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Post by arrrr on Nov 21, 2015 0:00:17 GMT -5
I teach statistics to undergrads, and my institution has SPSS installed in the computer lab. Besides the general terribleness of SPSS, I have been running into an issue where it is hard to get students to play around with actual data because of limited availability in the computer labs at my institution. As such, I was wondering if anyone:
- has any experiences teaching R to undergrads who may or may not have any experience programming
- Could point to any useful resources.
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Post by Not really on Nov 23, 2015 12:59:31 GMT -5
I have not tried it, but I have taught Stata to undergrads and used R myself. My experience is that R is going to overwhelm almost all of your undergrad students. But with a good GUI you can have a comparable (and free) experience as with SPSS. I have heard of some success teaching undergrads with R Commander, too.
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Post by tots on Dec 25, 2015 0:28:16 GMT -5
Talk to people at Idaho State. They ended their site license of SPSS and were forced at the last minute to find an alternative to SPSS. They now use R, though I'm not sure how successful they have been.
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Post by SDA on Dec 27, 2015 14:01:48 GMT -5
Teach data analysis with SDA, it's a simple program to master and accessible via the web. I used it in my lectures and taught it in stats courses with and without additional teaching components such as labs and tutorials without a problem. My intro students loved it. A basic intro: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdpUKHZklok |
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Post by rcmdr on Dec 28, 2015 9:54:29 GMT -5
I've used R for several years quite successfully. I pitch the fact that it is free and open source, so they can install it on their laptops which goes over very well. The R commander package will add a user-friendly GUI on R, making it easy to point and click your way through, similar to SPSS. www.rcommander.com/ |
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