[acb-hsp] Statistics Question

[J.Rayl]

Well, just have been there, done it.  <sigh>!  
My experience was online so, first of all, no SPSS, the software they typically use, is not accessible.
Not yet anyway, maybe by the time she actually takes it, it will be.
And, in my search, I did not find a program that would either 1. Allow me to do full stats (a couple do T-tests and that's it); or 2. Were accessible.
So, how did I do it?  Well, the instructor ended up having to modify and remodify and sometimes remodify that the eight inaccessible assignments.  Eight weeks after the class ended, we finally finished and I got a B--thank God -- and I learned very little that I had not known before from having taken previous accessible classes dealing with stats. concepts.

My recommendations were, and remain,
1.
Work closely with a tutor throughout the entire class so you pick up on the visual (and there are many) elements of stats. and get to use the inaccessible software.
(Argosy didn't like that.)
2.
Give an alternative, accessible class, like experimental psychology or tests and measurements -- which teaches stats. concepts.
or 3.
Waive the class altogether with a comparable class that will still teach the stats. concepts.

(Argosy didn't like that, either).

Time will tell what, or how, they proceed next go-round.  But maybe students will have accessible software because now, much to my immense delight, IBM is expressing an interest in making SPSS accessible.
class .
Jessie Rayl
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Darla Rogers 
  To: 'Discussion list for ACB human service professionals' 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 7:59 PM
  Subject: [acb-hsp] Statistics Question


  A fr4iend--whom I reminded about the list and the affiliate--is returning to college to g3et her degree in psychology and asked a number of questions about statistics programs--what's accessible and what isn't and how you work things out if the programs aren't accessible.

   

  Darla

   



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