INSPIRE: INsight into Statistical Practice, Instruction and REasoning
 
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What is INSPIRE?

INSPIRE is a course designed for high school AP statistics teachers who are novices at statistics.  The INSPIRE project is a joint effort of California Polytechnic State University, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the American Statistical Association that combines the talents professional statisticians, experienced high school statistics teachers, and college statistics educators.

INSPIRE was designed as a two-year course. The first year consisted of a weeklong workshop followed by a year-long distance learning course. The second year included a practicum in which participants worked on a real data analysis project mentored by a practicing statistician.  However, this page includes only the content for the distance learning portion of the course. 

INSPIRE Course Starts March 29, 2008. Register now!!!

INSPIRE will be offered through UCLA Extension for a 16-week course beginning March 29and ending July 18. Participants who complete the course will receive 5 units of university credit. The cost is $425.

To register, visit www.unex.ucla.edu. Click on  the "Quick  Enroll" tab at the top, and then either either Reg# T7347 (Mortlock) or T7345 (Olsen).

The official catalog desription is:

INSPIRE: Statistics X 402.2


This on-line course is intended for high school teachers new to teaching statistics.  We will cover the Advanced Placement Statistics curriculum  (experimental design, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics) from a teacher's point of view.   Based on the NSF-funded INsight into Statistical Practice, Instruction and REasoning (INSPIRE),  this course was designed by experienced high school AP Statistics instructors and college educators, including former Chief Reader Roxy Peck.  Participants will study one AP topic each week by doing activities (some of which can be done in the classroom), short self-graded homework exercises, and data analysis exercises.  "Teaching tips" and other resources are introduced to help teachers prepare students for the AP exam.
 
Please note that this is not an introductory statistics class, and students who are interested in an introductory statistics class should enroll in Statistics XL 10.
 
 
Prerequisite: A bachelor's degree.  Participants should either be currently teaching a high school statistics course or have recently taught one.
 



Table of Contents

Unit 1: Exploring Data
 Unit 2: Two-variable Relationships
Unit 3: More Two-variable relationships
 Unit 4:  Collecting Data
Unit 5: The Normal Distribution
 Unit 6: Probability Essentials
Unit 7: Random Variables and their PDFs
 Unit 8: Simulating Probabilities
Unit 9: Sampling Distributions
 Unit 10: Confidence Intervals
Unit 11: Hypothesis Tests
 Unit 12: Comparing Two Populations
Unit 13: Chi-square Tests
 Unit 14: Regression Revisited
Unit 15: Experimental Design Revisited

Workshops

Materials from each of the workshops is available.

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