Nothing freaks out your students faster than a formula, right? Karly over at The Novice Professor shares some worksheets she created for her students to step them through a few of the most common Intro Stats formulas: standard deviation, z-scores, and correlation.
Reasons to use in class:
1) Statistics has its own anxiety scale. I think a lot of that anxiety comes from the math part of a stats scale. These hand outs allow you to introduce the math and formulas without ever using the math and formulas.
2) I am a big fan of introducing statistics conceptually then getting into the nitty gritty of calculation, interpretation of output, etc. I like the formula-free approach here in order to introduce the idea of what frequently used stats, like SD, are really doing.
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| http://www.thenoviceprofessor.com/blog/teaching-statistical-methods-mostly-formula-free |
Reasons to use in class:
1) Statistics has its own anxiety scale. I think a lot of that anxiety comes from the math part of a stats scale. These hand outs allow you to introduce the math and formulas without ever using the math and formulas.
2) I am a big fan of introducing statistics conceptually then getting into the nitty gritty of calculation, interpretation of output, etc. I like the formula-free approach here in order to introduce the idea of what frequently used stats, like SD, are really doing.
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