Revising a Basic Statistics Course


Authors: 
Rinaman, W. C.
Category: 
Volume: 
6(2)
Pages: 
Online
Year: 
1998
Publisher: 
Journal of Statistics Education
URL: 
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v6n2/rinaman.html
Abstract: 

Members of the faculty of Le Moyne College made sweeping changes in the basic statistics course provided for the social and life sciences by the Department of Mathematics. The departments involved undertook an intensive collaboration. Intense scrutiny was given to the purpose and goals of the course. The result is a course that is significantly different from its predecessor. It places more emphasis on concepts and technology. A laboratory component was added to give students experience with Minitab and messy datasets. The implementation of the course had the expected problems. These are documented along with what was done to improve the course the second time it was offered.

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

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