Nottingham Trent University, De – STRESS: Depository of Resources for Statistics in Social Sciences

  • Start date: 2010-08-31
  • End date: 2011-08-31
  • Status: complete

The focus of the De-STRESS project is to Share, Adapt and Develop resources that will underpin the learning and teaching of statistics to students across the social sciences. The team will create 5 wikis to encourage the sharing of innovative resources and best practice; adapt/develop an assessment bank of questions that relate to the understanding, application and assessment of statistical concepts in social sciences; develop video units that will demonstrate how statistical concepts and techniques are relevant in real world issues across the social sciences; and create a suite of online demonstrators to illustrate descriptive statistical concepts with real data.

Aims and Objectives

The overall aim is to maximise student attendance, engagement and participation in statistics for social sciences, and improve their learning outcomes by providing a mix of new and relicensed resources that are engaging, accessible and flexible. The outputs will be provided in as “remixable” form as possible.

Anticipated Outputs and Outcomes

  • A set of twenty video units with associated materials.
  • A question bank of interactive mathematical assessments.
  • A set of a dozen online interactive graphs.
  • Five wikis, led by academics, to act as sharing spaces and as “shop windows” for the new resources.

Key Focus Areas

  1. Distinctive subjects, where a low volume of provision exists currently (statistical literacy) and a convincing argument could be made for the benefits to cognate disciplines

Organisations

Lead Institution:

  • Nottingham Trent University

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