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UBC-MDS / opinionated-practices-for-teaching-reproducibility

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13656
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Potentially include more info in the introduction about students and teachers #19

Closed joelostblom closed 2 years ago

joelostblom commented 2 years ago

The introduction is very clear. What I would like to know a little more about (and I appreciate that the authors were limited due to anonymity) is a little more information about ‘who’ – both students and teachers (there is a little of this scattered later in the paper, but I wonder if the authors may consider bringing some of it together in a ‘background’ section). In particular, how much experience do the students typically have with programming languages, statistics, and work? What does the distribution of this look like? And turning to the teacher-side: what is experience and background of the typical person teaching these courses? How much continuity is there and how much freedom do they have to iterate?

joelostblom commented 2 years ago

Another reviewer made a similar point:

I recognize there are important limits to what can be included in the manuscript at this stage while maintaining anonymity, but it would help to provide additional details in the introduction about the courses that informed the manuscript (e.g., what types of courses? How many students? What academic or data science background does the typical student possess?)