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Humphrey, Patricia – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2012
An in-class activity is described that can be used not only to motivate hypothesis testing, but also to understand and compute the p-value and power in a statistical test. (Contains 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Class Activities, Science Course Improvement Projects, Statistical Studies
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Ramler, Ivan P.; Chapman, Jessica L. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2011
In this article we describe a semester-long project, based on the popular video game series Guitar Hero, designed to introduce upper-level undergraduate statistics students to statistical research. Some of the goals of this project are to help students develop statistical thinking that allows them to approach and answer open-ended research…
Descriptors: Video Games, Hypothesis Testing, Programming, Statistics