Resumen de Statmedia projects in Statistical Education

Antoni Arcas Pons , Antonio Miñarro Alonso , Miquel Calvo Llorca

• The aim of the Statmedia group is to develop new tools to help in the teaching of applied statistics, hence improving the academic performance of our students and their motivation towards statistics. We consider that learning should be based on practical cases to motivate and encourage student participation. It was this consideration that prompted us to develop our rst project, Statmedia I, a multimedia text of statistics. In order to make adaptation to the ESHE (European Space of Higher Education) smoother, we have also been working on an Internet-based design, publication and management system comprised of dierent sets of practical sessions on statistics, with specic data sets for each student in the course.

  The system provides for a wide variety of questions and also automated student-specic answer correction.

  In our present project, Statmedia III, we focus on activities rather than on isolated sessions in order to allow teachers to design an specic path for continuous assessment.

  All the projects are based on HTML and Java technology and are independent of any commercial software.

  In recent years, over 700 students per year, in dierent rst and second cycle studies, have used our projects with a good overall satisfaction index as conrmed by dierent surveys. Students, teachers and Statmedia group members rmly agree on the convenience of case-based learning with student-specic data.