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The following seminar is partially funding by WISELI's Celebrating Women in Science & Engineering grant program:

TITLE: Learning Introductory Statistics: An Experiment Comparing Online and In Class Instruction
SPEAKER: Jessica Utts, Department of Statistics, University of California-Davis
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
DATE: Wednesday, March 26, 2003
ROOM: 1221 CSSC

ABSTRACT:
With increasing college enrollments and availability of technology,
many campuses are investigating the use of online instruction. In
the Fall of 2001, as part of a larger study at the University of
California, Davis, we conducted an experiment to compare a "hybrid"
offering with a traditional offering of our large introductory
statistics course. For the hybrid offering the class met once a
week for evaluation and an overview, but the students were required
to learn the material using web-based material (CyberStats) and a
textbook. We examined differences in student performance, student
satisfaction and investment of both student and instructor time for
the hybrid and traditional classes. The hybrid course was taught
again in Fall 2002, modified based on the study results. This talk
will discuss the results of the study, and make recommendations in
the context of Garfield's (1995) principles of learning statistics.

Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 p.m. in Room 4331 CSSC
see: http://www.stat.wisc.edu/seminar/stat/2002-03Spring/summaryspring02-03.html