to google is to search e.g., for web pages that have calculators via http://www.google.com/advanced_search
this web page has edit boxes for 1) words that must occur (e.g. calculator) 2) phrase that must occur (e.g. analysis of variance) 3) at least one of (e.g., oneway, t-test, factorial). If you find a site, maybe ucla, that has many of the calculators you need, you can make that the primary site for your course and then have a few other sites. One big problem with the approach of using online or physical calculators is that it fails to put sufficient emphasis on quality assurance in data handling (e.g., double entering data, full recording of labels, consideration of missing values, examining univariate distributions for reasonableness, etc.). You can also search http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search for topics in discussion groups such as this one. There have been several discussions on what should be included in an intro class. I lean heavily toward a "band width" approach which is very conceptual and provides a framework that details fit into. You will probably encounter a great deal of anxiety and apprehension that will interfere with learning. One thing that drove home to me the extent of this anxiety was: In 1972 I gave the same question to a class of fourth graders in the context of a math class and to a class of college juniors in the context of a stat class. I gave 10 single digit numbers, and asked "compute the mean of these numbers (old-fashioned average) (add up and divide). Show all your work." Fifteen percent of the fourth graders got the wrong answer. Thirty percent of the juniors got the wrong answer, some by not even trying!. If you go with SPSS browse Raynald's site http://pages.infinit.net/rlevesqu/ and the tutorials and examples included in the SPSS documentation. One thing that has worked for some new stat instructors is to team teach with someone who has complementary skills to yours. Depending on the size of your school you may have several colleagues teaching intro the same semester. Hope this helps. Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] Social Research Consultants University Park, MD USA <snip> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > =If you do not have access to a package like SPSS which is outstanding > in > =its human factors, (clarity, tutorials, stat coach etc.), you might > =google web calculators. > > I don't understand what you mean by "google web calculators". I > wish I had the computer lab time available and the time in the course > to teach them SPSS or Minitab. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
