Constructive statistics: feeding off your own dataset
Description
Contemporary approaches to teaching and learning statistics involve the use of elaborate datasets, which are stored in spreadsheet format. While modern textbooks supply a collection of datasets on disk media or via companion web sites, there is substantial merit in having the learners in a classroom collaboratively build a dataset on a single spreadsheet, and begin their explorations. This paper highlights some constructivist ways in which cloud spreadsheets can be employed to illustrate basic as well as advanced concepts in statistics.
Copyright Date
January 2013
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Pagination
594-598p.
DOI
10.1109/CTS.2013.6567293
ISBN
978-1467364041||978-1467364034||978-1467364027
Publisher
IEEE
Keywords
Cloud Computing, Cloud Spreadsheets, Collaborative Construction, Datasets, Random Samples
Conference
2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS): 20-24 May, 2013, San Diego, CA, USA