ActivStats Family

Overview

ActivStats 3.0 is an innovative multimedia education product on DVD-ROM that teaches introductory college-level statistics and the use of our Data Desk data exploration package. ActivStats was designed and authored by Paul Velleman, and reflects modern research into how people learn, and specifically how people learn statistics. Animated Activities introduce statistics concepts. Teaching Applets reinforce those concepts. Video is a motivational force, and guided analyses of real-world data provide hands-on practice with Data Desk. You'll get feedback from drag-and-drop quizzes, and return again and again to the glossary, index, and table of contents as ongoing sources of information. ActivStats is used successfully by both professionals and students. The Professional Version is designed to help you review the statistics you may have forgotten, or to learn these valuable skills for the first time. ActivStats provides everything you need to study statistics on your own. Free technical support is available to registered users by phone or online. Use the Academic Version along with an introductory statistics course, or for additional study and review. It is designed to work with many standard statistics texts, and can even be used as the main text for a course (providing a built-in statistics package at no extra cost).

Key Features

The Lesson Book provides short introductions to activities, icons for launching activities, and access to other navigation tools, such as the index, glossary and table of contents. Animated Activities are brief (2–3 minute) presentations of a single concept or method. You’ll hear the voice of an experienced teacher, and you’ll see text, pictures, animations, and sounds that explain the subject. Difficult or complex material can be repeated easily. The Teaching Applets are easy to learn and to use, and they are compatible with each other. Many applets are used to teach more than one concept. Data Desk is designed for use on both Macintosh and Windows computer systems. Use drag-and-drop quizzes to evaluate your progress and to reinforce what you’ve learned. If you find a quiz difficult, we recommend that you review the activities that precede it in the Lesson Book. The quizzes won’t be checked off in the Lesson Book until you have successfully filled in all the correct answers. Each lesson of ActivStats provides homework exercises. Homework exercises typically provide data and ask questions that employ the methods or concepts of that lesson. Many exercises include datasets and are linked with a mouse click to Data Desk or one of the Teaching Applets.

System Requirements

Macintosh Mac OS 10.2 or higher Power Mac or Intel processor 256 MB RAM 800 x 600 monitor DVD-ROM drive Windows Windows 2000/XP/Vista Pentium or better 256 MB RAM 800 x 600 monitor DVD-ROM drive

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