WISE Stuff
A key motivation for developing the WISE site is to take
advantage of the incredible resources freely available on
the Internet and the special interactive capability that it
provides. Dynamic applets allow students to try their own
‘What if…’ scenarios. Yet to be most effective, students
need guidance and access to help.
Below are some resources for teaching and learning
statistics. We will continue to add these resources in this
section.
NOTE: A link to
instructor's notes on using the
Signal Detection Theory
tutorial has been added.
Last updated: November 14, 2006
Using WISE Tutorials
Each WISE tutorial includes suggestions for how that tutorial may be used for instruction.
The tutorials are modular to provide flexibility. These
tutorials cover introductory
statistics concepts such as hypothesis testing, sampling,
and power. Most tutorials feature an interactive applet
that allows students to simulate statistical techniques such
as sampling in order to see how different parameters affect
relevant statistics.
The tutorials can be used as laboratory exercises
with faculty supervision or they can be assigned as independent homework. Some tutorials have
follow-up questions that students can turn in for faculty evaluation.
The tutorials are designed to supplement traditional teaching materials, addressing specific
topics that instructors may have difficulty presenting with traditional classroom technologies.
This tool serves to promote self-paced learning and to provide a means for advanced students to
review concepts.
The first four tutorials are in the order that matches most introductory statistics texts.
Instructor's Notes explain how to best use the tutorials in class settings:
Using WISE Applets
The applets can be used for classroom demonstrations
separately from the tutorials,
You may enlarge displays of
applets by decreasing screen resolution. This may come in handy when using applets for
demonstrations. Keep in mind though, that changing
your resolution, may re-arrange items on your desktop.
Tips for Using Applets for Demonstrations (more demo
guides to be posted):
Excel Downloads
StatWISE Distributions is
an Excel workbook replaces tables for common distributions, including z, t,
F, chi-square, and binomial. StatWISE is superior to tables because it allows more
possible values than are included in tables.
Demos Using Excel (more coming later)
Short Teaching Papers on Selected Topics
Quick Guides
Downloading Data from ICPSR
The WISE Quick Guide on
downloading data
in SPSS format from the Inter-Consortium for Political and Social Research
(ICPSR)
website, which offers datasets on topics such as the census,
health, history, sociology, and education.
Enlarge Applet Displays for Demos
To enlarge displays of applets for presentations or demonstrations, you may
decrease screen resolution.
Changing your resolution, however, may re-arrange items on your desktop.
Selected WISE Publications
Aberson, C. L., Berger, D. E., Emerson, E. P., & Romero, V. (1997) WISE: A
web
interface for statistics education. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, &
Computers, 29, 217-221.
Aberson, C. L., Berger, D. E., Healy, M . R., Kyle, D., & Romero, V. L. (2000).
Evaluation of an interactive tutorial for teaching the
Central Limit Theorem.
Teaching of Psychology, 27, 289-291.
Aberson, C. L., Berger, D. E., Healy, M. R., & Romero, V. (2001) Teaching
statistics with web-technology:
The WISE project. Syllabus, 14(7), 43-45.
Aberson, C.L., Berger, D.E., Healy, M.R., & Romero, V.L. (2002). An interactive
tutorial for teaching
statistical power.
Journal of Statistics Education [online], 10 (3).
Aberson, C.L., Berger, D.E., Healy, M.R., & Romero, V.L. (2003). Evaluation of
an interactive tutorial for teaching
hypothesis testing
concepts. Teaching of
Psychology, 30, 76-79.
Healy, M.R., Berger, D.E., Romero, V.L., Aberson, C.L., & Saw, A. (2002).
Evaluating
JAVA applets for teaching on the Internet.
Proceedings of the Scuola Superiore G. Reis Romoli Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business,
e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine on the Internet International Conference.
Romero, V. L., Berger, D. E., Healy, M. R., & Aberson, C. L. (2000). Using
cognitive learning theory to design effective on-line statistics tutorials. Behavior
Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 32, 246-249.
You are visitor #
since June 2006.
|