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Teaching Statistics for the Social Sciences Using Active Learning: A Case Study

open access: yesEducation Sciences
US college students are typically required to take at least one mathematics or statistics course, either as part their major area of study, or as a general education requirement. College mathematics requirements are an obstacle for many college students.
Daniel Douglas
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Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Statistics: Reaping the Benefits and Overcoming the Barriers

open access: yesJournal of Statistics Education, 2020
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs), whether within the context of a mentor-mentee experience or a classroom framework, represent an excellent opportunity to expose students to the independent scholarship model.
Joseph R. Nolan   +4 more
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Oral Exams: A More Meaningful Assessment of Students’ Understanding

open access: yesJournal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
Compared to their written counterpart, oral assessments provide a wealth of information about student understanding. Instead of deciphering a static response, oral assessments provide instructors the opportunity to probe student explanations, obtaining a
Allison S. Theobold
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A comparative cross-sectional assessment of statistical knowledge of faculty across five health science disciplines

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to compare statistical knowledge of health science faculty across accredited schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health.
Matthew J. Hayat   +4 more
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Incorporating Open Data Into Introductory Courses in Statistics

open access: yesJournal of Statistics Education, 2019
The 2016 Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) College Report emphasized six recommendations to teach introductory courses in statistics. Among them: use of real data with context and purpose.
Roberto Rivera   +2 more
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Comparing Student Performance in a Graduate-Level Introductory Biostatistics Course Using an Online versus a Traditional in-Person Learning Environment

open access: yesJournal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2020
Our study compared the performance of students enrolled in a graduate-level introductory biostatistics course in an online versus a traditional in-person learning environment at a school of public health in the United States.
Heather J. Hoffman, Angelo F. Elmi
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Translating Normalcy: Tutors Navigating Spaces Between Expectations and Experiences for Non-Traditional Students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Non-traditional students make up a large portion of the current college student population. Mike Rose indicates that the “non-traditional student is becoming the new norm” for higher education, and according to the National Center for Education ...
Gray, Jennifer P.
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Integrable E-Lements for Statistics Education [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
Without doubt modern education in statistics must involve practical, computer-based data analysis but the question arises whether and how computational elements should be integrated into the canon of methodological education. Should the student see and study high-level programming code right at the beginning of his or her studies?
Wolfgang Härdle   +2 more
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Evaluating the Utility of Paired Tumor and Germline Targeted DNA Sequencing for Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Single Institution Report

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski   +9 more
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Educational Aspirations of Diverse Groups among Undergraduate Statistics Majors

open access: yesJournal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2023
Understanding the educational aspirations of diverse groups among statistics majors provides insight into the discipline of statistics. This study utilizes multi-institution data from the 2019 and 2020 administrations of the National Survey of Student ...
Julie Lorah, Angie Miller
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