The apps in this collection are the work of undergraduate students majoring in Statistics and Data Science at Penn State University. These students took part in the BOAST program between 2017 and 2022. (BOAST = Book Of Apps for Statistics Teaching). This book is laid out in twelve chapters with four at the introductory level covering topics in Data Gathering, Data Description, Basic Probability, and Statistical Inference and with eight chapters at the upper division level covering Probability, Regression, ANOVA, Time Series, Sampling, Categorical Data, Data Science, and Stochastic Processes, and a further chapter on statistical issues in Biology.
The website is a collection of shiny applications laid out in a book format and covers topics from data gathering, descriptive statistics, probability, statistical inference and so on. The applications provide hands-on learning to students on those concepts.
The main learning objective is to obtain an overview of some Apps for statistics teaching
Target Student Population:
High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School. Any academic looking for materials and contents in descriptive and inferential statistics. Professionals and anyone doing some research.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Elementary statistics
Content Quality
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Strengths:
This site includes at least 13 different apps for statistics teaching that will allow students to learn and interact with the concepts.
It is pretty comprehensive in breath of topics and it can be used as in class demonstrations or homework for the students
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 apps could have the option to be translated into Spanish.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
The material can be used in class for demonstrating the concept by the instructor.
This collection of apps is valuable for students, professionals and academics who want to study and review statistics. This is especially helpful for students who are kinesthetic or visual learners.
Concerns:
It is difficult to assess how the stability of the applications will be for a large class, in other words if many students were accessing the application at the same time, it would slow down the loading and processing of the applications.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
The materials are very well-organized, and it is easy to navigate. It is very intuitive to use.
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