The Golden Arches: An Approach to Teaching Statistics in a First-Year University Service Course
| Autor: | Belinda A. Chiera, Małgorzata W. Korolkiewicz |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Korolkiewicz, Małgorzata Wiktoria, Chiera, Belinda Ann |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Engineering
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Context (language use) large first year classes Course (navigation) service teaching Perception Service (economics) Statistics ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education medicine Anxiety Relevance (information retrieval) medicine.symptom Statistics education business Curriculum maths anxiety media_common |
| Zdroj: | Topics from Australian Conferences on Teaching Statistics ISBN: 9781493906024 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-4939-0603-1_9 |
| Popis: | The realities of large first year service courses add substantially to the challenges of creating an environment conducive to learning. Given the increased understanding of the importance of context in Statistics education, discipline relevance is a key consideration in designing effective and engaging curriculum. However, students enter university with increasingly diverse levels of competency in quantitative subjects, and a survey conducted in the first week of teaching typically reveals negative perceptions of Mathematics, and by extension of Statistics, tempered with anxiety about quantitative subjects in general. We present strategies to overcome some of these challenges in relation to a quantitative methods course for first year Business students. Analysis of a follow-up survey at the end of the course reveals a positive shift in students’ attitudes and improvement in student success in the course. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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