Statistics Teaching and Learning Corner
Note: Adam provided the lived experience in this post (he is the “I”) and Sam helped with the assessment and working with the folks at Ed. Throughout the pandemic, I’ve experimented with a variety of communication tools, synchronous and asynchronous ones, to better connect with my students. Slack and Discord were two apps I tried... Continue Reading →
Before March 2020, I was not a very flexible teacher in terms of course policy. I was quite rigid on deadlines unless there were emergencies and exams were “one and done.” After frantically creating and teaching an online course for spring term 2020 where I tried to be very flexible to accommodate the wide range... Continue Reading →
With the 2020 Joint Statistical Meetings in the rear view mirror and the fall semester under way, we wanted to take some time to reflect on our first virtual conference of this scale. While we were pleased to see the progress in the field of statistics education, we left feeling a little disappointed in the... Continue Reading →
As outlined by Cobb (2007), most introductory statistics books teach classical hypothesis tests as formulating null and alternative hypotheses, calculating a test statistic from the observed data, comparing the test statistic to a reference (null) distribution, and deriving a p-value on which a conclusion is based. This is still true for the first course, even after the 2016... Continue Reading →
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