Developing Material for Introductory Statistics Courses from a Conceptual, Active Learning Viewpoint

Steinhorst, R. Kirk; Keeler, Carolyn M.

doi:10.1080/10691898.1995.11910497

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“…Efforts to move from lecture (passive) to active learning and from emphasis on procedural to emphasis on conceptual knowledge are throughout the emerging statistics education literature. See Keeler and Steinhorst (1995), Steinhorst and Keeler (1995), Kvam (2000), Weinberg and Abramowitz (2000), and Anderson-Cook and Dorai-Raj (2001). Many of these efforts have come as a result of National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects to develop hands-on activities, real-world data sets and simulation-based learning (Cobb 1993).…”

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Assessment of Materials for Engaging Students in Statistical Discovery

Froelich

Stephenson

Duckworth

2008

Journal of Statistics Education

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As part of an NSF funded project we developed new course materials for a general introductory statistics course designed to engage students in statistical discovery. The materials were designed to actively involve students in the design and implementation of data collection and the analysis and interpretation of the resulting data. Our overall goal was to have students begin to think like statisticians, to construct ways of thinking about data collection and analysis, to solve problems using data in context. During their development, the materials and related activities were field tested in a small special section of an introductory statistics course for two semesters. This field testing was a ``proof of concept,'' that is that the materials could work in the laboratory setting and that the materials showed promise for improving students' learning. As a first step in evaluating these materials, students who enrolled in regular sections of the introductory course were used as a comparison group. In this paper, the development and use of the course materials will be discussed briefly. The strategy for evaluating the materials while they were being developed and analysis of students' performance on common assessment questions and the course project will be presented. In addition, the relationship between student attitudes toward statistics and students' performance will be examined.``Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things -to help, or at least to do no harm.''Hippocrates from Epidemics, Bk. I, Sect. XI.

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Assessment of Materials for Engaging Students in Statistical Discovery

Froelich

Stephenson

Duckworth

2008

Journal of Statistics Education

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“…Other scholars support this viewpoint (Brooks and Brooks 1993;Garfield 1995;Gnanadesikan et al 1997;Keeler and Steinhorst 1995;MacGregor 1990;Steinhorst and Keeler 1995). Keeler and Steinhorst (1995), for example, believe that relevant examples should be used in teaching a statistics course, but most scholars find it difficult to teach in this way (also see Steinhorst and Keeler 1995).…”

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Activity-based learning of statistics: Using practical applications to improve students' learning

Chermak

Weiss

1999

Journal of Criminal Justice Education

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“…More specifically, we discovered that there are many active-learning-based resources for teaching introductory statistics to non-statisticians (Steinhorst & Keeler, 1995;Bradstreet, 1996;Chance, 2002;Bland, 2004;Enders & Diener-West, 2006;Supino & Borer, 2007;Carlson & Winquist, 2011). However, multi-predictor modeling is not only more complex but is also a substantially different type of topic than those covered in introductory statistics courses.…”

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An Active Learning Approach to Teach Advanced Multi-predictor Modeling Concepts to Clinicians

Samsa

Thomas

Lee

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Journal of Statistics Education

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Developing Material for Introductory Statistics Courses from a Conceptual, Active Learning Viewpoint

Cited by 30 publications

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Assessment of Materials for Engaging Students in Statistical Discovery

Assessment of Materials for Engaging Students in Statistical Discovery

Activity-based learning of statistics: Using practical applications to improve students' learning

An Active Learning Approach to Teach Advanced Multi-predictor Modeling Concepts to Clinicians

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