This is a series of activities to introduce students to the use of statistics in every-day life.
Type of Material:
Drill and Practice
Recommended Uses:
High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
Technical Requirements:
Any browser
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Activities to improve the vocabulary, learning or study skill strategy assignments including growth mindset and metacognition
Target Student Population:
Students in an elementary statistics class
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
This material invites the students to do some retrospective work themselves to improve their performance in statistics through a series of activities. It includes videos on strategies to successfully complete the course.
Concerns:
The material is not current nor relevant. Students will not necessarily be motivated to do the skill strategy assignments. Nowadays the students do not like to do things without being rewarded for them, they want to get some extra points.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Good attempt to provide this kind of material for the students. If the instructor is willing to customize the materials for their own class, this can be used as a tool to provide students with strategies for success.
Concerns:
There should be an introductory question for the students, for example, Why is statistics is important for you? It would be helpful to know why the students think is important to learn statistics and so they could find it useful or appealing to learn statistics and to use the activities proposed in the assignments. There are not a clear set of objectives in this material. There are five activities to do different things, but they are not really activities to introduce students to the use of statistics in everyday life.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
For students in the specific course at the college where it was created, it is very easy to use.
Concerns:
This material is not engaging. It does not contain activities to introduce students to the use of statistics in every-day life. There are several references to course numbers that will not be relevant to students at different colleges. For example, “Students are asked to reflect on their experience in MATH 0996”. The discussion items state “Additionally, students must reply to at least two classmates' initial posts.” It will not be clear to students what constitutes a reply that is considered high quality.
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