Statistics Education Teaching and Learning Online Resources: Find Them Using CAUSEweb

1. Statistics Education Teaching and Learning Online Resources: Find Them Using CAUSEweb Ginger Holmes Rowell, Scott McDaniel, Lisa Green, Megan Hall Middle Tennessee State University United States Conference on Teaching Statistics May 19, 2007 Columbus, Ohio

2. Overview • CAUSE, CAUSEweb, & MERLOT • Teaching and Learning Cycle (TLC) • Searching & Finding Items • TLC Assignment • Share • Wrap-up

4. www.CAUSEweb.org • Getting Started • Guidelines for Research • Readings & Publications • Literature Index • Dissertations • Working Groups & Projects • News • Calendar • CAUSEway Workshops • USCOTS • Webinars • Future opportunities (keep checking this website) • Digital Library for Undergraduate Statistics Education

5. Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching http://www.merlot.org and http://statistics.merlot.org/

6. PowerPoint slides • Reference Materials • History • Demonstrations: • Applets • Videos • Simulations • Data Sets • Case Studies • Guided Demos • Simulations • Laboratories • Applets • Tutorials • Teacher-directed assessments • Laboratories • Homework Problems • Self-directed assessments • Immediate Feedback Lecture Explore Assess Teaching and Learning Cycle

7. Lecture Explore Assess TLC: Regression Applets like this one from SticiGui Java Tools allow students to explore changes in the data to see how they affect the regression line. An in-class activity from the STAR Library can help introduce the concept of regression. Using self-tests like this one from Biometry: Statistics for Ecology, students can submit their answers and receive immediate feedback regarding questions answered correctly and questions or topics needing improvement.

8. Lecture TLC: Regression http://www.causeweb.org/repository/StarLibrary/activities/buskirk_young2001/ www.statcrunch.com

9. Explore TLC: Regression http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/~stark/Java/Html/Correlation.htm

10. Assess TLC: Regression http://aerg.canberra.edu.au/cgi-bin/tiegen?/share/www/envirostats/bm/L6/ffq12.tie

11. Lecture Explore Assess TLC: Hypothesis Testing DIGSTATS contains examples and data sets, like the one below about Acid Rain. http://www.cvgs.k12.va.us/DIGSTATS/Sitemap.html The Intuitor site contains an introduction to hypothesis testing, relating it to what happens at a criminal trial. http://www.intuitor.com/statistics/T1T2Errors.html The ARTIST database contains questions classified by topic and learning outcomes. https://ore.gen.umn.edu/artist/index.html

12. DIG Stats http://www.cvgs.k12.va.us/DIGSTATS/Sitemap.html

13. ARTIST: Assessment Resource Tools for Improving Statistical Thinking Login: rowell@mtsu.edu Password: ginger123 https://ore.gen.umn.edu/artist/index.html

14. Searching & Finding Resources • Ways to search • Browse Categories • Material Type • Statistical Topic • Regular search • Advanced search • Example

15. Searching: Browse Categories

16. Searching: Regular Search • CAUSEweb Search Tools • Keywords • Statistical Topic • Material Type • Application Area (i.e. subject) • Resource Type • Object Format

17. Searching: Keywords • Type your keyword in the search field. • Click the title of the item to display the record. • Click the link to your keyword to see all the items labeled by that keyword.

18. Searching Keywords: Biology

19. Agriculture Art and Music Astronomy Biology Business Chemistry Computer Science Engineering Geology Health Science Humanities Mathematics Physics Political Science Psychology Sociology Sports and Games Keywords: Application Areas

20. Resource Types Animation Case Study Collection Drill and Practice Lecture/ Presentation Quiz/Test Reference Materials Simulation Sound Tutorial Webpage Object Formats CD-ROM Executable Program Flash html Java Applet Javascript jpeg pdf Shockwave Video Xml zip Keywords

21. Searching: Advanced Search

22. Results Page Title – link to full record Description of material URL – link to resource For the Record

23. On the Record Relation: related materials

24. Searching Hint • Combine Content Keywords with Browse Categories with Resource Types • Collection + Applet + Tutorial • T-test + Analysis Tool • Analysis Tool + Collection • …

25. Examples • Content Searching • Resource Type Searching • Application Area Searching • Format Searching • Combination Searching

26. Content Searching: Central Limit Theorem Statistical Java: http://kitchen.stat.vt.edu/~sundar/java/applets/CLT.html

27. Resource Type Searching: Case Study National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science:http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/markov/markov.html

28. Application Area Searching: Business Practice Questions for Business Statistics: http://www2.gsu.edu/~dscbms/ibs/qcontent.html

29. Against All Odds: http://www.learner.org/resources/series65.html Object Formats Searching: Video

30. Combination Searching:Applet + Tutorial WISE: http://wise.cgu.edu/

31. Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics http://illuminations.nctm.org/index2.html http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/ http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html http://kitchen.stat.vt.edu/~sundar/java/applets/ Collections

32. “Collection” but not “Collections”

33. Woo-hoo!This is it! Finding Is Better than Searching* *When you are hurrying to get ready for class.

34. TLC Assignment • Get into groups. • Pick a topic from Intro Stat. • Find items to fit “Lecture/Explore/Assess.” • URL: • Share!

35. Wrap-Up • CAUSEweb is a great place to find materials for teaching statistics. • If you have any questions or ideas, please contact us: • rowell@mtsu.edu • smcdanie@mtsu.edu • lbgreen@mtsu.edu • If you are interested in reviewing contact: • editor@causeweb.org