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Sebastianelli, Rose – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The basic business statistics course is ideal for incorporating multiple objectives related to program learning goals common at most business schools. Along with quantitative reasoning skills, activities are described that allow the measurement of student outcomes related to oral communication and ethics. Strategies include the hidden curriculum…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Business Administration Education, Statistics, Thinking Skills
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Campbell, Jennifer; Gibbs, Alison L.; Najafi, Hedieh; Severinski, Cody – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
The advent of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has created opportunities for learning that are clearly in high demand, but the direction in which MOOCs should evolve to best meet the interests and needs of learners is less apparent. Motivated by our interest in whether there are potential and purpose for archived MOOCs to be used as learning…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Intention, Student Behavior
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Sorto, M. Alejandra – School Science and Mathematics, 2011
The purpose of the study reported herein was to identify the important aspects of statistical knowledge that students in the middle school grades in United States are expected to learn as well as what the teachers are expected to teach. A systematic study of 49 states standards and one set of national standards was used to identify these important…
Descriptors: National Standards, Data Analysis, Statistics, Academic Standards
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Jacobs, Keith W. – Teaching of Psychology, 1980
Realizing that students usually approach an introductory statistics course on the college level with a mixed set of fears, a course instructor devised a course introduction which emphasized that statistics were no more than tools to make sense out of research data and could be used by students much in the way that other tools were used. (DB)
Descriptors: Course Content, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Psychology
Bliss, Leonard B.; Tashakkori, Abbas – 2001
This paper discusses the objectives that would be appropriate for statistics classes for students who are not majoring in statistics, evaluation, or quantitative research design. These "non-majors" should be able to choose appropriate analytical methods for specific sets of data based on the research question and the nature of the data, and they…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Content, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Robinson, Mary – 1974
The guide, designed for sixth, seventh, or eighth grade teachers and students, presents five mathematics instructional units for career exploration related to the occupational clusters transportation, communication, manufacturing, health, and business and office occupations. The units deal specifically with: shippers of household goods, the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Computer Science Education, Course Content