Two things this week: 1) Open Science Framework can be used to share teaching materials and 2) Dr. Page-Gould shows us how to do just that, and how to do it very well. Most people who would visit this blog have heard of the Open Science Framework. You probably know that it is a popular place to share research projects/data/pre-register your jam/share materials, but did you know that it is also a popular place to share teaching resources? Dr. Page-Gould recently shared her whole stinking upper level Stats/RM class, Treatment of Psychological data . And it is beautiful and good and makes me feel like an entirely inadequate statistics instructor. Like...she shared EVERYTHING and it is beautiful and a great example of how to fold the "new statistics" into undergraduate stats. Lectures, example data, and lab resources (and rubrics for grading her labs) are available. This is an upper level course but it covers topics that should be included in Introduction to Statistics. I ...

I am absolutely NOT above pandering to undergraduates. For example, I use beer-related examples to illustrate t-test s,   correlation/regression , curvilinear relationships , and data mining/re-purposing . Here is some more. This data was collected to estimate how much more participants would pay for their beer if their beer was created in an environmentally sustainable manner. The answer? $1.30/six pack more. And 59% of respondents said that they would pay more for sustainable beer. NPR talked about it , as well as ways that breweries are going green. Here is a link to the original research . How to use in class: 1) The original research is shared via an open source journal . So, an opportunity to talk about open source research journals. 2) They data was collected via mTurk, another ancillary topics to discuss with your budding research methodologists. 3) The authors of the original study shared their beer survey data ! Analyze to your heart's content. 4) How c...