AP Statistics | Online Statistics Classes at Texas A&M University

Summer Institute (Campus) Summer Institute (Online) At Your Own Pace (Online)

AP* Statistics Program
Texas A&M University
Department of Statistics

Director:
Dr. Jamis Perrett
jamis@stat.tamu.edu

Contact:
Penny Jackson
pjackson@stat.tamu.edu

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The At Your Own Pace workshop is available to begin at any time. You will receive access to the previously recorded videos of our live Summer Institute. Regardless of when you start, you will have access for one full year.

As AP* Statistics has rapidly become one of the most popular AP exams, many mathematics teachers with relatively little statistics experience have been charged with taking on AP* Statistics courses.

The online AP* Statistics teacher training program at Texas A&M University is a rigorous program designed to quickly bring new statistics teachers up to speed on a variety of basic statistical concepts and methods. It can also give new insights and resources to seasoned statistics teachers.

How does the "at your own pace" program work?

We recorded our live 2011 Summer Institute, led by College Board consultant Josh Tabor, and are making these videos available. You can watch as many, or as few, videos as your schedule allows. In order to earn a certificate of completion, you will need to correctly answer 90% of the questions on a quiz designed simply to make sure you watched all the videos. You will be allowed to re-submit the quiz to increase your score. You will have access to the course for one year from the day you start.

Course Overview:

Our online mentoring focuses on developing solid pedagogical techniques which you can implement in your AP* Statistics course.

The course covers the four broad areas of the AP* Curriculum: Data Collection, Data Description, Probability and Statistical Inference. In each area, participants are given instruction on content, activities to use in class, hints on using technology (including Fathom and graphing calculators) and exposure to previous AP* questions, concentrating on the most recent AP exam.

Mr. Tabor's presentations are supplemented by faculty lectures. The program draws on the resources of our Department, one of the largest of its kind.

Workshop Material Preview: Download our course overview document (PDF) to see the first page of Josh Tabor's workshop packet and a list of the course videos broken down by topic.

Meet Our Instructor:

Josh Tabor has been teaching AP Statistics since 1996-1997, the first year the AP Statistics exam was offered. He currently teaches at Canyon del Oro High School in Oro Valley, AZ and was a top-5 finalist for Arizona Teacher of the Year in 2011.

Josh has been a grader of the AP Statistics exam since 1999, a table leader from 2001-2006, and a question leader from 2007-2010. He has also served on the AP Statistics Test Development Committee from 2005-2009.

Josh is also the author of two books published by W.H. Freeman: Statistical Reasoning in Sports (January 2012) and The Annotated Teacher's Edition for the 4th edition of The Practice of Statistics, by Yates, Moore and Starnes (January 2011).

He has been teaching week-long summer workshops for many years all over the country and really enjoys the opportunity to share his love of statistics as well as learn from the experiences of workshop participants.

Cost:

The $475 fee includes access to the online workshop (including all digital materials and files) and shipping of extra materials (sample textbooks and resource CD).

Note: We do not ship internationally. Participants outside the U.S. will have access to all materials online — everything necessary to complete the workshop — but will not receive the extra physical materials unless a U.S. mailing address is provided.

Registration:

To sign up for the workshop, complete the registration.
You will be given payment options once the online registration has been submitted.
After payment has been verified, we send instructions for you to begin right away.

Make sure to check out the Frequently Asked Questions (which includes information about taking classes for credit). If you have more questions, contact Penny Jackson.

Frequently Asked Questions
AP Statistics Online Workshop
At Your Own Pace

What workshops do you offer, and how are they different?

There are three different options:

Summer Institute (On-Campus): This workshop is held July 11-14, 2011 on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. You will have the opportunity to visit our campus, enjoy face-to-face interaction with the College Board instructor, network with other AP educators, and experience some famous Aggie hospitality.
Summer Institute (Live Online): An online program offered concurrently with the on-campus workshop (July 11-14, 2011). You will watch the workshop live as it happens, with the opportunity to communicate with the people on-campus through the webconference software.
At Your Own Pace (Online): This online program is available throughout the year. You get access to watch the recordings of our most recent live workshop as your schedule allows.

All of these workshops offer the same instruction and same materials delivered in different ways.

Why isn't the "at your own pace" program endorsed by the College Board?

Although the online, at your own pace version of the AP Statistics workshop is a recording of the actual on-campus College Board endorsed workshop, this type of format is not endorsed by the College Board primarily due to the fact that you miss the "live" interaction among the instructor and fellow students. You still receive the same instruction and materials, a certificate of completion, and access to a discussion board to ask questions.

What materials do I receive, and how are they delivered?

You get all the same materials that are handed out at the live workshop.

You will get a login for the course website, where you can watch the lecture videos, download instuctors' materials including lesson plans and activities, and find links to even more AP Statistics resources which are discussed throughout the workshop.

In addition, we will mail you sample publishers' textbooks, College Board workbooks and a CD of the workshop materials. Shipping to locations within the continental U.S. is included in the registration cost.

What are the computer/software requirements?

MS Word and PowerPoint for notes, etc.
Adobe Reader
Cable/DSL Modem or better - dialup is not supported
Flash to be able to watch videos

Can I receive academic credit for the AP Stat training?

Yes, if you participate in the live Summer Institute (online or on-campus). You must be enrolled as a G6 (non-degree seeking student) and registered for STAT 667. The deadline to register and pay tuition if you want to be enrolled in STAT 667 for academic credit is May 27, 2011 at 5 p.m. CDT. Please contact us for more information.

All participants will receive continuing education credit (3 CEUs / 30 contact hours), which does not require university enrollment or extra tuition fees.

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