Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Atlanta, Georgia, March 10-13, 2016

Paper A017

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Designing a Meaningful Final Project For an Introductory Statistics Course

Carrie E. A. Grant


Flagler College


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ABSTRACT

In this paper, a method on how to effectively design a final project to assign to an introductory statistics course is proposed. This paper explains how a selection of topics that are important issues either on campus, in the community, or facing college students today can be the focus of a student research paper involving an opinion based survey.

Keyword(s): statistics