Data Management

In the last decade alone, the volume, production and availability of data has grown exponentially. Therefore, it has become ever more critical for students to know how to manage (saving and archiving, sharing, re-opening) the data they have collected. The student should know how to manage, edit and combine data for the purpose of applying the data to solve practical problems and produce new knowledge. When students begin to create a coherent, continuous and portfolio-like record of their own data collection and production activities, they simultaneously are able to examine how their own thinking has developed over time.