Hostage of the Software: Experiences in Teaching Inferential Statistics to Undergraduate Human-Computer Interaction Students and a Survey of the Literature

Abstract

Students' knowledge of inferential statistics is lacking in many Computer Science study programs. Yet, the needs for inferential statistic skills have emerged with new fields of study such as human-computer interaction involving observation of human activity. This paper presents experiences teaching inferential statistics to undergraduate computer science students with a focus on the actual goals of the investigations and not the mechanisms and mathematics of statistics. The teaching framework involves teaching statistics as a set of systematic black-box tools.

Where Are the Students? A Study of Norwegian Technology Students’ Perceptions of Emerging Trends in Higher Education

“…One of these group projects involves design thinking which is intended to show train the students to get value from collaborating in teams [19]. The second group project involves a controlled empirical experiment [20,21,22].…”