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The Society for the Teaching of Psychology: Stats Resources

It occurred to me that I haven't shared my absolute most precious professional development and stats teaching resource in the blog.  That resource is the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Non-psychologists reading this post, don't stop now. Keep going.   1. There are multiple free e-books available from STP. Some are about teaching, broadly. Some of them have a chapter or two devoted to the teaching of statistics. But there is at least one exclusively devoted to the teaching of statistics,  For the Love of Teaching Undergraduate Statistics . I wrote a chapter in the book, so I'm partial.  2. The STP journal, Teaching of Statistics , includes pedagogy research about the teaching of statistics . Full disclosure: I'm a consulting editor at this journal. 3. If you are a member of STP and come up with an excellent teaching idea or study idea related to teaching statistics to psychology majors, STP has got some money for you . They have several grants, reviewed...

Teaching of Statistics in Psychology: Keynote Address

Hi! Here is all the material I shared at my keynote address at Teaching of Statistics in Psychology. I included three exercises, with slides, you could use to teach confidence intervals, chi-square, and t-tests. Here is the talk:

Dr. Morton Anne Gernsbacher's online Intro to Stats class

Dr. Morton Anne Gernsbacher has freely shared her WHOLE Psychological Statistics class with the world. No paywalls, no log-ins.  Divided up sensibly, including sections on effect sizes and Bayesian. With some assistance from Chelsea Andrews, she created this phenomenal resource for all of us to use. While I'm focusing on her stats class, be sure to check out her amazing Research Methods and Psychological Effects of the Internet courses. DO NOTE: I'm not primarily recommending this directly as a resource as a class for students. I'm recommending it to you, instructors, as a source of great, free statistical readings and teaching ideas that you could incorporate into your own classes. This is especially helpful if you are trying to teach without a textbook or if you are just looking for additional ways of explaining tough statistical concepts to your students. Here are a few things she shares that you could use: 1. Plenty of guidance for teaching via Excel/Google Sheets/App...