Students in the QR Center
 

Contact Info

Chairs
Emily Marshall
Faculty Director
marshaem@dickinson.edu

Jackie Campbell
Associate Director
campbeja@dickinson.edu

Department Coordinator
Sheri Davis-Cordell
QR/GIS Coordinator
daviscos@dickinson.edu

Phone
717-254-8103

Location
Quantitative Reasoning Center,
Waidner-Boyd Lee Spahr Library

Mission

The Quantitative Reasoning Center supports students in any course with quantitative content—whether in mathematics, science, social science, or the humanities. Our QR tutors and Quantitative Reasoning Associates (QRAs) have been recommended by faculty and trained in techniques based in the science of learning. As such, they help students learn how to learn.

QR tutors have dual purposes:

  • To assist students in general quantitative areas
  • To assist students with discipline-specific courses based on the tutor’s area of expertise.

The general quantitative areas that our QR tutors can assist students with are:

  • Organizing an Excel spreadsheet
  • Making graphs in Excel
  • Using a scientific calculator
  • Computing statistics with or without a graphing calculator
  • Analyzing data sets
  • Calculating unit conversions
  • Understanding the order of operations
  • Reviewing for the quantitative portion of the GRE

Schedule

Please click here to view the current tutor schedule. Please visit the "Tutors by Courses" tab to identify tutors who can help with your specific course. 

Upcoming Events

Title Date Time Location
Excel: Intro & Data Manipulation Feb. 2 7:00 pm Spatial Literacy Center
Excel: Data Visualization Feb. 9 7:00 pm Spatial Literacy Center 
Advanced Excel Workshop Feb. 16 7:00 pm Spatial Literacy Center 
Tableau Workshop Feb. 21 3:30 pm Spatial Literacy Center 
MaxQDA Workshop Feb. 28 3:30 pm Denny 112
Faculty Development Feb. 1 3:00 pm Althouse 08
Faculty Development Mar. 1 3:00 pm Althouse 08
Data Analytics Hangout* Feb. 8 7:00 pm Althouse 08
Data Analytics Hangout* Mar. 1 7:00 pm Althouse 08
Data Analytics Hangout* Apr. 5 7:00 pm Althouse 08
*co-hosted by the QR Center and the Department of Data Analytics