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Abstract
Courses taught using problem-based learning methods give life sciences graduate students direct practice in thestatistical reasoning skills needed to choose appropriate procedures for analyzing data from their researchstudies. This paper describes a graduate-level, case-based biostatistics course designed to cultivate these skills inveterinary medical science students who have had some initial preparation in statistics. The course gives student spractical experience by focusing on the analysis of data from actual biomedical research studies. Studentevaluations indicated that this course improved the students' ability to understand and apply statistical methods intheir research.
Acknowledgments
Part of this paper was presented at the 1996 Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago, IL, to the American Statistical Association Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences. The author thanks Drs. Kristi A. Green, Kristine Tischer, and Stephen J. Waldhalm; the editor; and three anonymous referees for their constructive suggestions for improving the manuscript. This is Journal Article #J9377 from the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES). Research was supported by MAFES and the College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi State University, under project #MISV-6401.