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Finch, Sue; Gordon, Ian – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2023
Providing a rich context has become a sine qua non of principled teaching of applied statistical thinking. With increasing opportunities to access secondary data, there should be increasing opportunity to work with rich context. We review the contextual information provided in 41 data sets suitable for introductory tertiary statistics teaching,…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Literacy, Introductory Courses, Statistical Analysis
Heyman, Megan – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
Obtaining relevant data and conveying limitations of the results are two integral components to a successful statistical analysis. It is difficult for students to internalize a deep understanding of these components using only curated, textbook-style examples. Through hands-on data collection, this activity provides a channel for students to…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Statistical Inference, Learning Activities, Research Methodology
Bonnett, Laura J.; White, Simon R. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
We describe an activity that introduces students to population modelling, enables them to use estimates obtained from a sample to infer back to the population, and understands how the findings are translatable via penguins and their poo!
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Mathematical Models, Statistics, Statistical Inference
Lyford, Alexander; Rahr, Thomas; Chen, Tina; Kovach, Benjamin – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
There is much debate about the place of probability in an introductory statistics course. While students may or may not use probability distributions in their post-collegiate lives, they will likely be faced with day-to-day decisions that require a probabilistic assessment of risk and reward. This paper describes an innovative way to teach…
Descriptors: Probability, Teaching Methods, Statistics, Educational Games
Roy, Sudipta – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
The natural experiment proposed in this article extracts three stories from boxes of "100 paper clips". The activity requires students to apply three lessons from inferential statistics, starting with a hypothesis test and including confidence intervals as well as tolerance intervals.
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Probability, Teaching Methods, Hypothesis Testing
Dinov, Ivo D.; Palanimalai, Selvam; Khare, Ashwini; Christou, Nicolas – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2018
Statistical inference involves drawing scientifically-based conclusions describing natural processes or observable phenomena from datasets with intrinsic random variation. We designed, implemented, and validated a new portable randomization-based statistical inference infrastructure (http://socr.umich.edu/HTML5/Resampling_Webapp) that blends…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Sampling, Simulation, Computer Oriented Programs
Howington, Eric B. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2017
Few introductory statistics courses consider statistical inference for the median. This article argues in favour of adding a confidence interval for the median to the first statistics course. Several methods suitable for introductory statistics students are identified and briefly reviewed.
Descriptors: Statistics, Intervals, Statistical Inference, Introductory Courses
Tarlow, Kevin R. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2016
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a test of "mean" differences, but the reference to "variances" in the name is often overlooked. Classroom activities are presented to illustrate how ANOVA works with emphasis on how to think critically about inferential reasoning.
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Teaching Methods, Inferences, Statistical Analysis
Kaimi, Irene – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2015
This articles argues in favour of a recently introduced approach to statistical inference which focuses on understanding the data generating process. A comprehensive example supports the discussion.
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Statistical Data, Data Collection, Probability
Bedwell, Mike – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2015
This article is based on classroom application of a problem story constructed by Amos Tversky in the 1970s. His intention was to evaluate human beings' intuitions about statistical inference. The problem was revisited by his colleague, the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman. The aim of this article is to show how popular science textbooks can…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Sciences
Lu, Yonggang; Henning, Kevin S. S. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2013
Spurred by recent writings regarding statistical pragmatism, we propose a simple, practical approach to introducing students to a new style of statistical thinking that models nature through the lens of data-generating processes, not populations. (Contains 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Statistics, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Statistical Inference
Holmes, Karen Y.; Dodd, Brett A. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2012
In this article, we discuss a collection of active learning activities derived from classic psychology studies that illustrate the appropriate use of descriptive and inferential statistics. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Psychology, Teaching Methods, Class Activities
Ernst, Michael D. – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2012
We describe an approach to teaching probability that minimizes the amount of class time spent on the topic while also providing a meaningful (dice-rolling) activity to get students engaged. The activity, which has a surprising outcome, illustrates the basic ideas of informal probability and how probability is used in statistical inference.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Statistical Inference, Probability, Teaching Methods
Petocz, Peter; Sowey, Eric – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2012
The term "data snooping" refers to the practice of choosing which statistical analyses to apply to a set of data after having first looked at those data. Data snooping contradicts a fundamental precept of applied statistics, that the scheme of analysis is to be planned in advance. In this column, the authors shall elucidate the…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries, Questioning Techniques
Beaujean, A. Alexander; Cooper-Twamley, Susan – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2010
While bootstrapping is a computationally intensive procedure, teaching about the concept does not necessarily require any more technology than a simple calculator. This article describes an interactive teaching approach for introducing bootstrapping without using a statistics program or a computer.
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Calculators, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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