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Online Software Tutorials Designed to Promote
Statistical Thinking and
Reasoning
Project Director: Michelle Everson
The purpose of this project is to create a series of 15-20
multimedia
tutorials to help teach students how to use the statistical software
package SPSS to analyze and reason about data. The tutorials will
record
and show the instructor as she works through different problems and
models
ways to reason about statistics. The tutorials will involve a real
data set
(a large education data set), and the same data set will be used
in each
tutorial to help students better connect ideas from one tutorial
(or one
unit in class) to the next (and hopefully, in the process, see the
interrelatedness of topics in the course). Students will view these
tutorials in order to learn the SPSS software program, and they will
apply
what they learn in these tutorials as they work through different
activities in the online course (e.g., discussion assignments, data
collection and analysis projects, weekly problem solving assignments).
PRESENTATIONS
Everson, M. (2009, August). Using technology to emphasize statistical literacy and enhance software instruction. Presentation given at the annual meeting of the Joint Statistics Meetings, Washington DC.