Blended learning module for a course in statistics
Rohana Yusoff1, Nur Hidayah Md Noh2, Sarah Yusoff3.
Instructors for mathematical and statistical courses generally feel that it is
quite impossible to have an effective teaching and learning process if the
blended learning teaching style were to be adopted. The traditional teaching
instruction of ‘chalk and talk’ still has many proponents. To fi nd out the truth
of this conjecture, we experimented with 298 students who had enrolled
for Introduction to Statistics course at a public university in Malaysia. We
had enrolled the course as Blended Learning with the Institute of Learning
and Quality Management (ILQAM) at the beginning of the semester
(May-October 2014). A video power point for each chapter of the course
syllabus was developed and a detailed blended learning scheme of work
was outlined to the students. Students were assessed using online quizzes,
written quizzes, written tests, and fi nal examination. Two hours of the total
four contact hours per week was allocated to students’ Self-Learning while
the other two hours was allocated to Assisted-Learning sessions. Results
from t-test showed that examination marks scored by students instructed
with blended learning were not signifi cantly different from examination
marks scored by students instructed using traditional teaching. Results of
students’ perceptions on the blended learning module were also presented.
In conclusion, blended learning is feasible for statistics courses and is
benefi cial to both students and instructors.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Download this article (This article has been downloaded 245 time(s))