1. Students’ Preferred Learning Tools and Modalities
Keisha Brown
Class session ID :

2. We have a diverse group of students.
Ethnicity
Race
Age
Marital Status
Culture
Experiences
Intelligence
Language
Learning Styles
Determination
Disabilities
Resources

3. What do you think is a REASONABLE pass rate in Statistics?
Please respond in Learning Catalytics?
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4. For Fall 2016, the average pass rate (ABC) for Statistics was:
57.4%
Perimeter Campuses
Online and On-ground
51 sections

5. What was my SoTL project?
Students’ Preferred Learning Modalities and Tools in Elementary Statistics
Fall 2015( 1 class) and Spring 2016 (4 classes)
n = 134
4 point Likert-scale
Fisher’s Exact Test for Independence

6. What do you think were the top four responses?
Please rate how effective the following tools or activities were in helping you to learn and understand Elementary Statistics.
1 – Never Used 2 – Attempted to Use, but not helpful 3 – Helpful 4 – Extremely Helpful
Lecture
Completed Lecture Notes
Videos in MyStatLab
Tutorial Hours
Tutorial Review Sessions
Learning and Tutoring Center
Computerized Homework
Current Event Connections (Ebola, The Claw, Obesity Rates among Low-Income Preschoolers)
Statistical Analysis Tools (i.e. Graphing Calculators, Excel, Statcrunch)
Learning Catalytics (Software within MyStatLab used to answer questions during class)
Old Practice Tests
Real World Problems from Textbook
Reading the Textbook
Group Projects

7. The four best tool/resources that helped them to learn Statistics were:
The Top 3 Tools
Mean
Median
Completed Lecture Notes
3.7
4.0
Statistical Analysis Tools
3.6
Computerized Homework
Lecture
3.5

8. What do you think were the bottom four responses?
Please rate how effective the following tools or activities were in helping you to learn and understand Elementary Statistics.
1 – Never Used 2 – Attempted to Use, but not helpful 3 – Helpful 4 – Extremely Helpful
Lecture
Completed Lecture Notes
Videos in MyStatLab
Tutorial Hours
Tutorial Review Sessions
Learning and Tutoring Center
Computerized Homework
Current Event Connections (Ebola, The Claw, Obesity Rates among Low-Income Preschoolers)
Statistical Analysis Tools (i.e. Graphing Calculators, Excel, Statcrunch)
Learning Catalytics (Software within MyStatLab used to answer questions during class)
Old Practice Tests
Real World Problems from Textbook
Reading the Textbook
Group Projects

9. The four tools/methods they considered the least helpful were…
The Bottom Four
Mean
Median
**Learning and Tutoring Center
2.5 3
Reading the Textbook 2
**Tutorial Hours
2.6
**Test Review Sessions

11. There were significant differences in…
Age ranges and level of helpfulness of reading the textbook p = 0.003
Benefits of reading the textbook versus Age
18-24
25-31
32-38
39+
1 - Never used
0.24
0.25
0.13
0.00
2 – Attempted but not helpful
0.28
0.38
0.20
3 - Helpful
0.26
0.63
4 – Extremely helpful
0.22
0.60

12. There were significant differences in…
Program of study and the helpfulness of tutorial review sessions p = 0.047
Previous math course taken and helpfulness of tutorial review sessions p = 0.044
Tutorial Review Sessions versus Program of Study
Business
Health Professions
STEM Fields
Non-STEM
Undecided 1
0.36
0.35
0.50 2
0.12
0.08
0.00
0.06
0.11 3
0.26
0.18
0.25
0.22 4
0.46
0.19
0.67
Tutorial Review Sessions versus Previous Mathematics Course Taken
Math 1001
Math 1111
Other 1
0.26
0.44
0.23 2
0.07
0.05
0.14 3
0.21
0.17 4
0.59
0.30
0.46
1 – Never used 2 – Attempted but not helpful 3 – Helpful 4 – Extremely Helpful

13. In hindsight, what should you have taken more advantage of?
Percentage
55.2%
49.3%
38.10%
Categories
Tutorial Hours
Tutorial Review Sessions
Lecture

14. In the future what tools/resources should be enhanced/offered more?
33.6% Tutorial Review Sessions
28.4% Tutorial Hours
25.4% Old Practice Tests
23.9% Videos in MyStatLab

15. Taking their advice, I have…
Collaborated with Lynda Cain, Charlene Madden, and Theo Tate
Provided more online resources
We host our review sessions and share the dates and times with the Learning and Tutoring Center and other statistics classes.
Capture Space in Kaltura allows you to record lectures in your classroom.
Used Webex to have review sessions, then provided the recording to students