Conceptualizing Applied Statistics: A current need


Book: 
American Statistical Association 1993 Proceedings of the Section on Statistical Education
Authors: 
Weinberg, S. L.
Category: 
Pages: 
233-238
Year: 
1993
Publisher: 
American Statistical Association
Place: 
Alexandria, VA
Abstract: 

In this paper, particular suggestions, borrowed from principles of effective teaching practice, are made to enable students to have a clear sense of the goals, sequence, and rationale for the course, and more generally, to engage students in meaningful and memorable learning. Finally, linkages should be clipped from newspaper and the popular press to illustrate the applicability to everyday life of the statistics being taught in class, and to make students understand how inundated they are with statistics on a daily basis, even though they probably do not realize it. A motivated student is an interested learner, and the more we, as instructors, can do to motivate our students, the more satisfied we can expect them to be.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education