Teaching with Statistics Education Digital Libraries

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Teaching with Statistics Education Digital
Libraries

• Ginger Holmes Rowell
• Middle Tennessee State University
• Joint Statistical Meetings
• Salt Lake City, 2007

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Overview

• Technology CAUSEweb/MERLOT Digital Library for
  Statistics Education
• Changes in teaching
• Teaching Learning Cycle (TLC)
• Interaction with students
• Hurdles of implementation (Searching Finding)
• Advantages of implementation

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Technology

• Digital Library for Statistics Education
• CAUSEweb
• MERLOT

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CAUSE

• Consortium for the Advancement of
  Undergraduate Statistics Education

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www.CAUSEweb.org

• Getting Started
• Guidelines for Research
• Readings Publications
• Literature Index
• Dissertations
• Working Groups

• CAUSEway workshops
• USCOTS
• Webinars
• Future Opportunities (keep checking this website.)

• Digital Library for Undergraduate Statistics
  Education

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Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and
Online Teaching
www.merlot.org
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Teaching

• Changes in teaching
• Teaching Learning Cycle (TLC)
• Interaction with students
• Hurdles of implementation (Searching Finding)
• Advantages of implementation

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Teaching Learning Cycle

• PowerPoint slides
• Reference Materials
• History
• Demonstrations
• Applets
• Videos
• Simulations

• Data Sets
• Case Studies
• Guided Demos
• Simulations
• Laboratories
• Applets
• Tutorials

• Teacher-directed assessments
• Laboratories
• Homework Problems
• Self-directed assessments
• Immediate Feedback

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TLC Regression
Applets like this one from SticiGui Java Tools
allow students to explore changes in the data to
see how they affect the regression line.
An in-class activity from the STAR Library can
help introduce the concept of regression.
Using self-tests like this one from Biometry
Statistics for Ecology, students can submit their
answers and receive immediate feedback regarding
questions answered correctly and questions or
topics needing improvement.
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TLC Regression
http//www.causeweb.org/repository/StarLibrary/act
ivities/buskirk_young2001/
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Using StatCrunch
http//www.statcrunch.com/
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TLC Regression
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TLC Regression
http//aerg.canberra.edu.au/cgi-bin/tiegen?/share/
www/envirostats/bm/L6/ffq12.tie
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TLC Hypothesis Testing
DIGSTATS contains examples and data sets, like
the one below about Acid Rain.
The Intuitor site contains an introduction to
hypothesis testing, relating it to what happens
at a criminal trial.
The ARTIST database contains questions classified
by topic and learning outcomes.
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DIG Stats
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ARTIST Assessment Resource Tools for Improving
Statistical Thinking
Login rowell_at_mtsu.edu Password ginger123
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Teaching

• Changes in teaching
• Teaching Learning Cycle (TLC)
• Interaction with students
• Hurdles of implementation (Searching Finding)
• Advantages of implementation

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Student Interaction

• Minimal change to student interactions
• Less lecture / more activities
• Potential for more on-line interactions
• Potential for on-line instruction
• MERLOT Personal Collections

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Teaching

• Changes in teaching
• Teaching Learning Cycle (TLC)
• Interaction with students
• Hurdles of implementation (Searching Finding)
• Advantages of implementation

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Searching Finding Resources

• Ways to Search in CAUSEweb Browse
  Categories
• Material Type
• Statistical Topic
• Regular Search
• Advanced Search
• Example

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Searching in MERLOT
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Searching in MERLOT
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Searching Browse Categories Material Type

• Lecture Examples
• Laboratories
• Out-of-class
• Teaching Tips
• Datasets
• Analysis Tools
• Curriculum
• Humor
• Building Blocks
• Multimedia

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Searching Browse Categories Statistical Topic
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Searching Regular Search

• CAUSEweb Search Tools
• Keywords
• Statistical Topic
• Material Type
• Application Area (i.e. subject)
• Resource Type
• Object Format

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Searching Advanced Search
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Searching Application Areas

• Agriculture
• Art and Music
• Astronomy
• Biology
• Business
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Engineering

• Geology
• Health Science
• Humanities
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Sports and Games

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Searching Resource Types

• Quiz/Test
• Reference Materials
• Simulation
• Sound
• Tutorial
• Webpage

• Animation
• Case Study
• Collection
• Drill and Practice
• Lecture/ Presentation

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For the Record
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On the Record

• Related (or Companion) Items are Identified

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Case Study Example
National Center for Case Study Teaching in
Science http//ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projec
ts/cases/markov/markov.html
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MERLOT Personal Collection
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Teaching

• Changes in teaching
• Teaching Learning Cycle (TLC)
• Interaction with students
• Hurdles of implementation (Searching Finding)
• Advantages of implementation

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Teaching

• Advantages of Implementation
• Using Teaching/Learning Cycle with Statistics
  Education Digital Library
• More activities
• Always thinking about assessment
• MERLOT Personal Collection
• Organizational advantage
• Record for future classes