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Abstract #303752

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Activity Number: 27
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 7, 2005 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #303752
Title: A Collaboration: Statistics Class and Human Physiology Lab
Author(s): Diane Fisher*+ and S. Renee Robichaux
Companies: Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University
Address: 220 Debby Drive, Lafayette, LA, 70503, United States
Keywords: introductory statistics ; teaching across the curriculum
Abstract:

Students think of science and statistics as two distinctly different, unrelated disciplines. The purpose of our collaboration between the introductory statistics class and the human physiology laboratory is to emphasize statistical thinking and understanding in order to help students appreciate the role of statistics in the scientific process and in life. Nearly all students taking human physiology lab are in the allied health fields, and all allied health majors are required to take introductory statistics. There are other majors represented in the statistics classes and, even though they are not involved in the collection of the data in the labs, this study provides them with the opportunity of working with "real" data. In our pilot study with 49 statistics students, 47 said working with the physiology lab data helped them learn and understand the material presented in statistics class. It is our expectation that this collaborative effort, focusing on data collection in human physiology lab and analyses in statistics classes, illustrates to students the interrelationship among statistics and science outside of the classroom.

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