A Discussion of different teaching strategies adopted during a Statistics tutorial

• Main Author: Pavlika, Vasos
• Other Authors: HTW Dresden, Informatik, Mathematik
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2012
• Subjects: Statistikübung; Lehrstrategien; Klassenquiz; Normalverteilung; Stochastikunterricht; Klassenraumstrategien; statistics tutorial; teaching strategies; class quiz; normal distribution; stochastics lessons; classroom management; ddc:510; rvk:SD 2009
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-88200; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-88200; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/8820/Proceedings-636pages-Dresden2009_477-480.pdf

In this discusses four different approaches used during a statistics tutorial of a group of first year undergraduates studying computer science related degrees at the University of Westminster UK. The four approaches were each implemented in an attempt to keep the students interested in the statistics topics delivered. It was found that “Chalk and Talk” (i.e. board work) was not the best form of imparting knowledge to the students of the group as determined by student analysing feedback forms and generally observing student behaviour and listening to student comments over a number of years delivering statistics topics. The duration of each tutorial was two hours. The teaching strategies adopted were: a) A class quiz. b) Group explanation of material to members of the individual’s group. c) Group explanation of material to members of the entire class. d) Students teaching at the front of the class. Each of the methods will now be discussed with the relative merits and defects included for a comparison. It was found that each method worked better at the end of each module when the students were more familiar with the topics introduced on the module.