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Lancaster Postgraduate Statistics Centre – creating enterprise and innovation in teaching statistics across disciplines. [PDF]
, 2009 The Lancaster Postgraduate Statistics Centre (PSC) encompasses all aspects of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning within the Mathematics and Statistics department. It is the only UK HEFCE-funded Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning that uniquely
Lancaster, Gillian +2 more
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Introducing the Lancaster Postgraduate Statistics Centre – a Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). [PDF]
, 2007 In the spring of 2005, the University of Lancaster was successful in winning a £4.85 million bid to fund a Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL).
Abram, Bev, Francis, Brian
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Motivation for learning statistics: An example from fishery and aquaculture science [PDF]
, 2023 Teaching statistics to generalist students oriented toward a profession, rather than academic merits, may be challenging. As statistics courses also tend to have a low student appeal, tailoring a course toward this type of audience is demanding.
Sønvisen, Signe Annie +1 more
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Connected Teaching of Statistics [PDF]
, 1999 Statistics is considered to be a difficult science since it requires a variety of skills including handling of quantitative data, graphical insights as well as mathematical ability. Yet ever increasing special knowledge of statistics is demanded since data of increasing complexity and size need to be understood and analyzed.
Härdle, Wolfgang +2 more
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Teaching Teachers to Teach Statistical Investigations [PDF]
, 2011 Despite its importance for the discipline, the statistical investigation cycle is given little attention in schools. Teachers face unique challenges in teaching statistical inquiry, with elements unfamiliar to many mathematics classrooms: Coping with uncertainty, encouraging debate and competing interpretations, and supporting student collaboration ...
Makar, Katie, Fielding-Wells, Jill
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Chi-square and F Ratio: Which should be used when?
Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 2018 Approximations for Chi-square and F distributions can both be computed to provide a p-value, or probability of Type I error, to evaluate statistical significance.
Richard L. Gorsuch, Curtis Lehmann
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Economic Statistics or Statistical Methods in Economics? [PDF]
Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, 2014 In teaching statistics to economists, it often happens that insuffi cient distinction is drawn between statistical methods applied on economic data on the one hand, and economic statistics as a special discipline with its own theoretic basis, fundamental
Richard Hindls, Stanislava Hronová
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Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015 In this study we assessed the usefulness of a multifaceted teaching framework in an advanced statistics course. We sought to expand on past findings by using this framework to assess changes in anxiety and self-efficacy, and we collected focus group ...
April L. McGrath +4 more
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Teaching Statistics and Data Analysis with R
Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022 We developed an interactive online textbook that interleaves R programming activities with text as a way to facilitate students’ understanding of statistical ideas while minimizing the cognitive and emotional burden of learning programming.
Mary C. Tucker +3 more
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Teaching Introductory Statistics with DataCamp
Journal of Statistics Education, 2020 We designed a sequence of courses for the DataCamp online learning platform that approximates the content of a typical introductory statistics course. We discuss the design and implementation of these courses and illustrate how they can be successfully ...
Benjamin S. Baumer +3 more
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