Basic Statistics (college level) Reflective Essay

1. Describe how you improved your knowledge, skills, abilities, and yourself in this session through this course.
2. Evaluate the work you did during the session for the class and explain ways you could have performed better.
3. Identify topics you did not understand or successfully implement and suggest how to improve the course material on those topics.
4. Identify ways to measure the future effects of what you have learned in this course or your future progress/improvement.
5. State whether you achieved the course outcomes (listed on the Module 6 Home page and course Syllabus page).

The subjects taught were:

1.       Identify the meaning of independent and dependent variables (Module 1).

2.      Calculate probabilities and joint probabilities of simple events (Module 1).

3.       Explain the basic logic of probability theory (Module 1).

4.      Calculate the mean, median, and mode from a set of data (Module 2).

5.      Choose the most appropriate measure of central tendency for a particular set of data (Module 2).

6.      Create and interpret information from a box plot (Module 2).

7.      Describe the information provided by the Standard Deviation (Module 3).

8.      Use the Standard Deviation to calculate the percentage of occurrence of a variable either above or below a particular value (Module 3).

9.      Describe a normal distribution as evidenced by a bell-shaped curve (Module 3).

10.    Prepare a distribution table from a set of data (Module 3).

11.     Calculate the variance (Module 3).

12.    Define sampling methods and terminology (Module 4).

13.    Identify situations when sampling is appropriate (Module 4).

14.    Draw the proper inferences about the population after the sample has been evaluated (Module 4).

15.    Describe the process of selecting and evaluating a sample (Module 4).

16.    Explain the effects of a larger sample size in relation to data (Module 4).

17.    Explain Type I and Type II errors (Module 5).

18.    Construct hypotheses (Module 5).

19.    Calculate the test statistic, P-value, and Z score from a set of data (Module 5).

20.   Calculate and explain significance levels (Module 5).

21.    Investigate the use of analysis of variance (ANOVA) and regression (Module 5).

22.   Reflect upon and integrate course concepts (Module 6).