Resource Links

1. Course Development and Pedagogical Resources A. Learning Styles
Assessment of Learning Style Preference Soloman & Felder, 1993 (http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSpage.html) Offers both an online and paper-and-pencil assessment.



Peer Review of Learning Styles Questionnaire (Soloman & Felder, 1993) (http://www.merlot.org/artifact/PeerReviewDetail.po?rOid=3000000000000450713) Peer review discussing validity and other aspects of the learning styles questionnaire.

B. Syllabi and Lecture Resources
Against All Odds – Video Series (http://www.learner.org/resources/resource.html?uid=65&sj=) An instructional video series on statistics for college students and other adults. Provides 26 half-hour programs with many vignettes presenting data collection, real-life applications, and more. The site lists a complete description of each program.



Against All Odds: Vignettes and Detailed Timings (http://www.statsci.org/class/aao.html) A complete list of vignettes and detailed timings of each of the Against All Odds videos. Very useful for integrating video segments into lectures



Chance Lecture Videos (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/ChanceLecture/download.html) The Chance Lecture Videos available for downloading. Includes many topics and good resources for lectures. Complete instructions provided.



Portraits of Statisticians by Peter Lee at University of York (http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lifework.htm) The life and work of many statisticians. Includes portraits.



Statistics Teaching and Resources Library (http://go.okstate.edu/~bilder/starlibrary/)



Random Statistical Quote of the Day – Arizona State University (http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/cgi-bin/quoteme)

C. Applets
Exploring Data (http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/index.htm) Exploring Data by Education Queensland, offers resources for teaching and demonstrating statistics. Includes many interactive statistical applets.

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



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



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



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



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



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



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

II. Online Data Sources
Data and Statistics Library (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/) An online library of datasets and stories illustrating basic statistics. Data can be downloaded directly from the site.



OzDASL- Australian Data and Story Library (http://www.statsci.org/data/first.html) The online library has many datasets easy to download. References and backgrounds on each are provided.



The World Fact Book – Produced by the CIA (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html) Provides statistics from around the globe.

III. Professional Resources
The American Statistical Association (http://www.amstat.org/index.html)



The Statistical Sciences (http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/d/d1/index.shtml) 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 (http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/stat/statdata.htm)

IV. Other Useful Resources A. Web-Authoring Tools
Web Page Authoring: Internet Resources and HTML guides (http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/web/tryweb.htm)



Netiquette – Etiquette of the Internet (http://www.albion.com/netiquette/index.html)

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