Elementary Statistics Laboratory Course Development

在完成传统的大一-大二基础统计学课程的同时或之后，正在开发一个一学期的实验课程。该实验室引导学生通过简单而有意义的实验来说明应用统计学的要点。在每节课中，学生们讨论并执行一个实验，收集和分析数据，并写一份报告。该实验室与传统科学实验室的不同之处在于，重点将放在统计概念上。实验室的学生与控制组的学生在基础统计学方面的表现和参加额外统计学课程的倾向进行了比较。正在编写学生和教师手册；这些材料将在另一个机构进行试点测试；一个国家咨询委员会已经就位。

A one semester hour lab course to be taken with or after the completion of the traditional freshman-sophomore level elementary statistics course is being developed. The lab guides the student through simple, but meaningful, experiments which illustrate important points of applied statistics. In each session the students discuss and perform an experiment, collect and analyze data, and write a report. The lab differs from traditional science labs in that the emphasis will be on statistical concepts. Students in the lab are being compared with a control group with regard to performance in elementary statistics and propensity to enroll in additional statistics courses. Student and teacher's manuals are being prepared; the materials will be pilot tested at another institution; and a national advisory committee is in place.