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Implementing Statway at Austin Community College

Implementing Statway at Austin Community College. Gustavo Cepparo, Colleen Neroda, Mary Parker http://www.austincc.edu/math Follow the link to Statway. Why Statway ?.

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Implementing Statway at Austin Community College

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  1. Implementing Statwayat Austin Community College Gustavo Cepparo, Colleen Neroda, Mary Parker http://www.austincc.edu/math Follow the link to Statway.

  2. Why Statway? Students haven’t been choosing to take statistics because they see it as hard, even when the faculty in their majors talk with them about why it would be useful. Haven’t had a good prerequisite course for it.

  3. How did we organize it? • A two-semester sequence (fall and spring) • The two Math for Stat courses are new courses we created.

  4. What course materials? For both semesters: • Statway lessons and support materials • Our usual MATH 1342 textbook and software (David Moore’s Basic Practice of Statistics) • MyMathTest, in which we will create worksheets of appropriate developmental math topics.

  5. Why this organization? • Better for transferability to have students take MATH 1342 than create a new course • We will do somewhat more of the math in the first semester by rearranging the Statway materials to some extent.

  6. Prerequisite • What? Basic Math Skills or an appropriate Assessment Test score • Why? • Studies show that, overall, the group students who need to complete a sequence of developmental math courses before going on have low persistence rates in college. • The consortium is writing the materials to be accessible at that level.

  7. Who set the standards? • Statistics standards developed in cooperation with the Education section of the American Statistical Association. • Developmental mathematics standards developed with the American Mathematical Assn of Two-Year Colleges and the Mathematical Association of America.

  8. How are we recruiting? • Presentation to counselors and advisors, with handouts. • Handouts for students “Do you need to take statistics?” • Handouts for students in developmental math classes about pathways through developmental math • Web pages

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