{"id":531,"date":"2010-11-04T03:14:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T08:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=531"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:05:31","slug":"teaching-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/11\/04\/teaching-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by musescore on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/35225791@N02\/4751280935\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4137\/4751280935_167c0b9b27_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"MuseScore passes 40.000 downloads in June 2010\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>If undergrads were asked to create a list of the most terrifying things at college, statistics would surely be near the top.\u00a0 Many students, even in sociology, dread taking any class that mentions the word \u201cstatistics\u201d in the title.<\/p>\n<p>But, statistical methodology is an invaluable tool that can be used to explore the social world, and finding ways to illuminate complex concepts and connect the math to students\u2019 daily lives is key.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Hodge recently shared some great resources with us that might make this task a little easier:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ICPSR and SSDAN are partners on two projects to improve the quantitative literacy of students. One of the projects is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingwithdata.org\/qssdl\/welcome.action\">TeachingWithData.org<\/a>, a website of resources for faculty and instructors to teach social science concepts through the use of data. It is not exclusive to sociology, but there are many resources for sociologists. \u00a0In addition to classroom resources, the site has current news articles that use data to explain a happening or some other news, such as the recent growth enjoyed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingwithdata.org\/qssdl\/news.jsp#tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2901137004552085952.post-1734299014226564003\">Netflix<\/a>.\u00a0Very often these articles are accompanied by a chart or table which can be helpful for faculty looking for easy ways to have students practice these skills, and <em>sometimes<\/em>, they illustrate the incorrect use of data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If undergrads were asked to create a list of the most terrifying things at college, statistics would surely be near the top.\u00a0 Many students, even in sociology, dread taking any class that mentions the word \u201cstatistics\u201d in the title. But, statistical methodology is an invaluable tool that can be used to explore the social world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403],"tags":[837,38,626],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","tag-materials","tag-methods","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}