Statistics Projects in a PIC-MATH Course

• Activity Number: 128 - Curricular Considerations for Statistics and Data Science Education
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Monday, July 30, 2018 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
• Author(s): Debra Hydorn*
• Companies: University of Mary Washington
• Keywords: Statistics Education; Project Based Learning; Statistical Practice

Abstract

Preparation for Industrial Careers in the Mathematical Sciences (PIC MATH) is an MAA and SIAM program supported by NSF to promote faculty development of a course to prepare students for careers in business, industry or government. After attending a five-day workshop, participants are expected to teach a PIC MATH projects course. The workshop provides ideas for generating projects and guidelines for structuring the PIC MATH course. I attended the workshop in Spring 2016 and offered my projects course Spring 2017. In this presentation I will describe the four projects I developed for the course, how I prepared students to work on the projects, how student work was evaluated, and how the course and projects prepared them for a statistical career.