WISE: Web Interface for Statistics Education

Authors

Christopher L. Aberson '99, Claremont Graduate University
Dale E. Berger, Claremont Graduate UniversityFollow
Eric P. Emerson '95, Claremont Graduate University
Victoria L. Romero '07, Claremont Graduate UniversityFollow

Student Co-author

CGU Graduate

Document Type

Article

Department

Behavioral and Organizational Sciences (CGU)

Publication Date

1997

Disciplines

Cognitive Psychology | Psychology | Science and Technology Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Abstract

The Web Interface for Statistics Education (WISE) project includes a World-Wide Web site to support the teaching of introductory social-science statistics courses. The site provides easy access to data bases, archived discussion lists, electronic journals, links to other sites focused on relevant statistics topics, and it includes a prototype of an on-line tutorial. The tutorial, which is the focus of the current paper, is designed to capitalize on special capabilities offered by the Web. The easy linkage between Web pages provides support for a highly interactive tutorial, which uses “failure-based” learning and immediate feedback. Students rated the tutorial as easy to use and indicated that it would have improved their initial statistics course.

Comments

The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com

Rights Information

© 1997 Psychonomic Society Publications

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DOI

10.3758/BF03204814

Recommended Citation

Aberson, C. L., Berger, D. E., Emerson, E. P., and Romero, V. L. (1997). WISE: Web Interface for Statistics Education. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers. 29, 217-221. doi: 10.3758/BF03204814