Interactive Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, 2nd Edition

About Interactive Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, 2nd Edition:

• Written entirely in MyLab™ Statistics, Interactive Statistics offers a completely digital experience that was built from the ground up to work with the way today’s students learn and behave online. 

• Interactive Assignments in MyLab Statistics present statistical concepts through seamless learning and assessment. By cycling through a “read a little, watch a little, do a little” model, students experience statistics and develop deeper conceptual connections. There is an Interactive Assignment for each section of a chapter. Interactive Assignments are structured as follows:
  

• Preparing for This Section provides a brief review and exercises designed to assess mastery of the prerequisite topics needed for the upcoming section objectives.
  
• Learning Objectives for This Section provides students with a preview of the learning objectives that the Interactive Assignment will cover.
• Students move through each objective in the Interactive Assignment by reading text, interacting with strategically placed multimedia and step-by-step examples, and completing assessment questions. The 2nd edition’s Interactive Assignments include the following enhanced and new features:
  
• Step-by-step examples guide students from problem to solution in easy-to-follow steps. Assessment follows each example, asking students to work through built-in exercises to assess their understanding of the concepts they just reviewed.
  
• EXPANDED! Embedded simulation and applet activities take an experiential approach to helping students learn concepts. These are typically followed by exercises to demonstrate understanding.
  
• NEW! Innovative lightboard videos featuring Mike Sullivan guide students towards deeper conceptual understanding of certain key topics.
  
• NEW! Excel video solutions have been added to the existing suite of StatCrunch, TI-83/84 Plus, and by-hand calculation videos that accompany Step-by-Step examples.
  
• NEW! Animations appear at the beginning of most sections to remind students of where they have been and where they are going in the upcoming objectives.   
  
• EXPANDED! Reading Assessment questions are questions on which the students just get one attempt to encourage careful reading and comprehension before they work on the solution. 

• IMPROVED! The Chapter Review section was redesigned so that it is easier for students to navigate through the following resources:   
  
• A Chapter Summary video and downloadable MindMap.
  
• A list of key chapter Vocabulary and Formulas.
  
• Chapter Objectives listed with corresponding review exercises.
  
• Review Exercises that students can use for practice and a Chapter Test with complete, worked-out answers.
  
• A Chapter Review Quiz that populates a personalized homework based on each student’s strengths and weaknesses.

• Additional instructor and student support resources are available to accompany Interactive Statistics:
  
• Student Resources
  
• NEW! User Guidance Video in MyLab Statisticswalks students through Interactive Statistics, explaining how to navigate through the Interactive Assignments and how to get the most out of its resources and hallmark features.
  
• The Interactive eText is an easy reference that includes the text and multimedia elements from the Interactive Assignments without the built-in assessment.
  
• The Guided Notebook provides students with a structure for recording key information from the Interactive Assignments and facilitates good note-taking. This resource is available for download in MyLab Statistics or for purchase in a printed, unbound format. An instructor’s version that includes answers and notes from the authors is also available to download from MyLab Statistics.
  
• Student Activity Workbook (downloadable) for the Sullivan Statistics series, available for download in MyLab Statistics or for purchase separately, includes classroom and applet activities. An accompanying instructor’s version with suggestions for incorporating the activities into class is also available to download from MyLab Statistics.

• Instructor Resources
  
• NEW! Simulations-based Interactive Assignments. Instructors can opt to assign versions of certain Interactive Assignments that take a simulations approach, making it the perfect program for departments where instructors teach in a variety of ways.
  
• NEW! Classroom notes (downloadable) guide instructors through from Mike Sullivan’s classroom lectures when he teaches with Interactive Statistics. Thesecan be downloaded from MyLab Statistics or sullystats.com.
  
• Instructor’s Resource Guide (downloadable), prepared by the authors, provides notes and suggestions for each chapter, including notes on what to emphasize, classroom examples, and ideas for traditional, online, blended, and flipped classrooms.
  
• Case Studies (downloadable), available for each chapter, help students apply their knowledge and promote active learning. Instructor solutions are included for each case study.

Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what's new in this edition.

Reach every student with MyLab Statistics

MyLab™ Statistics is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. With MyLab Statistics and StatCrunch, an integrated web-based statistical software program, students learn the skills they need to interact with data in the real world. Learn more about MyLab Statistics.

• Deliver trusted content: You deserve teaching materials that meet your own high standards for your course. That’s why we partner with highly respected authors to develop interactive content and course-specific resources that you can trust—and that keep your students engaged.
  
• StatCrunch is a powerful web-based statistical software that allows users to perform complex analyses, share data sets, and generate compelling reports of their data. The vibrant online community offers tens of thousands of shared data sets for students to analyze, in addition to all of the data sets in the text or online homework. StatCrunch is integrated directly into MyLab Statistics.
  
• NEW! StatCrunch Question Library: This library of questions provides opportunities for students to analyze and interpret data sets in StatCrunch. Instructors can assign individual questions from the library by topic or they can assign questions from the same data set as a longer assignment that spans multiple learning objectives.
  
• Empower each learner: Each student learns at a different pace. Personalized learning pinpoints the precise areas where each student needs practice, giving all students the support they need—when and where they need it—to be successful.
  
• NEW! Pre-built Learning Catalytics modules: The authors added pre-built modules for each chapter and more questions based on their experience using Learning Catalytics™.Learning Catalytics is a student response tool that uses smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage students in more interactive tasks and thinking during lecture. It fosters student engagement and peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics.
  
• Teach your course your way: Your course is unique. So whether you’d like to build your own assignments, teach multiple sections, or set prerequisites, MyLab gives you the flexibility to easily create your course to fit your needs.
  
• Getting Ready for Statistics Questions: This question library contains more than 450 exercises that cover the relevant review topics for a given section. These can be made available to students for extra practice or assigned as a prerequisite to other assignments.
  
• Improve student results: When you teach with MyLab, student performance often improves. That’s why instructors have chosen MyLab for over 15 years, touching the lives of over 50 million students.