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Welcome. Course name Faculty name. YOUR COURSE MATERIALS. Utts/Heckard: Mind on Statistics, 3e You will… be tested receive homework assignments have reading assignments …from these materials. WHY DO I NEED THE BOOK?.

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  1. Welcome Course name Faculty name

  2. YOUR COURSE MATERIALS • Utts/Heckard: • Mind on Statistics, 3e • You will… • be tested • receive homework assignments • have reading assignments • …from these materials

  3. WHY DO I NEED THE BOOK? • Nine in ten professors (90%) say that students would do better if they made greater user of the assigned textbook. • Students’ pass rates, retention rates and grades improve when they employ supplemental materials in addition to their textbooks. • Zogby International, 2006

  4. WHAT’S SO DIFFERENT ABOUT THE NEW EDITION? • 30% more exercises of all skill levels, including over 350 Basic Exercises which focus on practice and review. • Chapters 9-13—which contain the core material on sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing—have been reorganized. • In Summary boxes—more than 50 in all—appear at appropriate points to reinforce key concepts and calculations.

  5. GET THE GRADE RESOURCES! • You may be required or recommended to use some of the following resources: • Enhanced WebAssign • ThomsonNOW • Student Solutions Manual • Study Guide • Activities Workbook

  6. REGISTERING AND LOG-IN 0 USER NAME: PASSWORD: INSTITUTION CODE:

  7. REGISTERING AND LOG-IN 0 www.webassign.net

  8. ENTERING ACCESS CODES 0

  9. CHANGING YOUR PASSWORD 0 Stat 101, section 6, Fall 2005

  10. COMPLETING ASSIGNMENTS 0 Stat 101, section 6, Fall 2005

  11. SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT 0 Utts, Mind on Statistics, 3e

  12. ENTERING FREE RESPONSES

  13. ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION 0

  14. HINTS AND FEEDBACK 0

  15. REQUESTING HELP 0 Stat 101, Section 6

  16. CLASS CALENDAR 0

  17. COMMUNICATION 0 Stat 101, Section 6

  18. TECHNICAL SUPPORT http://www.webassign.net/info/customer.html Phone support: (800) 955-8275 9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET Monday – Friday E-mail support: support@webassign.net 9:00 am - 9:00 pm ET Monday - Friday

  19. WHAT IS THOMSONNOW? • ThomsonNOW is an easy-to-use online resource that helps you study in less time to get the grade you want-NOW! • Diagnostic Pre-tests and Post-tests • Personalized Study Plan • Exercises • Interactive Examples • Explorations

  20. WILL THOMSONNOW HELP ME GET A BETTER GRADE? • 87.3% of students agree using ThomsonNOW regularly helped them perform better on exams. • 83.9% of students agree that Personalized Study was a valuable study tool. • 95% of students responded that using ThomsonNOW on a regular basis helped them get a better grade • 82.7% of students are likely to tell a friend about ThomsonNOW YES!

  21. WHAT DO I KNOW…PRE-TESTS

  22. WHAT DO I NEED TO LEARN?...LEARNING PLAN

  23. WHAT HAVE I LEARNED?...POST-TEST

  24. TECHNICAL SUPPORT http://www.thomsonedu.com/support

  25. ANYTHING TO HELP STUDENTS WITHOUT COMPUTERS? • Activities Workbook • These activities guide you through key features of the text, help you understand statistical concepts, provide hands-on data collection and interpretation team-work, include exercises with tips incorporated for solution strategies, and provide bonus dataset activities.

  26. ANYTHING TO HELP STUDENTS WITHOUT COMPUTERS? • Student Solutions Manual • Intended to supplement the brief answers for selected exercises provided in the back of the book. It includes fully worked-out solutions for those exercises, and also provides hints, tips, and additional interpretation for specific exercises.

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  28. STUDENTS…PLEASE READ If your textbook doesn’t already come with the helpful study aids we’ve discussed, go to your local college bookstore or go on-line to iChapters.com.

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