Places to get Ideas for Projects

• Projects from STATS 1998

• Projects from STATS 1996

• Some other ideas for projects can be found on-line at the Journal of Statistics Education Web page. Past issues are available at http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/info/jse/. In particular, check out the following (recommended by John Holcomb):

  • Fillebrown, S (1994) "Using Projects in an Elementary Statistics Course for Non-Science Majors" Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 2, Number 2. (link)

  • Love, T. E. (1998) "A Project-Driven Second Course", Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 6, Number 1. (link)

  • Mackisack, M. (1994) "What is the Use of Experiments Conducted by Statistics Students?", Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 2, Number 1. (link)

  • Short, T. H. and J. G. Pigeon (1998) "Protocols and Pilot Studies: Taking Data Collection Projects Seriously", Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 6, Number 1. (link)

  • Shoemaker, A. L. (1996) "What's Normal? -- Body Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate", Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 4, Number 2. (link)

    Note: This project uses "canned data", but I always thought it could be done by students to see if they got similar results

  • Smith, G. (1998) "Learning Statistics By Doing Statistics", Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 6, Number 3. (link)

    Note: There are 20 project ideas as an appendix in this article.