Musings about the Teaching of Statistics: The Best of Curious David

Below is a first draft outline of an ebook I am contemplating writing. I share it at this time welcoming feedback. I shall use this draft as part as a review for my PSY205 students. Here is a brief description of HOW I teach the course.

Each hyperlink is a “module. Thanks to Arianna, Tia, and Lizzy for helping me create this draft (while I was away from the office).

What data analysis should I use?: Test your knowledge by clicking on the link. Eventually I shall incorporate a flow chart / decision tree here.

1. Teaching Tools: SPSS, inStat, starQuiz, Camtasia and Research Randomizer.
2. Augmenting My Teaching Capabilities: Top Technology Learning Tools Revisited.
3. On Engaging Students (Part 2): Adventures with StarQuiz and SPSS
4. Changes: How much tinkering should one do with a course that seems to work well?
5. Learning by Teaching: Alison and Lizzy’s Guide to Using SPSS Data Analysis for Simple Linear Regression
6. Retrospective Thinking: How much tinkering should one do with a course that seems to work well?
7. Two-way Between Subjects ANOVA Using SPSS (Part 1)
8. What Questions can you Answer with your Data? Using SPSS to guide you.
9. Review of One-way Between Subjects ANOVA using SPSS
10. t-Time: Three Short SPSS Screencasts for PSY205
11. Still Looking for ways to Improve Courses After 36 Years of Teaching (Part 1 of 2)
12. Retooling and Sharpening the Saw
13. Something Old and Something New: A brief Introduction to Effect Size Statistics