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Murali Shanker |
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E-mail: mshanker@kent.edu |
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Phone: (330) 672-1165 |
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Office Hours: 2:00 - 3:00, T, Th; A401 BSA |
| Class Times: Section 001: 12:30-1:45, 200 BSA; Section 002: 3:45 - 5:00, 100 BSA |
Last day to withdraw from a course: 2 November2008
Prerequisites: Math 11011 (Algebra). Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite risk being deregistered from the class.
Enrollment: It is the student’s responsibility to ensure proper enrollment in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure proper enrollment. Should you determine an error in your class schedule, you have until 7 September 2008 to correct it with your advising office. If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester.
Students With Disabilities: University policy 3342-3-18 requires that students with disabilities be provided reasonable accommodations to ensure their equal access to course content. If you have documented disability and require accommodations, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to make arrangements for necessary classroom adjustments. Please note, you must first verify your eligibility for these through the Student Disability Services (contact 330-672-3391 or visit http://www.registrars.kent.edu/disability for more information on registration procedures).
Class time will devoted to lectures, ,projects, and problems that are designed to improve your understanding of the subject matter.
As with any new subject, comprehension improves with greater exposure. To facilitate this, I will be providing online access to every class lecture in multimedia format. These multimedia lectures will duplicate each lecture that I give in class, including the overhead presentation, any notations that I make on these slides, and the audio explaining the slides. These multimedia lectures can be accessed through the web.
There will be 7 quizzes, 4 examinations, and between 1 and 4 projects. All quizzes and examinations will be taken online, and are best taken using a standards-compliant web browser like Mozilla Firefox. Examinations and quizzes will consist of multiple choice, true or false, fill-in-the blanks, short-answer, matching, and calculation type questions. All online testing material can be found at the course web site on Vista WebCT, and can be taken from anywhere (home, work, school, BSA computer labs, in the airport, from a hammock sipping Mango juice, etc.) the student has access to the Web. All tests are open-book, open notes, but before taking any test, the student will be asked to indicate his/her agreement to an Academic Honesty Statement. This statement will certify that the student agrees to abide by university rules on cheating, and any failure to do so will result in a failing grade. Thus, for example, while you are allowed to use books and notes for the tests, it is cheating if you ask other students to help you while taking the tests. This statement is available online at your course website. Do this first before doing anything else.
Quizzes: There are 7 quizzes for this class. Each quiz is worth 10 points. The amount of time allotted for each quiz may vary, but will typically be around 25 minutes. You will have two attempts to take each quiz. The average result of the two attempts will be your score for that quiz. If you are happy with your first attempt, there is no need to take the second attempt. Results for the quizzes will be known immediately. Only the best 6 quizzes will be considered for your grade. Thus, the maximum points from quizzes is 60.
Examinations: There will be 4 examinations. Each examination is worth 50 points. Each exam (including the final) will take approximately 75 minutes. All examinations are cumulative. You will have only one attempt to take each examination. Results for the examination will be known only after the examination closes for all students. From the first three examinations, Exams 1, 2 and 3, only the best two examination scores will be considered. Exam 4 (Final Exam) is required for all students. Students will receive a score of 0 for any missed examination. Thus, the maximum score from examinations is 150.
Projects: There will be between 1 and 4 projects in class. These projects will test your understanding of using statistics to analyze, interpret, and present information from data. These projects will require the use of statistical software. While we will be using SPSS in class, you are welcome to use any statistical software. The maximum points from all projects combined will be 40. These projects will be assigned in class.
Attendance: While no attendance is taken, you are nevertheless responsible for all content, including projects and assignments, presented in class.
Dates and Timings: Test (quizzes, and examinations) dates are posted at your course website, and also given below. Tests can be taken at any time during which they are available. As a warning, please do not wait until the last minute to take your tests. As you must realize in dealing with technology, several things can and will go wrong. The only condition under which I will extend the due dates is if the Vista server goes down on the last available day. Any problems with your computer will not change the due date. As such, it is your responsibility to ensure that you complete the tasks in a timely fashion. You will get zero (0) points for all missed tests. Please ensure that your tests have been graded correctly, and notify the instructor immediately of any concerns. Specifically, you will have one week after the test scores are posted to notify the instructor of any errors. Projects will be assigned in class, and you will typically have one week from the time they are assigned to complete these projects.
Extra Credit: Periodically, you may be given additional homework / quizzes in class or online, each of which will count as extra credit towards your final grade. As missed quizzes / examinations cannot be made up, it is in your best interest to attend class regularly. Please check your electronic calendar regularly for any announcements about quizzes, etc.
Academic dishonesty: Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., tests, papers, cases, online quizzes) so as to get undeserved credit. The use of the intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense. It is the University's policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or course. Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University. Students must indicate their acceptance to this policy before they are allowed to take any quiz or exam. As soon as you log into your Vista course website, please take the Academic Honesty Statement quiz first. You will not have access to any other quiz or exam until you do so.
The maximum points for this course is 250 (60 quizzes + 150 examinations + 40 projects). The grading scale for this
class is as follows
| Grade |
A
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A-
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B+
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B
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B-
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C+
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C
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C-
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D+
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D
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| Minimum Score Required | 225 | 217 | 208 | 200 | 192 | 183 | 175 | 167 | 158 | 150 |
The following tables contains the class schedule. Note that all online tests (except the final exam) begin on the Monday of the week they are assigned, and are available until Sunday 11:50 p.m. (ET) of that week.
| Start Date | Class Periods | Chapters |
| August 26 | 1 | Introduction |
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August 28 |
2 |
Chapter 1: Data Collection |
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September 4 |
3 |
Chapter 3: Describing Data |
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September 16 | 3 |
Chapter 4: Probability, and Normal Distribution |
| September 25 |
1 | Review: Exam 1 |
| September 30 |
3 | Chapter 6: Sampling Distributions |
| October 9 |
3 | Chapter 7: Estimating Population Values -
Population Mean |
| October 21 | 1 | Review: Exam 2 |
| October 23 |
3 | Chapter 8: Hypothesis Testing |
| November 4 |
3 | Chapter 13: Linear Regression |
| November 18 | 1 | Review: Exam 3 |
| November 20 |
3 | Chapter 14: Multiple Regression |
| December 4 | 1 | Review: Exam 4 |
| Test | Chapters | Beginning Date |
Ending Date (11 p.m., ET) |
| Quiz 1 | 1, 3 | September 15 | September 21 |
| Quiz 2 | 4 | September 22 | September 28 |
| Exam 1 | 1, 3-4 | September 29 | October 5 |
| Quiz 3 | 6 | October 6 | October 12 |
| Quiz 4 | 7 | October 13 | October 19 |
| Exam 2 | 1, 3-4, 6-7 | October 20 | October 26 |
| Quiz 5 | 8 | November 3 | November 9 |
| Quiz 6 | 13 | November 10 | November 16 |
| Exam 3 | 1, 3-4, 6-8, 13 | November 17 | November 23 |
| Quiz 7 | 14 | December 1 | December 7 |
| Exam 4 (Final) | 1, 3-4, 6-8, 13-14 | December 1 | December 11 |