2010

Volume 18, Number 3 (November 2010)

Abstracts

Articles

Jameel Al-Aziz, Nicolas Christou, and Ivo D. Dinov
SOCR Motion Charts: An Efficient, Open-Source, Interactive and Dynamic Applet for Visualizing Longitudinal Multivariate Data

Stefano Barone and Eva Lo Franco
TESF Methodology for Statistics Education Improvement

Simin Hall and Eric Vance
Improving Self-efficacy in Statistics: Role of Self-explanation & Feedback

Bridget Hiedemann and Stacey M. Jones
Learning Statistics at the Farmers Market? A Comparison of Academic Service Learning and Case Studies in an Introductory Statistics Course

Mary Louise Metz
Using GAISE and NCTM Standards as Frameworks for Teaching Probability and Statistics to Pre-Service Elementary and Middle School Mathematics Teachers

Jamis J. Perrett
The Benefits of Using a Course Disk to Aid in the Instruction of Statistics Courses

Lutong Zhou and W. John Braun
Fun With the R Grid Package

From Research to Practice

Franklin Dexter, Danielle Masursky, Ruth E. Wachtel, and Nancy A. Nussmeier
Application of an Online Reference for Reviewing Basic Statistical Principles of Operating Room Management

Departments

Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Concetta A. DePaolo
The STAT-ATTIC Website: Links to Statistics Applets for Introductory Courses

Audbjorg Bjornsdottir and Joan Garfield
Teaching Bits: Statistics Education Articles from 2010

Michelle Everson and Ellen Gundlach
Teaching Bits: What's New with CAUSEweb and MERLOT?

Data Sets and Stories

Letter from the Data Sets and Stories Editor - Dex Whittinghill

Jim Albert
Baseball Data at Season, Play-by-Play, and Pitch-by-Pitch Levels

Michael A. Rotondi
To Ski or Not to Ski: Estimating Transition Matrices to Predict Tomorrow’s Snowfall Using Real Data

Weiwen Miao
Did the Results of Promotion Exams Have a Disparate Impact on Minorities? - Using Statistical Evidence in Ricci v. DeStefano

Volume 18, Number 2 (July 2010)

Abstracts

Articles

Carine A. Bellera, Marilyse Julien, and James A. Hanley
Normal Approximations to the Distributions of the Wilcoxon Statistics: Accurate to What N? Graphical Insights

Linda L. Cooper and Felice S. Shore
The Effects of Data and Graph Type on Concepts and Visualizations of Variability

Sean Duffy
Random Numbers Demonstrate the Frequency of Type I Errors: Three Spreadsheets for Class Instruction

Felicity B. Enders, Sarah Jenkins, and Verna Hoverman
Calibrated Peer Review for Interpreting Linear Regression Parameters: Results from a Graduate Course

Martin Griffiths
Maximizing a probability: A student workshop on an application of continuous distributions

Jennifer Kaplan, Diane G. Fisher, and Neal T. Rogness
Lexical Ambiguity in Statistics: How students use and define the words: association, average, confidence, random and spread

Steven D. LeMire
An Argument Framework for the Application of Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing in Support of Research

Josh Tabor
Investigating the Investigative Task: Testing for Skewness. An Investigation of Different Test Statistics and their Power to Detect Skewness

Aaron Weinberg, Emilie Wiesner, and Thomas J. Pfaff
Using Informal Inferential Reasoning to Develop Formal Concepts: Analyzing an Activity

Amanda S. Williams
Statistics Anxiety and Instructor Immediacy

Departments

Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Audbjorg Bjornsdottir and Joan Garfield
Teaching Bits: Statistics Education Articles from 2009 and 2010

Michelle Everson and Ellen Gundlach
Teaching Bits: What's New with CAUSEweb and MERLOT?

Teaching Bits: Point-Counterpoint

Deborah J. Rumsey
Teaching Bits: Random Thoughts on Teaching. Rejoinder to "Let's Just Eliminate the Variance"

Michael M. Granaas' March 2010 Teaching Bit Response: Keep Teaching the Variance

Deborah J. Rumsey's November 2009 Teaching Bit: Random Thoughts on Teaching: Let's Just Eliminate the Variance

Volume 18, Number 1 (March 2010)

Abstracts

Articles

DeWayne R. Derryberry, Sue B. Schou, and W. J. Conover
Teaching Rank-Based Tests by Emphasizing Structural Similarities to Corresponding Parametric Tests

Thomas A. DeVaney
Anxiety and Attitude of Graduate Students in On-Campus vs. Online Statistics Courses

T. Lynn Eudey, Joshua D. Kerr, and Bruce E. Trumbo
Using R to Simulate Permutation Distributions for Some Elementary Experimental Designs

Dennis Gilliland and Vince Melfi
A Note on Confidence Interval Estimation and Margin of Error

Randall E. Groth
Interactions among knowledge, beliefs, and goals in framing a qualitative study in statistics education

Farida Kachapova and Ilias Kachapov
Orthogonal Projection in Teaching Regression and Financial Mathematics

Zipora Libman
Integrating Real-Life Data Analysis in Teaching Descriptive Statistics: A Constructivist Approach

David L. Neumann, Michelle M. Neumann, and Michelle Hood
The development and evaluation of a survey that makes use of student data to teach statistics

Maxine Pfannkuch, Matt Regan, Chris Wild, and Nicholas J. Horton
Telling Data Stories: Essential Dialogues for Comparative Reasoning

David Weltman and Mary Whiteside
Comparing the Effectiveness of Traditional and Active Learning Methods in Business Statistics: Convergence to the Mean

Departments

Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Audbjorg Bjornsdottir and Joan Garfield
Teaching Bits: Statistics Education Articles from 2009

Michelle Everson and Ellen Gundlach
Teaching Bits: What’s New with CAUSEweb and MERLOT?

Teaching Bits: Point-Counterpoint

Michael M. Granaas
Teaching Bit Response: Keep Teaching the Variance

Deborah J. Rumsey
Rejoinder in July issue

M. Leigh Lunsford and Alix D. Dowling Fink
Water Taste Test Data

Letter to the Editor: A design by any other name… (from Michael F.W. Festing)