Statistical Consultancy as Service Learning in an Undergrad Statistics Course

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# Statistical Consultancy as Service Learning in an Undergrad Statistics Course
### Stacy DeRuiter
### 3 August 2020 JSM 127, Understanding Statistics for Good: Integrating Service Learning into Statistics Education

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# Motivation

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# Guidelines and Goals

## Real data, Statistical software, Problem-solving, Decision-making, Diversity, Communication

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# Service Learning at Calvin University

<https://calvin.edu/offices-services/service-learning-center>

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# Statistics Without Borders <https://swb.wildapricot.org/>

### Meeting today, 17:00: <https://swb.wildapricot.org/event-3889685>
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# The Course

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# STAT 245: Advanced Data Analysis
## A.K.A.: Applied Regression; or, GLMs & Friends

Thanks to: 
<https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggiraphExtra>

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# Applied Regression; or, GLMs & Friends

*images: mfviz.com/hierarchical-models, overstock.com, knowledgebase.aridhia.com/article/logistic-regression/*

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# Applied Regression; or, GLMs & Friends

*images: mfviz.com/hierarchical-models, overstock.com, knowledgebase.aridhia.com/article/logistic-regression/*

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# Applied Regression; or, GLMs & Friends

*images: mfviz.com/hierarchical-models, overstock.com, knowledgebase.aridhia.com/article/logistic-regression/*
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# Applied Regression; or, GLMs & Friends

*images: mfviz.com/hierarchical-models, knowledgebase.aridhia.com/article/logistic-regression/*
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# Service-Learning Projects

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## Statistical Consultancy as Service Learning

![calvin partners](images/partners.png)
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# More (Global) Project partners

# Join us? sld33@calvin.edu

*world icon: thenounproject.com*
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# Project Structure 1.0

*icon: flaticon.com*

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# Project Structure 1.0: Oops.

*icons: flaticon.com, vectorstock.com, icon-library.com*

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# Project Structure 2.0

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# Project Structure 2.0: Three Key Questions
 

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- Annotated Bibliography
- Tidy Dataset
- Pretty Figures
- Regression Model (rationale, results, figures, interpretation)
- Interactive map or app

*icons: thenounproject.com, measureevaluation.org, mfviz.com/hierarchical-models*
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# Student Perspective
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# Student Time Investment (Fall 2019)

## Goal: 40 hours or 4-5 hours per week

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# Student Survey (n = 9, or 33%)
## Effects of Projects

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# Students: Assessment of Group Work

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# Students: Difficulty of Tasks

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# Students: Working with Partners

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# Partner Perspective
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# Partner Survey (n = 7, 50%)

## Motivation: They do it for us!

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# Partner Experience

## How Useful were Results?

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# Some Reflections

- Gratitude to partners
- Incredible learning opportunity
- Build connection and community
- Weak business plan
  - Time constraints
  - Division of attention: normal course content, project
- Practice learning *by doing* in community; not learn, *then* do
- Experience "real" statistical process

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# Similar Initiatives

## This session! 
### Purdue University StatCom (Andrew Thomas)
### Cal State Monterey Bay (Alana Unfried)
### Jefferson Comm. College Ctr. Community Studies (Joel LaLone)

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# Conclusions and Perspectives
 
- Projects yield 
 - motivation + struggle
 - success if viz and models *communicate clearly*
 - practice, internalize statistical process
 - connections across the curriculum
- It’s not (too) hard to mastermind

###...BUT

- Student engagement?
- Value for partner organizations?
- How can we turn **time limitation** into an asset?

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## Thank You!

### Contact Stacy DeRuiter
### Email: sld33@calvin.edu
### Twitter: @slderuiter

Slides: <https://stacyderuiter.github.io/service-stats-jsm/slides.html>