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Bateiha, Summer; Marchionda, Hope; Autin, Melanie – Journal of Statistics Education, 2020
Many students who enroll in introductory statistics courses do not have positive attitudes about the subject. A 2012 wide-ranging study by Schau and Emmioglu showed that student attitudes do not tend to improve after completing an introductory statistics course. However, there is a need for more studies about attitudes in introductory statistics…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Introductory Courses, College Mathematics, Statistics
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Soesmanto, Tommy; Bonner, Suzanne – Journal of Statistics Education, 2019
In recent years, the Australian tertiary education sector embraced the gradual adaption of the dual mode system in course delivery in universities and higher degree education providers. In such systems, students have the option, as well as the flexibility, to undertake the same course in a face-to-face (F2F) environment and/or an online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Synchronous Communication, Introductory Courses, Statistics
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Winquist, Jennifer R.; Carlson, Keith A. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2014
In this paper, we compare an introductory statistics course taught using a flipped classroom approach to the same course taught using a traditional lecture based approach. In the lecture course, students listened to lecture, took notes, and completed homework assignments. In the flipped course, students read relatively simple chapters and answered…
Descriptors: Statistics, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
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Jaki, Thomas – Journal of Statistics Education, 2009
Courses for non-statistics majors (service courses) play an integral role in teaching statistics and pose some unique challenges. In these courses, students are often undermotivated on the one hand while on the other hand the syllabus frequently is overly crowded. In this manuscript we target the issues arising from the latter problem by making…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Nonmajors, Biology, Statistics
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Johnson, H. Dean; Dasgupta, Nairanjana – Journal of Statistics Education, 2005
Although there has been a considerable amount of work evaluating the effects of different (non-traditional) instructional styles, inquiries into students' preferences of instructional style have been few. From 1998-2001, we surveyed introductory statistics students regarding various aspects of their class preferences, especially the teaching style…
Descriptors: Statistics, Introductory Courses, Teaching Styles, Lecture Method