Utah Virtual Lab: JAVA interactivity for teaching science and statistics on line |
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Authors: | Thomas E Malloy Gary C Jensen |
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Institution: | (1) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, National Technical University of Athens, Zographou, Athens, GR, 15773, Greece |
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Abstract: | The Utah on-line Virtual Lab is a JAVA program run dynamically off a database. It is embedded in Stat-Center (www.psych.utah.edu/learn/statsampler.html), an on-line collection of tools and text for teaching and learning statistics. Instructors author a statistical virtual reality that simulates theories and data in a specific research focus area by defining independent, predictor, and dependent variables and the relations among them. Students work in an on-line virtual environment to discover the principles of this simulated reality: They go to a library, read theoretical overviews and scientific puzzles, and then go to a lab, design a study, collect and analyze data, and write a report. Each student’s design and data analysis decisions are computer-graded and recorded in a database; the written research report can be read by the instructor or by other students in peer groups simulating scientific conventions. |
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