MS-150 Statistics

Course title: MS 150 Statistics

Campus: National

Initiator: Dana Lee Ling

Date: 16 May 2018

Course description

A one semester course designed as an introduction to the basic ideas of data presentation, descriptive statistics, linear regression, and inferential statistics including confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Basic concepts are studied using applications from health, education, business, social science, and the natural sciences. The course uses spreadsheet software for both data analysis and presentation. The course includes a focus on the use of computing technologies for statistical problem solving.

Hours per Week

No. of Weeks

Total Hours

Semester Credits

Lecture

3

x

16

x

48

=

3

Laboratory

x

x

=

Workshop

x

x

=

Total Semester

Credits

3

PSLO#

Program

GE 3.1

Demonstrate understanding and apply mathematical concepts in problem solving and in day to day activities.

GE 3.2

Present and interpret numeric information in graphic forms.

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1. Effective oral communication: capacity to deliver prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.

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2. Effective written communication: development and expression of ideas in writing through work in many genres and styles, utilizing different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images through iterative experiences across the curriculum.

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3. Critical thinking: a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.

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4. Problem solving: capacity to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.

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5. Intercultural knowledge and competence: a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.

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6. Information literacy: the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.

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7. Foundations and skills for life-long learning : purposeful learning activity, undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence.

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8. Quantitative Reasoning: ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations; comprehends and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats.

CSLO (General) 1: Perform basic statistical calculations for a single variable including graphical analysis, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing against an expected value, and testing two samples for a difference of means.

Student Learning Outcome (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

Assessment Strategies

1.1 Calculate basic statistical measures for the middle, spread of data including quartiles and relative standing.

1,4,8*

3.1

Students will be able to calculate basic statistical measures for the middle, spread of data including quartiles and relative standing as measured by assignments, tests, presentations. Presentations are marked using rubrics.

1.2 Generate box plot and histogram charts from data.

1,4,8

3.2

Students will be able to generate box plot and histogram charts from data as measured by assignments, tests, presentations. Presentations are marked using rubrics.

1.3 Calculate confidence intervals, perform hypothesis tests against a known value, test two samples for a difference of means, calculate effect size.

1,4,8

3.1

Students will be able to calculate confidence intervals, perform hypothesis tests against a known value, test two samples for a difference of means, calculate effect size as measured by assignments, tests, presentations. Presentations are marked using rubrics.

CSLO (General) 2: Perform basic statistical calculations for paired correlated variables.

Student Learning Outcomes (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

Assessment Strategies

2.1 Calculate the linear slope, intercept, nature and strength of the relationship for paired data.

1,4,8

3.1

Students will able to calculate the linear slope, intercept, nature and strength of the relationship for paired data as measured by assignments, tests, presentations. Presentations are marked using rubrics.

2.2 Generate scatter graphs for paired data.

1,4,8

3.2

Students will able to generate scatter graphs for paired data as measured by assignments, tests, presentations. Presentations are marked using rubrics.

2.3 Predict values based on the regression function.

1,4,8

3.1

Students will able to predict values based on the regression function as measured by assignments, tests, presentations. Presentations are marked using rubrics.

CSLO (General) 3: Engage in data exploration and analysis using appropriate statistical techniques including numeric calculations, graphical approaches, and tests.

Student Learning Outcomes (specific)

ISLO

PSLO

Assessment Strategies

3.1 Generate appropriate basic statistical measures of the data without specific guidance on which measures should be calculated.

1,4,8

3.1

Students will be able to generate appropriate basic statistical measures of the data without specific guidance on which measures should be calculated. as measured by assignments, presentations using open data exploration, and guided data exploration. Presentations are marked using rubrics.

3.2 Generate appropriate charts and graphs for the data without specific guidance on which charts should be generated.

1,4,8

3.2

Students will be able to generate appropriate charts and graphs for the data without specific guidance on which charts should be generated as measured by assignments, presentations using open data exploration, and guided data exploration. Presentations are marked using rubrics.

3.3 Draw conclusions based on statistical analyses and tests, obtain answers to questions about the data, supported by appropriate statistics.

1,4,8

3.1

Students will be able to draw conclusions based on statistical analyses and tests, obtain answers to questions about the data, supported by appropriate statistics as measured by assignments, presentations using open data exploration, and guided data exploration. Presentations are marked using rubrics.

Approved by VPIA: 12/02/21