Using Interactive Diagrams to Teach Graduate Students About Statistical Power

This report describes the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of a web-based tutorial designed to teach graduate students about the statistical concept of power. It contains a literature review of techniques used to teach statistics, similar computer-based programs for representing the concept of power, and instructional theories that pertain to web-based tutorials. It describes the process of designing and developing this tutorial in detail. The results section contains a description of the product implementation with three different groups and discusses the qualitative and quantitative findings from each of these implementations. Finally, there is a discussion of the tutorial's strengths and weaknesses.

Name thesis:degree_name

MS

Grantor dc:publisher

Brigham Young University - Provo

Author dc:creator

• Hunter, Eric D.

• instructional design
• statistics
• interactive diagrams
• flash
• dynamic templates
• eLearning
• web-based tutorial
• statistical power
• Educational Psychology

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1287

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarsarchive.byu.edu:etd-2286