Thanks for your replies, Jay. I was aware that tutees weren't
charged and tutors worked as volunteers, but I was more
concerned about the quality of the help tutees would get. You
have contributed to setting my mind at rest on that score.
Is there some reason you didn't want to share your comments with
the group?
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>there is one group/post address, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>which is devoted to post secondary statistics. A couple people on this
>group are _very _ knowledgeable, esp. including one Prof/Dr./Ms. Ellen
>Hertz. the questions range from very introductory to middlin', and you can
>tell when a department starts a new term by the nature of the questions.
>Relatively few questions are very serious math level, but these get dealt
>with as well as the others.
>
>some of the 'tutors' give the mechanics response that many students prefer;
>some give the math down to the core. Most try to explain the underlying
>assumptions & restrictions.
>
>listening in, and occasionally offering something to the less math oriented
>questions, has helped me understand my own students much better.
>
>Jay
>
>Stan Brown wrote:
>
>> Jay Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu:
>> >a) if this is the homework problem it resembles, I'd suggest you try
>> >ps-statistics, at
>> >
>> > http://www.tutoraid.org/
>>
>> Does anyone have any first-hand knowledge of these people? I confess
>> that I'm more than a little nervous because in two different places
>> the site describes its mathematics service as "Any and all
>> disciplines relating to Mathematics such as Algebra, Calculus,
>> Logarithm, Statistics and Trigonometry."
>>
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