Pathway to Statistics

Career Field:  Healthcare/General Multi-Pathway

Adult Career Pathway:  Academic Skills

Type:  Concurrent ABE & Career and Technical Education (CTE) college course

Prepares Students for: Math credit earned at Central Lakes College for various health care degrees; supports students who transition to college courses for nursing, social sciences, other health sciences, business and accounting

Target Student Population: Central Lakes College degree-seeking students; acceptance to class determined by Central Lakes Faculty or Accuplacer cut score

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Course Description: Pathway to Statistics is a co-requisite support for students in a Statistics course at Central Lakes College. Topics discussed include displaying and describing data, the normal curve, regression, probability, statistical inference, confidence intervals, and hypothesis tests with applications in the real world. Students also have the opportunity to analyze data sets using technology.

Duration: 1.5-hour class meets 2 days per week for 14 weeks = 42 hours

Additional ABE open lab support hours were also available to all students.

Curriculum Materials:  Curriculum link gives access to weekly study guides, supplemental digital support materials, and unit lesson plans.

Curriculum Pluses:  The curriculum is broken into 14 weeks, and most weeks include a teacher copy and student copy of materials.  The curriculum uses an open-source online textbook.

Curriculum Drawbacks:  Currently, there is not a scope and sequence for this course to determine what is the focus for each week.

Author:  Erica Henke, ABE teacher

Created:  2022

Contact:

Erica Henke, Brainerd ABE
[email protected]