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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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Time for Change

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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)

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Remember toComment & Collaborate

• Which slide do you remember?Show 1 to 9 fingers( my guess: 2 or 7 )

• How good is my practice?All your comments are welcome

• Shall we create a common course?Time consuming

Bigger pool of knowledge & inspiration

Thank you