Maya Branch

My major is Human Development and Community Engagement and good data is crucial as the social sciences are driven by data driven decision making. If you give a kid a psychological assessment and the data you compare it to is wrong, you may give the wrong diagnosis. Data is also important in the field of Education and Social Work because…[Read more]

Decision trees can also be helpful in the fields of education and psychology. For example, in educational psych, we do a lot of assessments to determine if a student has a disability but it can be hard to determine what assessment tool is best/most appropriate. There are lots of factors to consider like age of the student, time available, and so…[Read more]

There were tons of mind boggling facts in the video and the implications are even more profound. What I found most interesting however was that half of what a 4 year college student learns in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year. This is interesting because it plays with our notions on why a degree is valuable while also…[Read more]