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A Biostatistical Literacy Course: Teaching Medical and Public Health Professionals to Read and Interpret Statistics in the Published Literature
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Ann M. Brearley; Kollin W. Rott; Laura J. Le – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2023
We present a unique and innovative course, Biostatistical Literacy, developed at the University of Minnesota. The course is aimed at public health graduate students and health sciences professionals. Its goal is to develop students' ability to read and interpret statistical results in the medical and public health literature. The content spans the…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Data Interpretation, Teaching Methods, Biology
"Jumping the Shark": An Interdisciplinary Activity for Engaging Students with the Principles of Bivariate Regression
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Watson, Todd D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2022
Background: Student anxiety about statistics may lead to poorer learning outcomes. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate an exercise designed to teach students in an introductory statistics class the principles of bivariate regression and to emphasize how statistical tools used by psychologists are also implemented in other fields.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Activities, Feedback (Response)
Students' Satisfaction on Their Learning Process in Active Learning and Traditional Classrooms
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Hyun, Jung; Ediger, Ruth; Lee, Donghun – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Studies have shown Active Learning Classrooms [ALCs] help increase student engagement and improve student performance. However, remodeling all traditional classrooms to ALCs entails substantial financial burdens. Thus, an imperative question for institutions of higher education is whether active learning pedagogies can improve learning outcomes…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Learning Processes, Active Learning, Conventional Instruction
An Excel Solver Exercise to Introduce Nonlinear Regression
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Pinder, Jonathan P. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2013
Business students taking business analytics courses that have significant predictive modeling components, such as marketing research, data mining, forecasting, and advanced financial modeling, are introduced to nonlinear regression using application software that is a "black box" to the students. Thus, although correct models are…
Descriptors: Spreadsheets, Computer Software, Regression (Statistics), Business Administration Education
Effects of the Team Competition-Based Ubiquitous Gaming Approach on Students' Interactive Patterns, Collective Efficacy and Awareness of Collaboration and Communication
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Chen, Chih-Hung; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Previous research has illustrated the importance of acquiring knowledge from authentic contexts; however, without full engagement, students' learning performance might not be as good as expected. In this study, a Team Competition-based Ubiquitous Gaming approach was proposed for improving students' learning effectiveness in authentic learning…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Competition, Educational Games, Learning Activities
The Prisoner's Dilemma and Economics 101: Do Active Learning Exercises Correlate with Student Performance?
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Byun, Chong Hyun Christie – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
The importance of active learning in the classroom has been well established in the field of Economic education. This paper examines the connection between active learning and performance outcomes in an Economics 101 course. Students participated in single play simultaneous move game with a clear dominant strategy, modeled after the Prisoner's…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Activities, Correlation, Performance Based Assessment