The introductory graduate level educational statistics course at the University of Maine at Orono is taught using an interactive computer system. The students enter the course with no skills in educational statistics nor any skills in the utilization of computers. By the end of the course, the students are proficient in basic statistical techniques used in educational research and in the use of the computer to calculate the statistics. The major computer packages utilized include MSUSTAT Interactive Statistical Analysis Package and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences.
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