In the meantime, we have four sections of Practice Research going on at Wurzweiler this spring, and we thought we would let you know how our students are using SSD for R throughout the semester.
Everyone teaches a little differently, but, over the years, we have both come to the conclusion that the best way to get students comfortable with using statistical software is to have them use it early, incrementally, and often. The students don't get into analyzing their own data until later in the semester, so we start out with datasets that we use throughout our book and in our own research.
Charlie's class, which meets in person, has already created their first annotated graph of Jenny's yelling:
Pretty good for the first day of class, huh?
Wendy's class is a distance learning class (a big shout out to Moodle, which is making our lives infinitely easier this semester), so that section is more concerned right now with downloading R, RStudio, and SSD for R, since these students' computer labs are in their living rooms. Once we have everyone on-board with that, we will be zipping right along.
We have both provided our students with an earlier draft of the manuscript for our book, so they can step through activities at home AND they will be able to refer back to the text throughout the semester when the students eventually analyze their own data.
Stay tuned - we both LOVE teaching this class (and our students enjoy taking it), so we will be blogging often about our students' progress.
