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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Development and Evaluation of a Survey that Makes Use of Student Data to Teach Statistics
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Neumann, David L.; Neumann, Michelle M.; Hood, Michelle – Journal of Statistics Education, 2010
The use of a real data set has the potential to increase engagement and learning in students who enrol in a statistics course at university. The present report describes the development of an approach that uses a real data set, but one that is collected from the students. The questions are designed so that the data set can be used throughout the…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study
Statistics? You Must Be Joking: The Application and Evaluation of Humor when Teaching Statistics
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Neumann, David L.; Hood, Michelle; Neumann, Michelle M. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2009
Humor has been promoted as a teaching tool that enhances student engagement and learning. The present report traces the pathway from research to practice by reflecting upon various ways to incorporate humor into the face-to-face teaching of statistics. The use of humor in an introductory university statistics course was evaluated via interviews…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Humor, Statistics