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After relatively easily testing out of ALEKS Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra, and Trigonometry, I thought I could handle their statistics class. I can't. I just can't wrap my mind around it. I need another option that fulfills TESC's statistics requirement. I've researched a few other options:
1. Penn Foster has a business statistics course - Does anyone have any experience with this?
2. JumpCourse has a prep course for the Statistics DSST - I think this is relatively new. Has anyone actually used this course and passed the DSST?
3. Saylor or Straighterline?
Any other options that I've missed?
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Here's a review from a book another forum recommended
Quote:This is my third statistics book. I am taking statistics in college. I failed statistics once and thought I would never, ever pass it or let alone understand it. I went to my local book store and went through book after book, after book and finally decided on this one. I cannot believe I am actually learning statistics. I was so confused and lost that my professor did not even want to bother with me. Anyway, I am not going to ramble on....but this is one hell of a book to learn statistics with
http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Statist...Statistics
I'll keep my eyes out for alternative sources of statistics credits as well.
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Maybe Prep using Khan Academy and then take the DSST. That's what I ended up doing when I couldn't wrap my head around a lot of it. I used Khan and The Idiot's Guide to Statistics.
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Look at this free online self-paced option from Carnegie Mellon:
Statistical Reasoning | Open Learning Initiative It's highly structured to take you from zip knowledge to everything you would need for the DSST. No videos to slow you down, just well designed text with many feedback questions to ensure that you got the point needed to go on the next topic including interactive graphics and specific instructions on using Excel, R, or Ti Stats Calculator to solve problems.
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I used business stats from Straighterline.
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JohnnyHeck Wrote:Look at this free online self-paced option from Carnegie Mellon: Statistical Reasoning | Open Learning Initiative
Depending on how you define easy, another option available starting 2 March is this MOOC:
https://www.coursera.org/course/statistics Although not self paced, what might make this option easy in a sense is that it is professor led, with class help always available from it's totally optional and voluntary discussion board, and when it ends you will have engaged in enough graded test feedback to let you know you can pass the DSST or perhaps asses out through ALEKS on the first try. However, because of it's use of the free R stats software program, I believe that you probably will need to put in about 10-12 hours per week of effort over the 10 week course term. But in the end you will have all the real knowledge and the software expertise to put this knowledge to work.
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02-22-2015, 04:51 PM
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I'm doing the Sophia.org Intro to Statistics course. I'm horrible at math, but the format of this program is easy to follow. There are videos on the material, followed by challenge questions. Once you get a 70% or better on the Challenge questions, you move on to the Milestones. These tests are all multiple choice question formats.
It's an easy non-scary way to learn statistics in my opinion. Also, at the end of the course, they will submit your scores for ACT credit. Here's a link (see below) if it's something you might be interested in. Do the trial first and try it out. The program is not as cheap as StraighterLine, so make sure it's something that you are going to follow through with. Another thing I like about Sophia.org is that they give you a timeline to complete your Challenges and Milestones.
https://www.sophia.org/online-courses/in...statistics
StraighterLine was hard for me. I need more structure, otherwise I tend to lose interest or not be the most organized. But you might check into SL as well. I just know that I spent a couple hundred bucks on the SL Statistics course, only to not get it completed.
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