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Statistical Applet Collection

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Overview:: A collection of applets for Data Analysis, Sampling Distribution Simulations, Probability, and Statistical Inference.
Type of Material:: Simulation
Recommended Uses:: This site would be useful for self-guided study/review, self-paced and individual student practice. As well, for anyone who is doing statistical research. It could also be used as an interactive classroom statistics learning tool.
Technical Requirements:: Any browser that supports JavaScript
Identify Major Learning Goals:: Obtain an intuitive understanding of the confidence intervals and hypothesis testing that is included in elementary statistics.
Target Student Population:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division. Any academic looking for materials and contents in descriptive and inferential statistics. Professionals and anyone doing some research.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: Elementary statistics

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Strengths:: This site includes 30 different interactive statistical visualizations that will allow statistics students to learn the concepts experientially. The user has the ability to input their own statistics and control the sample size taken.
Concerns:: It should include information or a link about what is the purpose of each topic and why it is use for.

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Strengths:: This collection of applets is valuable for students, professionals and academics who want to study and review statistics. It promotes the necessity of data with a data base provided in most of the topics. This is especially helpful for students who are kinesthetic or visual learners.
Concerns:: This material fails to address Statistics as a powerful tool in making decisions. Identifying learning objectives would be useful to guide the users to choice the best statistical topic for their necessities.

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Strengths:: The materials are very well-organized, and it is easy to use and navigate.
Concerns:: It would be helpful to add some exercises involve making decisions based on data. The use of the material could be extended to the community of Spanish speakers if all the applets could have the option to be translated into Spanish. There are no instructions that accompany the activities, so students who are not sure what a particular component does will become confused.