These students may or may not be confident of their own mathematical abilities, but they realize their challenge is more than passing the course. Through other course work and life experience they have come to realize they will be accountable in the future for understanding and applying basic statistical procedures and interpretations, either on the job or in further studies. Students are ready for the introduction of spread sheets and statistical software and plan to master the fundamentals of chart and table graphics. Students look forward to revisiting basic math facts and arithmetic processes as a part of the course. The summer session schedule and the regular semester schedule are based on a total of 40 hours of classtime throughout a regular 15 to 17 week semester or five week summer session.
Every effort is made to cover the same material in a summer session that is covered in a semester.
This will become very clear as the days race by. Statistics appears to be a subject where information can be repeated over and over, but when it is finally grasped, it is as if the student is, literally, hearing the information for the first time. This is the nature of statistics as a discipline. At the beginning of each semester or summer session, the schedule reflects the course material as it was covered in a previous semester. As each semester or session progresses, the schedule is ammended to reflect material actually covered and expectations for the future days.