Post on 04-Aug-2015
hiram.bollaert@ap.be @hiramglows
eSTAT
Teaching statistics through series of quizzesReview 2010-2014
9 slides+ 5 min discussion= 15 minutes⇒ Avg. Speed 60s/slide
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Statistics - ex cathedra
Recognize something?
1st year Professional Bachelors Business Studiesa very heterogeneous group
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Time for Change
Meet Opal RubyAustralian Sheppard
11 weeks, 7 Kg
She changed my life Can she help?
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Cultured Course in Moodle2010: FIRST 1st line tutor
Monoculture: digital quizzes(±165 model questions,±5000 questions)& students buy a book
Students are challenged!!!
BUT… they don’t read the book
they guess
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Cultured Course in Moodle2013: SECOND 1st line tutor
Multiculture: digital quizzes + glossary + book modules(& students can use all available content)
BUT…they still guess!
Hyperlinks? Books? WWW?
Cryptic glossary!
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Cultured Course in Moodle?: FUTURE 1st line tutor
Permaculture: Digital quizzes +extensive embedded feedback(& students can use all available content)
Let them guess!
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Evolution
First semester dropout
More involved students? Excel? All resources?...
semester 2after Excel
multiculture,learning conversations,
all resources(non human),
Excel
name change?
semester 1monoculture,teaching,book,calculator
semester 1teaching,book,calculatorpaper exam
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Results
+ Quality Exam!No evaluation workObjectiveInternal consistency 84%
+ Objective evaluation
+ More job satisfaction through learning conversations
+ More 21th Century skills!
? Do they understand statistics better? I doubt it…
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Tools
• Excel & VBA-> Moodle XML-> Moodle
• Future:– R (open-source statistical package)– STACK (open-source system for computer-aided
assessment in Mathematics)