{"id":2456,"date":"2017-02-21T20:31:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T20:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibpsych.themantic-education.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2019-08-25T07:03:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T22:03:50","slug":"lesson-idea-inferential-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2017\/02\/21\/lesson-idea-inferential-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Idea: Inferential Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

With 20 hours allocated for the IA and a lot to get done, I only have time in my course to plan one lesson for inferential statistics. In this time I want students to get a basic understanding of:<\/p>\n

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  1. how inferential stats differ to descriptive ones<\/li>\n
  2. how to choose which inferential statistical test to use<\/li>\n
  3. and most importantly,\u00a0why\u00a0<\/em>inferential statistical tests are applied to data<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    One really simple way of achieving 1 and 3 is by doing the following quick activity.<\/p>\n

    You can find the lesson plans, workbooks, powerpoints and other resources for this lesson in our teacher support packs.<\/p>\n

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    Activity<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    I show students two sets of data (see the video) with the calculated mean. The example I use in the video is of an experiment about “Rememberol,” a fictional memory improvement drug. \u00a0(I like to use non-IA examples so they have to think for themselves how to apply the learning to their own studies). From the descriptive statistics you can see that the mean for one condition is higher than the other. I get students to draw a conclusion based on this data.<\/p>\n

    This video helps students understand why we conduct inferential statistics.<\/strong>
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