TESC Statistics Class?

[JohnnyHeck]

Another free resource that combines video lectures along with real course like structure and tutoring help from fellow students are the MOOCs. Here is one starting soon introducing stats for persons possibly like yourself: https://www.edx.org/course/i-heart-stats...QdBPeHK-Ro You could do this course to get the concepts under your belt and then finish up with credit using ALEKS. You don't lose a thing by taking a prequel course to starting ALEKS because ALEKS starts you off from what you already know. Since ALEKS is so weak in presenting stats concepts, this combo could be just the thing to get through it with the least pain. Personally, I am not a fan of video only tutoring of stats because the structure of the topics are mot generally presented in a coherent manner for either speed or depth of learning. There are usually no practice problems available which I believe are essential for retaining the knowledge long enough to be used in a credit earning venue or later study in your profession. Even if you are only "ticket punching" your psych major and hence your stats requirement, I believe that you will find a course-like self paced structured presentation the easiest to follow and the shortest and least painful route. Coming from where you are if you think you should be able to learn stats without thinking and in 80 hours or less, you are dooming yourself to extreme frustration.

[Prloko]

You will find from other threads in this forum that most people find the ALEKS stats very difficult because the learning model within ALEKS is not strong on presenting concepts rather than calculations. Stats does not take much math but it's concepts can be difficult to grasp if not presented in a coherent, logical, and structured manner. You can test this out for yourself by trying out the free ALEKS 3 hour trial assessment. For my math-phobic students I am recommending this free, self paced online non credit course from Carnegie Mellon: Statistical Reasoning | Open Learning Initiative Then after finishing this course you could document your knowledge for credit with the self-paced untimed ALEKS Stats course assessment. However, as a psych major, you really need to know this stuff for future use. So, instead of ALEKS, I would recommend repeating the learning experience with the self paced graded Ohio U course PSY 2110: OHIO eCampusOHIO eCampus With the new thrust into Evidence Based Practice for Psychology you will have to overcome your math fears and my recommendation is based upon previous success with others like yourself. It will take some time, but there is never any pressure with these self-paced highly structured courses. If your basic math skills are really rusty or even non existent, then do the ALEKS course Math Essentials before anything else. You will be amazed how quickly and easily your math phobia will melt with finally conquering the basics very soundly. ALEKS is really super here because of it's infinite patience and self paced learning model for calculation centric knowledge and practice. You can do math. You have just had very poor teachers and were not given enough time and practice to develop the necessary skills before being pushed ahead without a solid foundations at each sequential level.

Good to see someone else, NOT recommending blowing through stats. If you truly can learn it via SL or Aleks, awesome, but if you are barely skimming by, it can hurt you bigtime later, especially in a descent graduate course or a job that uses stats (like mine).

[bricabrac]

I enjoyed Aleks. I also feel you should supplement the software with a good textbook(s) to reference what you are learning, especially when breaking down complex equations. To complement the text(s) - Weiss and Berenson - go to interactmath.com (FREE)

Below is my go to list of stats books:


This is an EXCELLENT TEXT!! Author takes the time to fully explain the concept before introducing the equation.
Probability and Statistics (4th Ed)
Author: Morris H. DeGroot
Publisher: Pearson; 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0321500465

Good Book, Easy to Understand!!
Basic Business Statistics-Concepts and Applications (12th Ed)
Series: Basic Business Statistics
Authors: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, Timothy C. Krehbiel
Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2011
ISBN: 978- 0132168380

EXCELLENT, Easy Read!!
Elementary Statistics - Looking at the Big Picture (1st Ed)
Authors: Nancy Pfenning
Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0495016526

Great for referencing equations.
Elementary Statistics (8th Ed)
Author: Neil A. Weiss
Publisher: Pearson, 2012
ISBN-13: 978-0321691231


MUST HAVE for learning to use the Software!!
Introduction to Statistics and SPSS in Psychology
Author: Andrew Mayers
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited, 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0273731016!!

[cookderosa]

Another free resource that combines video lectures along with real course like structure and tutoring help from fellow students are the MOOCs. Here is one starting soon introducing stats for persons possibly like yourself: https://www.edx.org/course/i-heart-stats...QdBPeHK-Ro You could do this course to get the concepts under your belt and then finish up with credit using ALEKS. You don't lose a thing by taking a prequel course to starting ALEKS because ALEKS starts you off from what you already know. Since ALEKS is so weak in presenting stats concepts, this combo could be just the thing to get through it with the least pain. Personally, I am not a fan of video only tutoring of stats because the structure of the topics are mot generally presented in a coherent manner for either speed or depth of learning. There are usually no practice problems available which I believe are essential for retaining the knowledge long enough to be used in a credit earning venue or later study in your profession. Even if you are only "ticket punching" your psych major and hence your stats requirement, I believe that you will find a course-like self paced structured presentation the easiest to follow and the shortest and least painful route. Coming from where you are if you think you should be able to learn stats without thinking and in 80 hours or less, you are dooming yourself to extreme frustration.

This is true, you have to do practice problems on your own. I filled 2 full spiral notebooks. I should have added that, because I think it probably makes the difference between success and failure. I can (errr...could) find the standard deviation longhand without notes before I walked into take my test...of course I didn't have to, but you have to be sure you're getting it one way or the other.

P.S. if you're headed to grad school, allllll of this will appear again and again.