Project RITE
Recipients
Testing the Efficacy of DAWG, a Suite of Online Active-Learning Modules
for Enhancing Student Learning of Statistical Analysis
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Arnold Saxton
Professor, Animal Sciences, UT Knoxville
Robert Auge
Professor, Plant Sciences, UT Knoxville
John Cummins
Research Associate, Plant Sciences, UT Knoxville
Final Report Abstract
Overall the CRD module was found to be very effective at helping
students and researchers conduct a statistical analysis of experimental
data. The survey was also very effective at identifying necessary
improvements. In particular, step 8 needs a drastic change, and overall
comments suggested a more graphics, visual approach would be beneficial.
A summary comment from one of the instructors was that students "were
happy to have participated in the activity, believed the DAWG resource
to be quite valuable, and were excited about its future development."
So this project has successfully identified areas to improve, and we are
encouraged to continue development of this statistics resource. The
modules appear to very useful, and appear to achieve our goal of making
statistical training readily available, and relatively easy to use.
