Enhancing statistical education by using role-plays of consultation
Role-plays in which students act as clients and statistical consultants to each other in pairs have proved to be an effective class exercise. As well as helping to teach statistical methodology, they are effective at encouraging statistical thinking, problem solving, the use of context in applied st...
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2007
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| description | Role-plays in which students act as clients and statistical consultants to each other in pairs have proved to be an effective class exercise. As well as helping to teach statistical methodology, they are effective at encouraging statistical thinking, problem solving, the use of context in applied statistical problems and improving attitudes towards statistics and the statistics profession. Furthermore, they are fun. This paper explores the advantages of using role-plays and provides some empirical evidence supporting their success. The paper argues that there is a place for teaching statistical consulting skills well before the traditional post-graduate qualification in statistics, including to school students with no knowledge of techniques in statistical inference. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-42472017-09-13T14:45:09Z Enhancing statistical education by using role-plays of consultation Taplin, Ross Student attitudes Statistics profession Professional entity Role-plays in which students act as clients and statistical consultants to each other in pairs have proved to be an effective class exercise. As well as helping to teach statistical methodology, they are effective at encouraging statistical thinking, problem solving, the use of context in applied statistical problems and improving attitudes towards statistics and the statistics profession. Furthermore, they are fun. This paper explores the advantages of using role-plays and provides some empirical evidence supporting their success. The paper argues that there is a place for teaching statistical consulting skills well before the traditional post-graduate qualification in statistics, including to school students with no knowledge of techniques in statistical inference. 2007 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4247 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00463.x Wiley Blackwell unknown |
| spellingShingle | Student attitudes Statistics profession Professional entity Taplin, Ross Enhancing statistical education by using role-plays of consultation |
| title | Enhancing statistical education by using role-plays of consultation |
| title_full | Enhancing statistical education by using role-plays of consultation |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing statistical education by using role-plays of consultation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing statistical education by using role-plays of consultation |
| title_short | Enhancing statistical education by using role-plays of consultation |
| title_sort | enhancing statistical education by using role-plays of consultation |
| topic | Student attitudes Statistics profession Professional entity |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4247 |