Link Library

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I. Course Development and Pedagogical Resources

A. Learning Styles

Assessment of Learning Style Preference Soloman & Felder, 1993
There is both an online assessment and paper-and-pencil available.

Peer Review of Learning Styles Questionnaire (Soloman & Felder, 1993)
The peer review discussing validity and other aspects of the learning styles questionnaire.

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B. Syllabi and Lecture Resources

Against All Odds - Video Series
This is a video instructional series on statistics for college students and other adults. There are 26 half-hour programs with many vignettes that present data collection, real-life applications, and a great deal more. A complete description of each program is listed on the website.

Against All Odds: Vignettes and Detailed Timings
A complete list of vignettes and the detailed timings in each of videos of the Against All Odds series is available at this website. This is very useful for integrating video segments into their lectures

Chance Lecture Videos
The Chance Lecture Videos can be downloaded from this website. There are many topics and good resources for lectures. Complete instructions are provided.

Portraits of Statisticians by Peter Lee at University of York
The life and work of many statisticians, including portraits, are available here.

Statistics Teaching and Resources Library

The World Lecture Hall - University of Texas at Austin
This site is a mega resource for syllabi, lectures, activities, and demonstrations

Random Statistical Quote of the Day - Arizona State University

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C. Applets

Exploring Data by Education Queensland
Has many resources for teaching and demonstrating statistics. Many interactive statistical applets are available.

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D. Articles

Fillebrown, S. (1994), Using projects in an elementary statistics course for non-science majors, Journal of Statistics Education, [Online], 2(2).
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v2n2/fillebrown.html

Gal, I., & Ginsberg, L. (1994). The role of beliefs and attitudes in learning statistics: Towards an assessment framework. Journal of Statistics Education v.2, (2).
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v2n2/gal.html

Garfield, J. (1993), Teaching statistics using small-group cooperative learning," Journal of Statistics Education, [Online], 1(1).
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v1n1/garfield.html

Gnanadesikan, M., Scheaffer, R. L., Watkins, A. E., & Witmer, J.A. (1997). An activity-based statistics course. Journal of Statistics Education, [Online], 5(2).
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v5n2/gnanadesikan.html

Elmes, Sylvia (2000). Questioning in statistics. Paper presented at the Effective Teaching and Learning in University Conference, Queensland, Australia.
http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/conferences/teach_conference00/abstractsA-H.html#Elmes

Keeler, C. M., & Steinhorst, R. K. (1995). Using small groups to promote active learning in the introductory statistics course: A report from the field. Journal of Statistics Education, [Online], 3(2).
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v3n2/keeler.html

Mackisack, M. (1994). What is the use of experiments conducted by statistics students? Journal of Statistics Education, [Online], 2(1).
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v2n1/mackisack.html

Scheaffer, R. L., & Lee, C. (2000). The case for undergraduate statistics.
http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2000/usei/case.html

Smith, G. (1998). Learning statistics by doing statistics. Journal of Statistics Education, 6 (3).
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v6n3/smith.html

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E. Other Teaching Resources

Statistics.com
This website has some great information and reports useful for both stat and research methods. Read the column on lying and statistics.

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II. Instructional Resources

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Statistics

Scheaffer, R. L., & Lee, C. (2000). The case for undergraduate statistics. This is a good article discussing the importance of learning statistics.

Statistical Assessment Service
A non-partisan, non-profit research organization in Washington, D.C. Its focus is the accurate use of scientific and social research in public policy. There are many good articles and examples of error or misuse of statistics in the press.

Chapter 2: Frequency Distribution

Resources for Students and the Media

Polling Report.com
A collection of recent poll results on business, politics and society from many different sources. Shows table summaries and changes over time

The National Sleep Foundation
Statistics with frequency distributions of a 2000 study just released.

Chapter 3: Graphs

Histogram Applet by R. West, University of South Carolina
This is an interactive applet that demonstrates how bin width affects a histogram. The durations of eruptions of the Old Faithful geyser is the dataset used.

Histogram Simulation and Applet by Rice Virtual Lab
The exercise is a nice demonstrating bin width changes. Students can choose a dataset and explore the changes.

The Gallery of Data Visualization and the Best and Worst Statistical Graphics
This website has examples of some of the best and worst published graphs.

Chapter 4: Measures of Central Tendency

The Data Applet Students can interact with this applet by selecting the dataset and computing measures of central tendency or boxplots and comparing with the applet answer.

Tall Parents Have Shorter Children
A very brief discussion about Galton and Pearson's father and son studies. Galton termed this "regression to mediocrity."

Teaching Applets by Vestac
Many applets that demonstrate central tendency. Interactive and nicely done Boxplots are also drawn.

The Mean and Median Simulations and Demonstration by Rice Virtual Lab
The demonstration begins with an applet and demonstrates mean and media. By changing the histogram, the central tendency can be modified.

Chapter 5: Measures of Variability

Baseball Salary Activity with Data and Activity Sheet by Ed Malczewski
This activity explores the concept of variance.

A Quick Time Movie - Demonstrating the Mean by Berrie

Teaching Applets by Vestac
Many applets that demonstrate variability. Interactive and nicely done.

Chapter 6: Scales Scores and Standard Scores: How to Change Apples into Oranges

Scaled Scores and Anxiety by Paul Kenyon, University of Plymouth
Show the relationship between scaled anxiety scores and population percentile ranks. Applied use of course material is demonstrated nicely here.

Chapter 7: The Normal Curve

A Quick Time Movie Demonstrating Normal Distribution by Berrie

The Normal Distribution Applet by Narasimhan
Demonstrates the changes to the distribution as n increases and/or the standard deviation increases.

Chapter 8: Correlation

Applet Demonstrating Restricted Range on Correlation by Rice Virtual Lab
Demonstration of the effect of restricted range. Students pick data sets and the scatterplot, r, regression equation, and standard error of the estimate are displayed.

Guessing Correlations by John Mardin
Match up scatterplots with correlation coefficients. Instructors that would like to set up a group so that their students can compete among themselves can send a request to stat100.

The life and work of Karl Pearson
The Karl Pearson Reader's Guide by John Aldrich, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Interact With a Scatterplot - See Different Correlation Coefficients
This is a great way to see what different correlation coefficients look like on a scatterplot. You select the coefficient and the applet changes the scatterplot to match your selection.

Chapter 9: Regression

Graphing Tools - 2D and 3D Scatterplots by J. Behrens, Arizona State University
This is a great demonstration for understanding regression. There are clear instructions to use the applets, explanation of concept, and an activity.

Regression Applet by R. West, University of South Carolina
An interactive applet that gives students an opportunity to see and subsequently understand the effect of outliers on regression analysis.

Chapter 10: Probability Theory and Sampling

Tutorial on the Central Limit Theorem by WISE
Illustrates the basic principles of the Central Limit Theorem and enhances conceptual understanding of inferential statistics.

Sampling Distributions of the Mean by WISE
This tutorial teaches fundamental properties of sampling distributions of means such as accuracy of sample means, probability, and effects of sample size.

Probability by Surprise (Games Using Applets)
The Birthday Problem, Say Red, The Collector, The Matching Problem, Random Scatter, Traffic jams, Visualizing Probabilities, and more. The site has class notes for teaching probability that are used in an Introduction to Probability class taught at Stanford. The Stanford notes refer to these games and other web resources.

Miscellaneous
The International Shark Attack File located on the website of the Florida Museum of History has statistics that could be useful for probability and other topics.

Chapter 11: Experimental Design

Choosing the Correct Statistical Test by WISE (Web Interface for Statistic Education)
This exercise poses different research scenarios and asks you what statistical test you would use to answer the research question of interest. An interesting approach to working with "real data". This is especially useful before the final exam.

The Logic of Hypothesis Testing by WISE
This tutorial serves to introduce the logic of hypothesis testing using z-scores.

Sample Size Calculator
Practice estimating the sample size you would need for an experiment.

The z-test by WISE
A tutorial of the z-test and hypothesis testing.

Chapter 12: t-Tests

A t-test tutorial: Comparing Cultures by WISE
Using this tutorial, students get experience applying descriptive and inferential statistics.

Chapter 13: One-Way Analysis of Variance

One-Way Fixed Effects Applet by R Lenth, University of Iowa
An applet designed to solve power and sample size problems.

Applet Comparing t-test to ANOVA by Lewis, Kent State University

Chapter 14: Factorial Analysis of Variance: Two-Way

Two-Way ANOVA Applet by Rice Virtual Lab
Demonstration and exercise of a two-factor ANOVA. Students select dataset. Venn diagram shows sum of squares.

Chapter 15: Nonparametric Statistics: Chi-Square, Mann-Whitney U Test, Wilcoxon T Test, and the Kruskal-Wallis Test

Chi-Square Applet Testing Deviations by Rice Virtual Lab
Easy to use demonstration. Students select data set and follow easy directions.

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III. Online Data Sources

Data and Statistics Library
An online library of datasets and stories that illustrate basic statistics. Data can be downloaded directly from the site for use in your course.

FedStats
One-stop data shopping -- data from over 100 U. S. Federal Agencies. Try the A-Z area first. Data are available in PDF format.

National Center for Education Statistics

Digest of Education Statistics
The archive has data on many topics ranging from the number of schools and colleges to educational attainment.

OzDASL- Australian Data and Story Library
The online library has many datasets that are easy to download. References and backgrounds on each are provided.

StatVillage - An Online Village
An online hypothetical Canadian village. Visit this town and sample the population or collect data from a sample. The data collected can be downloaded from the site.

The World Fact Book - Produced by the CIA
There are many statistics from around the globe here.

U. S. Census Bureau
2000 Census data are available now. Try the Fact Finder link, identifying useful dataset is much easier.

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IV. Professional Resources

The American Statistical Association

The Journal of Statistics Education
An International Journal on Teaching and Learning Statistics.

The Statistical Sciences
Operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Administration whose mission is to bring statistical reasoning and rigor to multi-disciplinary scientific investigations through development, application, and communication of cutting-edge statistical sciences research.

Statistical Data Locators

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V. Other Useful Resources

A. Web-Authoring Tools

Web Page Authoring: Internet Resources and HTML guides

Netiquette - Etiquette of the Internet

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