Workshop schedule: Highline College

Other 2019 StatPREP workshop schedules: Hartford, CT, Columbia, MD, Fort Worth, TX.

Before the Workshop

Thursday June 20, 2019

  •  8:15 am -  9:00 am: Registration/Breakfast
  •  9:00 am -  9:15 am: Welcome (and welcome back to returnees) & housekeeping announcements (Danny Kaplan)
  •  9:15 am -  9:30 am: Icebreaker: Teaching Statistics (Ambika Silva)
  •  9:30 am -  9:50 am: GAISE and ASA/AMATYC guidelines to teaching statistics (Nick Horton)
  •  9:50 am - 10:20 am: Tidy data [slides] [notes] (Danny Kaplan)

  • 10:20 am - 10:30 am: Break

  • 10:30 am - 11:00 am: Orientation to the StatPREP website, Little Apps, and MAA Connect (Kate Kozak)
  • 11:00 am - 11:15 am: Share out from last year’s participants (Helen Burn)
  • 11:15 am - 12:00 pm: Introduction to RStudio cloud (Nick Horton and Kelly McConville) * link to RStudio project

  • 12:00 pm -  1:00 pm: Lunch/Discussion of curricular issues

  •  1:00 pm -  2:00 pm: Using StatPREP Little Apps in the Classroom Activity #1: Center and spread (Joe Roith)
  •  2:00 pm -  2:50 pm: Using StatPREP Little Apps in the Classroom Activity #2: Introduction to the Normal Distribution (Thomas Kinzeler)
  •  2:50 pm -  3:00 pm: Break
  •  3:00 pm -  3:30 pm: Bringing data into RStudio (Nick Horton and Kelly McConville)
  •  3:30 pm -  4:00 pm: Share Out / Adjourn for the day (Nick Horton and Kate Kozak)

Friday June 21, 2019

  •  8:15 am -  9:00 am: Breakfast

  •  9:00 am -  9:15 am: Getting to know Tutorials (Danny Kaplan)
  •  9:15 am -  9:45 am: Searching for Data? How to find good sources. (Danny Kaplan)
  •  9:45 am - 10:05 am: Using StatPREP Little Apps in the Classroom Activity #3: Confidence intervals (Kate Kozak and Ambika Silva)
  • 10:05 am - 10:25 am: Using StatPREP Little Apps in the Classroom Activity #4: Two-sample t-test (Kate Kozak and Ambika Silva) & participant check-in

  • 10:25 am - 10:35 am: Break

  • 10:35 am - 11:00 am: Using StatPREP Little Apps in the Classroom Activity #5: Linear Regression (Helen Burn)
  • 11:00 am - 11:30 am: Bootstrapping Little App (Kelly McConville)
  • 11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Assessment brainstorm
  • 12:00 pm - 12:45 pm: Lunch / Discussion: coordination among institutions
  • 12:45 pm -  1:30 pm: Choose one breakout to attend:
    1. New to R? Learn the basics. (Kelly McConville and Kate Kozak)
    2. Intermediate R. (Danny Kaplan and Nick Horton)
    3. Using Little Apps in your class today tomorrow! (Helen Burn)
  •  1:30 pm -  1:45 pm: Break

  •  1:45 pm -  2:00 pm: MAA Connect
  •  2:00 pm -  2:30 pm: It’s all regression! (Danny Kaplan)
  •  2:30 pm -  3:00 pm: Small-group discussion followed by Q & A panel discussion
  •  3:00 pm: Adjourn

Locations

Times differ from location to location. The above schedule will be adjusted accordingly.

  1. Hartford, CT
    • Friday, May 31: 2pm – 6pm (first day), 4 hours
    • Saturday June 1: 8am – 5pm (2nd day) 9 hours
    • Staffing: Nick Horton, Danny Kaplan
    • Hub leader: Hwayeon Ryu
    • Lodging: Simsbury Inn
    • 13 new participants, 10 returning
  2. Howard Community College: Columbia, MD
    • Friday, June 7: 2pm – 6pm (first day), 4 hours
    • Saturday, June 8: 8am – 5pm (2nd day) 9 hours
    • Staffing: Danny Kaplan, Randy Pruim, Andy Zieffler, Amelia McNamara (Saturday), Brooke Orosz, Hwayeon Ryu, Joe Roith
    • Hub leader: Carol Howald
    • Lodging: Columbia Inn at Peralynna (410-715-4600)
    • 45 new participants
  3. Tarrant County College: Fort Worth, TX
    • Wed 6/12 from 1pm – 6:30pm, 5.5 hours
    • Thurs 6/13 from 8:30am – 5:00pm, 8.5 hours
    • Staffing: Danny Kaplan, Andy Zieffler, Kate Kozak, Helen Burn, Mike Brilleslyper
    • Hub leader: Thomas Kinzeler
    • Lodging: Hilton Garden Inn in Hurst, TX Use the custom reservation link – statPREP
    • 28 new participants
  4. Highline College: Des Moines, WA (Seattle area)
    • Thurs June 20: 9am to 4pm, 7 hours
    • Friday June 21: 9am to 3pm, 6 hours
    • Staffing: Nick Horton, Kelly McConville, Danny Kaplan, Kate Kozak, Ambika Silva, Joe Roith, Carol Howald, Thomas Kinzeler
    • Hub leader: Helen Burn
    • Lodging: DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport
    • 15 new participants, 9 returning