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Navigation: CAUSEweb ⇒ Webinars ⇒ Teaching & Learning ⇒ March 2011
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| Teaching & Learning Webinar SeriesThis series of webinars presents general topics in statistics education.They are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month at 2:00pm Eastern time. Hosted by Jackie Miller, The Ohio State University. |
CAUSE webinars are made possible by generous contributions from:
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JMP® software from SAS |
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"To Teach Statistical Inference, Try Standing On Your Head"
with Cliff Konold, Director, Scientific Reasoning Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2:00 to 2:30 pm Eastern time, March 8th, 2011
Generally in learning statistical inference, students reason backwards from data to the (usually invisible) process that produced them. I will demonstrate an alternative approach in which students begin at the process end, designing their own "data factories." Based on their output, students modify their factories such that, for example, a collection of cats produced by a cat factory has features that look more like real cats. This work is part of the NSF-funded "Model Chance" project. In this project, we have been adding probability modeling to the existing data-visualization capabilities of TinkerPlots and, using that environment, exploring how data and chance might be better integrated in our instruction beginning in the middle school.
