ASSESSING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF A STATISTICS COURSE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

This paper presents a case study of assessing an applied statistics course. The assessment includes 10 computer lab activities, that students may voluntary complete during the fall semester. An individual voluntary project is also incorporated as part of the assessment. At the end of the semester there is a final examination about the course contents. These assessment methods and the difficulties to implement them are discussed. Students have heterogeneous backgrounds. Some of them show fear and anxiety towards the subject. This interferes with the implementation of the assessment and implies discipline problems.