I guess I have always had the 'difficulty' of teaching 'small' classes. A class project is, IMHO, mandatory. For Students in a course on DoE (adv. stat.), they did one (directed by me) project as groups of 3-5, one project on their own, plus one real project at a local company, done as a class.
For Intro business students, teams of 3-5 had to work out their own technical question, and then answer it. I monitored & reviewed & argued with them at each step of the way, so they were not running off in wierd directions unless they refused the support. This kept the project within the bounds of the course, mostly. Negatives: The students have to make decisions (in business student case) before they have been exposed to the course material for making them. They need a lot of support as a result. Positives: The intelectual situation of "what do we do now" is confronted, and surmounted. The students can tell interviewers, "Yes I can do it. I already have." Some of my engineering students obtained employment on the strength of the applications in the one course. I don't know any other way to make absoltely clear the value & necessity of using the course material. Cheers, Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:edstat- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Paul Bernhardt > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 12:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [edstat] Teaching Small Stats Class > > I appear to have an unusually small undergraduate stats class this next > semester. > > Query for the stats teachers out there: if you had a small class, about > 7 to 10 students, are there any activities or approaches that you would > love to do but haven't done because class size makes it unwieldy. > Suggestions are desired since I have this opportunity. > > Paul -- Warner Consulting, Inc. 4444 N. Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 Ph: (262) 634-9100 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home of the A2Q Method(tm) What do you want to improve, Today! via CoreComm Webmail. http://home.core.com . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
