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AP* STATISTICS
Chris Olsen  history
Chris taught statistics at George Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, IA, for over 25 years, and AP* Statistics from its inception until 2005, when he passed the baton. After spending three years working as the Math Assessment Facilitator in the Research Dept in Cedar Rapids, he has returned to teaching and is now a lecturer at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, IA, teaching elementary statistics classes. He graduated from Iowa State University majoring in mathematics and philosophy, and in his graduate work concentrated on statistics, computer programming, psychometrics and test development.
He has been involved nationally in workshops and conferences mostly relating to statistics for over 30 years. He has reviewed materials for The Mathematics teacher, the AP* Central web site, The American Statistician, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and currently writes a column for STATS magazine. He is a co-author, with Roxy Peck and Jay Devore, of the Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis (POD). He authored or edited the Teacher's Guide for Advanced Placement* Statistics three Special Topics sections in AP* Statistics summer workshop materials.
He is a past member (twice) of the AP* Statistics Test Development Committee, and has served as a table leader and question leader for the AP* Statistics exam for 11 years. Current projects involve working on the 4th edition of POD, writing a book on using JMP software in teaching statistics, and serving on the editorial board of Teaching Statistics.
contact
You can e-mail Chris at colsen@mchsi.com
session outline
- Monday
- Morning Session
- Introductions
- Introduction to AP* Statistics
- Afternoon Session
- Data Analysis, Round I: The Plots Thicken!
- Data Analysis, Round II - Data analysis problems
- Planning Studies - Sampling Strategies
- Planning Studies - Experimental Design
- Teacher issues: Syllabus, Pacing, Assessments
- Tuesday
- Morning Session
- Experimental design problems: Blocking
- Data Analysis, Round III - Regression
- Probability, Round I - Chance Rules!
- Probability, Round II - Random variables
- Teacher issues: Managing the student project, technology
- Afternoon Session
- Probability, Round III - Simulation
- Inference, Round I - the Sampling Distribution of a statistic
- Inference, Round II - Hypothesis testing
- Mid-course correction: What are we missing?
- Wednesday
- Morning Session
- Inference, Round III - Confidence intervals
- Inference, Round IV - regression and chi square
- Teacher issues: preparing for the exam
- Afternoon Session
- Teacher issues: Managing the student project
- Inference, Round IV - regression and chi square
- Thursday
- Morning Session
- The nature of the AP* Statistics Free Response test
- What should students write on Free Response questions?
- Afternoon Session
- What should students write on Free Response questions? (Cont'd)
- What's all that stuff on the CD?
- Final questions and worries
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