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- Creator:
- Underwood, Terry
- Description:
- During spring 2006 the Office of Distance and Distributed Education (DDE) surveyed students and instructors enrolled in, or teaching courses in, the distance education environment. The purpose was to cast light on how distance education at CSUS is going for students and instructors. DDE was also interested in finding out ways to improve its services. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed at the conclusion of the spring semester. Twenty-six instructors and 1,139 students completed the surveys.
- Resource Type:
- Text
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Creator:
- Lascher, Edward L., Hussey, Wesley, and Dyck, Joshua J.
- Description:
- Some have argued that the ballot initiative process prevalent in many American states might lower inequality. We contend this is improbable based on what is known about whether expansion of democracy leads to redistribution, the attitudes of citizens, and the characteristics of the initiative process. Nevertheless, the proposition needs testing. We examine three types of evidence. First, we analyze the content and passage of all post-World War II initiatives going to voters in California, a state that makes heavy use of ballot propositions. Second, we model institutional factors influencing differences in inequality at the state-level from 1976–2014 to test the aggregate-level effect of ballot initiatives on income inequality. Third, we use individual level data to evaluate the claim that frequent initiative use makes lower income people happier because it helps to reduce inequality. Our analyses consistently indicate that the ballot initiative process fails to reduce income inequality.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- 2183-2463
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Creator:
- Dowden, Bradley Harris
- Description:
- The book is designed to improve your critical thinking skills. The skills are a complex weave of abilities that help you get someone's point, generate reasons for your own point, evaluate the reasons given by others, decide what to do or what not to do, decide what information to accept or reject, explain a complicated idea, apply conscious quality control as you think, and resist propaganda. Your most important critical thinking skill is your skill at making judgments─not snap judgments that occur in the blink of an eye, but those that require careful reasoning.
More specific topics are how to recognize claims, issues, arguments, and explanations, including how to distinguish them from each other and how to evaluate them. Special attention is given to evaluating information, judging the credibility of sources of information, and writing more clearly and with the appropriate precision for the situation.
The book teaches how to distinguish deductive arguments from inductive arguments, and how to recognize and display their logical forms. There is an introduction to Venn diagrams and Sentential Logic. The book also focuses on how to detect the major fallacies of reasoning and how not to be overly critical of other peoples' reasoning. Special attention is given to reasoning about what causes what, and more generally to scientific reasoning and pseudo-scientific reasoning.
After every few paragraphs, there are questions for the reader with answers and explanations. The end of each chapter contains a summary, a glossary, and many exercises or examination questions, a quarter of which contain answers and explanations.
- Resource Type:
- Learning Object
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
