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Activity Number:
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149
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 7, 2006 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #307538 |
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Title:
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Integrating Statistical Knowledge through an Undergraduate Capstone Course
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Author(s):
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John Walker*+ and Heather Smith
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Companies:
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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Address:
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Statistics Department, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93407,
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Keywords:
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statistics education ; consulting ; learning objectives
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Abstract:
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Cal Poly's statistics curriculum requires a capstone course in statistical communication and consulting for all undergraduate statistics majors. One objective of the course is to provide students with a capstone experience that helps them to integrate the knowledge and skills from their previous statistics courses. This is difficult because many students think of courses as self-contained units rather than seeing how they fit together in the big picture. Our curriculum itself is partly at fault since little time is spent in class describing how each particular course fits into the whole. We discuss specific difficulties that students have in integrating key skills and understandings from different statistics courses to address consulting problems. We also describe ideas to change major courses to encourage more integration throughout the curriculum.
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