1 / 12

Enhancing Student Comprehension of Statistics through Effective Visualizations

This resource presents three engaging demonstrations aimed at improving students' understanding of statistical concepts. The first demonstration utilizes Survey Monkey for creating and analyzing short surveys, helping students visualize data through charts and percentages. The second, using Excel, encourages students to explore data representation and the importance of accurate graphic displays. Lastly, Mathematica offers students interactive visual demonstrations on statistical principles, enhancing learning through practical applications. These tools, suitable for various psychology courses, foster analytical skills through hands-on experience.

amos
Download Presentation

Enhancing Student Comprehension of Statistics through Effective Visualizations

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Visualizing Statistics to aid Student Comprehension: Three Demonstrations

  2. Demonstration #1 • Tool • Survey Monkey • Classes: • General Psychology • Social Psychology • Psychometrics (Measurement and Evaluation) • Cost • Free if you are using fewer than 10 items • Task • Have students create a short survey • Collect Data • Use Survey Monkey “Analyze” • Useful Analysis and Visualization • Percentages • Cross Tab • Creating Charts

  3. Survey Monkey • surveymonkey.com

  4. Demonstration #2 • Tool • Excel • Classes: • Any, though requires a great deal of faculty attention &/or student training • Cost • Already available at most colleges • Task • Students can either enter their own data or can be provided with data • Have students explore “Insert Chart” options • Useful • Understanding ways to misrepresent data (e.g., axis labels) • Different data require different forms of graphing • Changes in graphs can change how data is “visible” • Demonstrating Interactions

  5. Excel • Viewing Data • Graphing – misleading axis • Interactions

  6. Demonstration #3 • Tool • Mathematica • Classes • Statistics • Cost • The demonstration version is free: http://www.demonstrations.wolfram.com/?affilliate=1 • Task • Provide students with links to visual demonstrations on statistical concepts • Assign a task that instructs them what to do and/or questions to answer • Useful • Dozens of uses, and more being added regularly

  7. Mathematica • Bubble Chart demonstration: http://www.demonstrations.wolfram.com/BubbleChartComparisonsOfCountries/ • Effects of multiple comparisons on Type 1 error http://www.demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheHazardOfMultipleComparisons/ • Hypothesis testing – rejection region • http://www.demonstrations.wolfram.com/HypothesisTestsAboutAPopulationMean/

  8. Bubble Graphs

  9. Type 1 Error

  10. t-test

  11. Thank you • bgreen@esu.edu • statisticalsage.wordpress.com

More Related