning outcomes?

Have you included evidence to go with each point?

Look at places you can save words – the word VERY is an easy one to get rid of. 

Can you rephrase a sentence to get to the point more quickly?

Can you reduce redundancy?

Can you save 15 words and use them to include more evidence, or draw another conclusion that could potentially get marks?

Look at the flow of your work

Does the order make logical sense?

Did you follow your plan? – If not why not?

Does each paragraph have one point?

Did you use signposting in your writing?

Does each piece of evidence have a reference in your reference list?

Look at your list of references

Have you used academic sources?

Have you used material from the reading list and beyond?

Have you over-relied on one source?

Have you only considered one viewpoint or theory?

Have you believed the evidence without questioning it?

Can you get word or a friend to read your work out loud to spot partial sentences or typos? 

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Join Lisa and Stacey for a podcast on warming up for study on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Stacey and Lisa give you tips and hints to take you through the steps of how to warm up for your studying.
 
 

 Running order of the warming up for study podcast 

·          Getting into good habits 

·          Immersing yourself in the subject

·          Getting back into reading and writing

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Join Jen and Liz for a podcast on reassessment for exams on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through the reassessment process for exams.
 

 Running order of the Re-assessment for exams podcast 

·       Reflect on exam score/ could you have done anything different to your knowledge?

·       Planning for the exam

·       Study key points 

·       Understanding, identifying and breaking down the exam

·       Timing and pacing yourself 

·       Proofreading and checking

·       Use all the time you have available 

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Join Jen and Mikayla for an introductory podcast on quantitative and qualitative research methods for assignments on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Mikayla and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through the introductory overview of research methods.
 
 

 Running order of the Introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methods podcast 
 

·       Introduction to qualitative

·       Introduction to quantitative

·       Importance of planning 

·       Establishing which method, you want to use

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Join Jen and Liz for a podcast on reassessment for assignments on 'The Skills Pod'. Grab your cup of tea and biscuit, sit back and relax whilst Liz and Jen give you tips and hints to take you through the reassessment process for assignments.
 
 

 Running order of the Re-assessment for assignments podcast 

·       Process the results

·       Reflect

·       Analyse the feedback

·       Seek assistance for further skills development

·       Breakdown parts and plan/ organise new approach 

·       Re-structure/ Incorporate missing sections or gain further understanding about plagiarism

·       Proofread

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