Some California colleges are helping struggling math students complete all the math they need in a single yearlong course, instead of requiring them to take the usual sequence of courses that can take ...
It is hard to teach statistics. “It’s hard to learn, too,” says psychology major Margaret Foster ’15 of York, Maine. It’s a staple of the social sciences, yet learning stats has bedeviled generations ...
The Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Data Science is the college’s newest major. The curriculum is designed to equip students to execute all stages of a data analysis, from data acquisition and ...
There are a lot of reasons to place freshmen in courses taught by tenure-line and otherwise full-time faculty members. Research suggests that underclassmen learn best from these professors, as opposed ...