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Need Statsitics, but hate all the Math? The Statisistics TECEP may be your answer. - Prloko - 07-05-2016
Has anyone taken the Principles of Statistics TECEP? I was just reading the exam guide (http://www2.tesu.edu/tecep_desc/STA-201.pdf). Its 100 MC questions and you only need to answer 55 correctly. On top of that, here is what they have to say about the exam :"You may bring a non-programmable calculator but probably won’t need it. The exam is concept-based, so you do not need to memorize every formula. However, you do need to be familiar with formulas so you can identify the appropriate situation in which to use them. You should memorize the following formulas:mean--median--standard deviation--z-score--variances"
Anyone who has taken an actual in person Stats course (yours truly), or took the Stats DSST (again yours truly), or even took a stab at the ALEKs Stats course (you guessed it, yours truly), knows how much a pain in the neck all the calculations are. This may seem like a good option for someone seeking a more concept based method.
Has anyone already attempted and would like to comment?
Need Statsitics, but hate all the Math? The Statisistics TECEP may be your answer. - dfrecore - 07-05-2016
I'm studying for it now, I only need 1 TECEP for residency (under the old program). I'm registered for the May term, so I have to take it by July 24 - I will let you know how it goes. Using Khan Academy to study.
Need Statsitics, but hate all the Math? The Statisistics TECEP may be your answer. - cookderosa - 07-06-2016
Prloko Wrote:Has anyone taken the Principles of Statistics TECEP? I was just reading the exam guide (http://www2.tesu.edu/tecep_desc/STA-201.pdf). Its 100 MC questions and you only need to answer 55 correctly. On top of that, here is what they have to say about the exam :"You may bring a non-programmable calculator but probably won’t need it. The exam is concept-based, so you do not need to memorize every formula. However, you do need to be familiar with formulas so you can identify the appropriate situation in which to use them. You should memorize the following formulas:mean--median--standard deviation--z-score--variances"
Anyone who has taken an actual in person Stats course (yours truly), or took the Stats DSST (again yours truly), or even took a stab at the ALEKs Stats course (you guessed it, yours truly), knows how much a pain in the neck all the calculations are. This may seem like a good option for someone seeking a more concept based method.
Has anyone already attempted and would like to comment?
I failed to complete ALEKS but successfully passed the DSST. I'm not mathy.
Need Statsitics, but hate all the Math? The Statisistics TECEP may be your answer. - Nixi - 07-06-2016
Saylor has a Business Statistics course (https://learn.saylor.org/course/bus204), for those that want the cheapest option ($25) along with the convenience of online proctoring.
RE: Need Statsitics, but hate all the Math? The Statisistics TECEP may be your answer. - Silly_Me - 10-02-2017
@Prloko, did you ever end up taking the Statistics TECEP? How was it? I'm considering taking it after I "teach" myself the concepts w/ the help of Aleks. I've never taken statistics before, and I need some residency credits at TESU for the military degree completion program (working on an associate's degree at TESU before transferring over to Excelsior). Thanks for the info!
RE: Need Statsitics, but hate all the Math? The Statisistics TECEP may be your answer. - a2jc4life - 10-02-2017
I seem to remember seeing that the Saylor Principles of Statistics (or Intro to Statistics; I can never seem to remember what the name is -- not the business one) is correlated to the TECEP. I can't find that now, but I remember noticing that there were two different credit options for that class: use it to prepare for the TECEP, or take the proctored final for ACP/ACE credit recommendation. And I know I picked that one because it seemed to focus more on the general concepts than the math itself.
RE: Need Statsitics, but hate all the Math? The Statisistics TECEP may be your answer. - bjcheung77 - 10-02-2017
LOL, for Stats courses, I've been advising people to do the Study.com version or the SL Business Stats.
RE: Need Statsitics, but hate all the Math? The Statisistics TECEP may be your answer. - dzaloum - 02-04-2022
Since it would've been nice to hear someone's experience with this exam when I was studying for it, I'll go ahead and share mine now that I've passed this exam.
I got an 80%. The passing score is 55% or higher. The 2 hours I had was enough time for me to finish comfortably. I can say the TECEP test description very closely describes the content of this exam. As they said, it really is not formula based. I had to use the Standard Deviation formula once. I'd say the majority of questions were on Mean, Mode, Median and Range, so be sure you know them well. Things like "a given data set is 8, 8, 10, 11, X and 14; if the mean is 10, what is X?"
I used the Study.com TECEP Principles of Statistics: Study Guide & Test Prep course to study for this exam. Although it was accurate, you can definitely pass this exam without it. Any time spent worrying about the formulas, which was most of the SDC test prep, is really not necessary. Learn the concepts listed in the test description, very well, and you will be good to go. I spent about a week studying pretty intensely for this exam. I probably spent over 20 hours studying in total. Obviously I studied things that were not on the exam. I will say that any time spent familiarizing myself with things like the symbols used in statistics (I had never seen a sigma symbol before or known what it meant before this) was well worth it. I pretty much just watched every SDC video and took every lesson's quiz. I did not take the chapter review exams. I went with SDC because I have a shared login to be able to watch the videos and take the quizzes (but not get credit from SDC). I honestly wouldn't have paid money for it. I chose to take this TECEP because I needed RA credits, am generally good with math-related subjects, need it for my BSBA core, and already have Gen Ed credits.
An example of a concept based question would be:
Joe is in the 55th percentile. That means:
a) 55% of other students scored the same or lower than Joe
b) 55% of other students' scores were the same or higher than Joe's score
c) Joe got more than half of the questions right
d) Joe scored 55%
You don't need to know the percentile rank formula to answer this.
These are 3 links that I used to learn more about specific topics. You could probably use them to study for the entire exam. The first two are listed in TESU's Principles of Statistics online class syllabus, but not for this TECEP for some reason. I did not use the textbook listed in the test description.
https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-statistics
https://stats.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_Statistics/Book%3A_Introductory_Statistics_(Lane)
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability
RE: Need Statsitics, but hate all the Math? The Statisistics TECEP may be your answer. - taylorgodiva28 - 05-22-2023
(07-06-2016, 06:19 AM)Nixi Wrote: Saylor has a Business Statistics course (https://learn.saylor.org/course/bus204), for those that want the cheapest option ($25) along with the convenience of online proctorHi, I wonder when will this course take place?
RE: Need Statsitics, but hate all the Math? The Statisistics TECEP may be your answer. - rachel83az - 05-23-2023
(05-22-2023, 09:21 PM)taylorgodiva28 Wrote:(07-06-2016, 06:19 AM)Nixi Wrote: Saylor has a Business Statistics course (https://learn.saylor.org/course/bus204), for those that want the cheapest option ($25) along with the convenience of online proctorHi, I wonder when will this course take place?
This is an old, old thread. Saylor is now $5 per exam. It takes place whenever you want. Sophia Statistics is probably easier than the Saylor exam, assuming the Saylor course is still ACE-recommended.