Help with Statistics: Teaching with Minitab
Read how a seventh-grader armed with enthusiasm and Minitab 15 set out to solve the world’s energy problems - and won a state-wide science fair along the way.
Learn how a biostatistics professor uses Minitab to communicate the power of statistics and inspire future pharmacists in California and Vietnam.
As part of a growing trend in higher education, MBA candidates at Georgia Tech can receive Green Belt training as part of their degree. Read how students used Minitab to improve the quality of Atlanta businesses and attract the attention of recruiters from world-class companies.
Spreadsheet software makes some tasks easy, but learning statistics isn't one of them. Students who use packages like Excel often spend more time making the program do things it wasn't designed to than actually interpreting their results. Read this short article to find out why University of Pittsburgh students would rather use Minitab to learn and apply statistics.
Large-enrolled classes present a formidable challenge to statistics faculty who are committed to providing students with individual attention and high-quality instruction. This article tells the story of how the faculty at Penn State University used Minitab in an innovative redesign of Stat 200 -- an introductory statistics class taken by nearly 1,000 students each semester -- to meet that challenge. The new class format gives all the students ample opportunity to analyze data in class and saves the university $75,000 per year.
Laboratory/workshop and cooperative learning approaches raise student interest and involvement in their coursework. These methods can be used to teach a general statistics course to non-mathematics majors. This article examines the development and results of a voluntary, one-hour weekly lab that used such approaches and its results.
The way introductory statistics courses are taught to undergraduates in business and the social sciences is affected by factors such as the topics selected to be covered, the types of students, available facilities, background of instructors, and instructional objectives. Learn how Minitab facilitates the learning of statistics in introductory courses.
Microsoft Excel has its strengths, but customers who need to do even simple statistical analyses would fare much better with Minitab. But don't take our word for it, read this brief article in which the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and e-week columnist Scot Petersen weigh in on the dangers of using the spreadsheet package for statistics.
Traditionally, the development of technical courses has focused on the subject matter with little regard for the method of presentation. But research shows that traditional methods of instruction, where the instructor lectures and students are passively engaged in learning, is the least effective method of training. Learn how the help of some professional instructional designers provided a more customer-focused course in the design and analysis of experiments.