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Activity Number:
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396
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008 : 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 - #300432 |
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Title:
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Strategies for Increasing the Effectiveness of Statistics Teaching in Business Curricula
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Author(s):
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Bodapati V. Gandhi*+
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Companies:
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University of Puerto Rico
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Address:
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Calle Azorin 710, Mayaguez, PR, 00682,
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Keywords:
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business statistics ; teaching ; textbooks ; curriculum
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Abstract:
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Instructors in business statistics face two constraints: the limited time to teach their course, and the knowledge and skills students have coming into the course. Textbooks have changed considerably over the last three decades, due to changes in technology as well as the addition of cases and the introduction of additional statistical techniques. The structure of degree requirements has often not kept up pace. For students to fully integrate their knowledge of statistics as a research tool into their future course and professional work, changes are necessary to texts, prerequisite courses and related courses. The paper also discusses the efforts academic committees and administrators should make in order to concretize these changes.
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