Integration of Microcomputer-based Instruction into Business Statistics Courses

该项目将支持一所开放招生学院应用数学科学系的仪器。一个教室将配备25台联网的IBM- pc（或IBM兼容）微型计算机和一个用于演示目的的大型投影屏幕。该设备将用于商科专业必修的两门初级统计课程。学生将每天遇到指定的课堂问题，这些问题涉及需要统计分析和解释计算机输出的决策情况。解决方案将在计算机上计算出来（每台机器两个学生），就像在实验室一样。不喜欢数学的商科学生将对统计概念及其在现实世界问题中的应用有更深刻的理解，在处理流行的IBM-PC机器方面有更多的经验，并且对选择决策科学领域的高级数学课程更感兴趣。占市中心商学院1986年毕业班58%的商科学生将接受定量方法方面的强化培训。最终，我们将鼓励其他教师在计算机科学、数值方法和微积分等课程中使用这个教学实验室。

This project will support instrumentation in the Applied Mathematical Sciences Department of an open-admissions college. A classroom will be equipped with twenty-five networked IBM-PC (or IBM compatible) microcomputers and a large scale projection screen for demonstration purposes. The equipment will be used in two junior level statistics courses which are required of business majors. Students will encounter daily assigned classroom problems dealing with decision-making situations which require statistical analysis and interpretation of computer output. Solutions will be worked out on computers (two students per machine), as in a lab. Mathematically-shy business students will have a greater appreciation of statistical concepts and their applications to real world problems, more experience in dealing with the popular IBM-PC machinery and increased interest in pursuing optional senior level math courses in the area of the decision sciences. Business students, who represent fifty-eight percent of UH-Downtown's 1986 graduating class, will receive enhanced training in quantitative methods. Ultimately, other faculty will be encouraged to use this instructional lab for courses in computer science, numerical methods and calculus.