CAUSE, SERC Provide Teaching Activities
T
he Consortium for activities come with complete of the SERC modules, review and
the Advancement of lesson plans, including learn- revise it, and submit it to be post-
Undergraduate Statistics ing goals, context for use, and ed on the web site. Since then,
Education (CAUSE) has collabo- teaching materials (e.g., hand- 13 activities have been reviewed,
rated with the Science Education outs, teaching tips, assessment revised, and posted. To continue
Resource Center (SERC) project items, and references). In addi- adding to this collection, CAUSE
for the past three years to connect tion, three new modules were will incorporate items presented
activities for statistics classes created to reflect instructional during the new activity webinar
with details of different peda- methods that are particularly series (see
www.CAUSEweb.org/
gogical methods. relevant to teaching a statistics webinar/activity), hosted by Leigh
The SERC project, headed course: Making and Testing Slauson of Capital University on
by Cathy Manduca of Carleton Conjectures, Teaching with Data the fourth Tuesday of each month
College, has produced mod- simulations, and Creating and at 2:30 p.m.
ules for a variety of pedagogical Testing Models. The SERC modules can be
methods, along with information Two years ago, in conjunction located at http://serc.carleton.
about how and why to use each with the second United States edu/sp/cause/index.html or www.
method. Examples of these meth- Conference on Teaching Statistics,
CAUSEweb.org by selecting the
ods include the following: a workshop was held in which 14 link to “switch to browse by ped-
Campus-Based Learning:
statistics instructors were invited agogical method.” n
The campus is explicitly
to bring an activity linked to one
linked with education; the
campus buildings and grounds
are used as teaching tools
Cooperative Learning:
Students work in structured
groups to accomplish learn-
ing goals
Gallery Walk: students are
actively involved in synthe-
sizing important concepts,
consensus building, writing,
Member Spotlights
and public speaking
Game-Based Learning:
Faculty who want to start
using games to help teach
WANTED
are assisted
Interactive Lectures: short
The managing editor of Amstat News is searching
interactive activities are pro-
for ASA members who are willing to put themselves
vided that involve students
in the spotlight and write a brief article about their
and break up a lecture life, to be published in an upcoming issue.
The modules are linked to The article should be 1,000 or fewer words and
activities in a variety of disci- contain professional and personal information.
plines, and as a result of the col-
Please include a photo or two of yourself and
laboration with CAUSE, statis-
email it to Amstat News Managing Editor Megan
tics activities are now included
Murphy at
megan@amstat.org.
in many of the modules. These
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