Foundational Statistics for Decision Support

This course provides the foundation of statistical analysis, focusing solely on descriptive statistics and the use of statistics in institutional research.

Course Description
Characteristics of Variables

Summaries of Data I

Summaries of Data II

Task Modules and Exercises

• - Describe the Respondents: Uses descriptive statistics to examine survey data to determine the demographics of survey respondents.
• - Summarize an Issue with Missing Data: Demonstrates techniques and strategies for dealing with missing data.
• - Summarizing Categorical Data: Uses categorical data to examine student learning profiles (number of students per major, identifying the most popular major, and the demographics of students within that major).
• - Working with Survey Data: Student Retention: Demonstrates how to use survey data to look at student retention patterns.
• - Interpreting Data Appropriately: Demonstrates how to run basic descriptive statistics in Excel; using mean, median and mode to examine and explain a particular variable.
• - Benchmarking: Demonstrates how to use descriptive statistics to analyze benchmark data and arrive at conclusions.

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