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Michael On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Christopher W Ryan <cr...@binghamton.edu> wrote: > I participate peripherally on a listserve for middle- and high-school > science teachers. Sometimes questions about graphing or data analysis > come up. I never miss an opportunity to advocate for R. However, the > teachers are often skeptical that their students would be able to > issue commands or write a little code; they think it would be too > difficult. Perhaps this stems from the Microsoft- and > spreadsheet-centered, pointy-clicky culture prevalent in most US > public schools. Then again, I have little experience teaching this age > group, besides my own kids and my Science Olympiad team, so I respect > their concerns and expertise. > > I don't know yet what software they generally use, but I suspect MS > Excel and SPSS. > > Now I have to put my money where my mouth is. I've offered to visit a > high school and introduce R to some fairly advanced students > participating in a longitudinal 3-year science research class. > > I anticipate keeping things very simple: > --objects and the fact that there is stuff inside them. str(), head(), tail() > --how to get data into R > --dataframes, as I imagine they will mostly be using single, > "rectangular" datasets > --a lot of graphics (I can't imagine that plot(force, acceleration) > is beyond a high-schooler's capability.) > --simple descriptive statistics > --maybe t-tests, chi-square tests, and simple linear regression. > > Alas, probably more than we would have time to cover. > > Has anyone done anything with R in high schools? > > Thanks. > > --Chris Ryan > SUNY Upstate Medical University > Binghamton Clinical Campus > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
