Hi, friends. There is a free, new edited volume that contains 18 terrific chapters of ideas and hints and guidance for teaching undergraduate statistics. Drs. Beyer & Peters but so much work into gathering ideas from great teachers and now we can all enjoy it.  I wrote Chapter 1. In it, I make an argument that we need to teach statistics to our psychology UGs in a way that better matches how they will use the statistics. TL:DR: 4% of psychology UGs get PhDs in psychology. So maybe we should reconsider how and who we are teaching. Download it here:  https://teachpsych.org/resources/Documents/ebooks/love-teaching-undergrad-stats.pdf

If you, or your students, want to know everything there is to know about ANOVA, you can point them towards this free resource: Tabachnick and Fidel's Experimental Designs Using ANOVA. Access it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/k3g7kl2h7u3kkwd/ExperimentalDesignsUsingANOVA.pdf And this is a legit, non-exploitive, non-stolen copy of the book. According to this post from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Facebook group, T&F have decided to share the book freely.

TL:DR: Ameri-centric teaching example ahead: Have your students take this quiz, and the internet will tell them which regions of the US talk the same as them. Use it to teach validity. Longer Version: The NYT created a gorgeous version ( https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html ) of a previously available quiz ( http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/cambridge_survey/ ) that tells the user what version of American English they speak. The prediction is based upon loads and loads of survey data that studies how we talk. It takes you through 25 questions that ask you how you pronounce certain words and which regional words you use to describe certain things. Here are my results: Indeed, I spent elementary school in Northern Virginia, my adolescence in rural Central PA, college at PSU, and I now live in the far NW corner of PA. As this test indeed picked up on where I've lived and talked, I would say that this is a  valid  test based just on my u...