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Internet Approach versus Lecture and Lab‐Based Approach for Teaching an Introductory Statistical Methods Course: Students’ Opinions
Author(s) -
Johnson H. Dean,
Dasgupta Nairanjana,
Zhang Hao,
Evans Marc A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00335.x
Subject(s) - popularity , the internet , mathematics education , course (navigation) , class (philosophy) , perspective (graphical) , teaching method , computer science , statistical analysis , online teaching , psychology , statistics , mathematics , world wide web , artificial intelligence , engineering , social psychology , aerospace engineering
Summary The use of the Internet as a teaching tool continues to grow in popularity at colleges and universities. We consider, from the students’ perspective, the use of an Internet approach compared to a lecture and lab‐based approach for teaching an introductory course in statistical methods. We conducted a survey of introductory statistics students. Contradictory to what was hypothesized by the authors, they favoured keeping the lecture and lab‐based approach for teaching the class.