Student-Centered Instruction in a Theoretical Statistics Course

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Figure 1: Structure of the class material for a typical week. Similar content was posted on the class web-site each Tuesday. Exercises were selected from Wackerly, Mendenhall and Scheaffer (2002). The italicized text was used to show how the in-class and take-home problems related to each other and to the lecture material.

Figure 2: Example of edits made to an in-class homework problem for which students received credit. All text in black ink is exactly as written by the students in class. Text in red ink was added by the author to illustrate how to make the solution complete.

Figure 3: Example of edits made to an in-class homework problem for which students did not receive credit. All text in black ink is exactly as written by the students in class. Text in red ink represents the comments made by the author in class.

Wackerly, D., Mendenhall, W., Scheaffer, R.L. (2002). “Mathematical Statistics with Applications,” (Sixth Ed.), Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury/Thomson.

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