Appropriate interaction with peers, faculty, and staff on academic issues. Understand themselves better as learners. Evaluate their own strengths, limitations, and interests. Set attainable academic and career goals. Students will learn how to prepare for open-ended exam questions.
Students complete two exams during the term and a final exam.
Exam items are open-ended and require students to demonstrate an ability to apply statistical concepts and procedures to make decisions. Review questions are provided in advance of every exam and the part or all of the class period prior to an exam is dedicated to answering questions. Condensing and summarizing. Students will learn to write concise descriptions of data sets and conclusions based on statistical analyses. Practice is provided by several of the in-class activities, as well as the midterm and final projects.