Some More Lab Experiences in Introductory Statistics

<p> For several years, I have used &rdquo;lab&rdquo; experiences in teaching Introduction to Statistics I, in which students collect or generate the data themselves. At Georgia Southern, we also have Introduction to Statistics II, which is taken by a few majors such as Information Technology, Political Science, International Studies, and Economics. From the list of majors who are required to take it, you can sense that this is a diverse group, and one in which many (most) really don&rsquo;t want to be in the course. Over the past several years, I have attempted to use more active data collection and analysis in this course as a means of making the class more &rdquo;real&rdquo; as well as hoping to grab (and keep) student interest. To that end, I have devised several active lab experiences in the spirit of what I do in the &filig;rst course. For example, we guess the number of jelly beans in jars for linear regression (and inference), measure the strength of facial tissues (two-sample t-test), and measure absorbency of paper towels (one-way analysis of variance). This presentation will discuss the projects, how they were received by the students, and the successes and failures with my approach.</p>