I have been using a TBL approach in Introductory Statistics for the past two years, and am very pleased with the transition. The approach I use is detailed
(for use in a chemistry class) in Chapter 5 of Team-Based Learning (book by Michaelsen, BaumanKnight and Fink). Prior to each 75-minute class, students read a chapter of the textbook using a learning guide to target their reading. Then, students take
a short reading quiz (individually). Upon completion of the reading quiz, I typically spend 10 to 15 minutes providing instruction on the more technical content of the chapter that students have historically found difficult to learn from reading the textbook.
For the remaining 45-50 minutes, students work in teams on problem sets (often from the application exercises at the end of the chapter). Typically, 4 to 6 problems can be completed before class is over. I often have each team submit their solution to one
or more of the problems for grading at the end of the class.
I am using
Essential Statistics by David Moore as the textbook for the class, which I have found it to be quite accessible for most students.
Cheers,
Maryann
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On Behalf Of Abby Drake
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 3:15 PM
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Subject: Re: TBL and biostatistics
One resource that has proved useful to me in the past is TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY
—— a peer reviewed publication of ecological educational materials by the Ecological Society of America:
http://tiee.esa.org/vol/toc_all.html
It has some nice datasets and teaching notes.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 12:24 PM
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Subject: Re: TBL and biostatistics
I'm not doing Bio-statistics, but I am teaching basic educational statistics. I too would be interested in statistics-related application
exercises which I might be able to adapt.
For my class I'd thought of giving (or having students generate) research questions and datasets and having them identify appropriate statistical tests to answer those research questions. Also I thought of giving them 5 articles and tell them that they're
the reviewer (or editor) of the journal. They would need to determine which article gets into the journal because the authors used the most appropriate statistics, implemented the stats properly and made appropriate conclusions.
Best,
Vanessa
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 10:54 AM
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Hi – I’m also developing a TBL based Biostats class for this fall and would love to see examples!
Douglas – as I develop my applications I will happily share them with you. What textbook are you using?
Best,
Abby
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 11:06 AM
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If there is anyone using TBL for biostats I would love to see examples of application exercises.
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