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Activity Number:
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338
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #305396 |
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Title:
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Statistics: Telling the Whole Story
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Author(s):
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Nancy Pfenning and Kaleab Abebe*+
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Companies:
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University of Pittsburgh
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Address:
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, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206,
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Keywords:
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teaching strategies ; big picture ; global summary
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Abstract:
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Introductory statistics courses are typically so focused on presentation of individual topics that students "can't see the forest for the trees." A network of teaching strategies has been designed to convey to students the whole story, not just individual topics. Besides presenting these techniques, we report results for a survey that asked students to tell what they had learned overall in their statistics course. Students taught with the usual textbooks tended to report having learned specific topics, such as how to calculate a mean or do a z test. Students taught with the big-picture approach (using the author's new textbook) were much more likely to provide a global summary, such as how data should be produced and summarized and how-to make inference about a population based on a sample. We will discuss benefits of training students to maintain a global perspective.
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