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Bradmanesque
The Age of
Female Actor Oscar Winners
Pecking Order in
Chickens
Galileo's
Gravity and Motion Experiments
Pricing Diamond
Rings
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Bradmanesque (available in Word 2.0 only)
A lovely assignment that requires students to draw from their pool of knowledge about descriptive statistics. Topics: graphical display of data, summary statistics.
The Age of Female Actor Oscar Winners
This dataset has some intriguing patterns. Students are asked to determine if the average age of female actor Oscar winners is increasing. Topics: graphical display of data, summary statistics.
A researcher on animal behavior wants to study the relationship between pecking order and weight. He places four chickens in each of seven pens and observes the pecking order that emerges in each pen.
As the researcher’s assistant, you have been asked to analyse this data (and possibly generate some graphical displays) and write a report on the relationship, if any, between pecking order and weight. Topics: summary statistics, graphical displays.
Galileo's Gravity and Motion Experiments
This dataset may need some dusting off as it is over 400 years old! Galileo produced this data when he was studying motion under gravity. The assignment includes a graphic of some of Galileo's original notes. Topic: curve fitting.
Pricing diamond rings in Singapore can be viewed as an interesting exercise in statistical modelling. The price equals the current market value of the gold content of the ring, a craftsmanship fee plus the cost of the diamond. In this assigment the student trys to find a mathematical function which allows the price of a diamond ring to be determined from the size of the diamond. Topics: linear regression, curve fitting.
Here are some more stories, with their associated datasets available from the Datasets page. These can be turned into assessment items or further examples or exercises, as you desire. Topics: various
Introduction to Business Statistics at Georgia State University
An absolutely enormous item bank of statistics questions, many of them multiple choice from Georgia State University. They are categorised for convenience. As an indication of the size of the item bank the Descriptive Statistics section (one section of eight sections) has a filesize of about 150K.
AP Stats Assessment
A number of teachers of Advanced Placement Statistics (a first year tertiary statistics course taught in high schools, mainly in the US) maintain websites with worksheets, datasets and assessment. The AP-Statistics course covers all of the statistics in Maths A, B and C and more.
Al Coons at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
Al's website is a real treasure for anyone teaching AP Statistics for the first time.Follow the link to Projects/Student Papers. Note that some of the projects are outside of our syllabus areas (eg Chi-Square).
Paul Myers at Woodward Academy
Follow the link to Assessment. Paul is posting his tests in html format. His complete set of tests from 1997 is currently available.
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