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This is a free Teaching Resource Pack for Statistics and Science A-level Teaching.

Designed by De Montfort University, Leicester, and BASF Pharma, a Nottingham-based pharmaceutical company, with the help of the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education and Nottingham Trent University, this pack is intended to provide a valuable and practical resource to teachers involved in teaching statistical methods within A-level science and mathematics syllabuses.

The pack consists of student cards containing background information and real datasets from medical research. The problems covered include:

Summarising data

Hypothesis testing:
   Z-test
   Chi-squared test
   t-test
   Wilcoxon rank sum test

Scatter plots and box plots

Correlation

Linear regression and prediction

Epidemiology

Topics for student projects

The student cards are accompanied by a Teacher's Guide containing outline solutions for all problems.

The pack was created to promote the appreciation of statistics amongst students and is the first of a series of packs planned by the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education.

A limited number of these resource packs are available free of charge by sending a C4 size SAE with a 44p stamp to the following address:

RSS Centre for Statistical Education (Teaching Resource Pack)
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham
NG1 4BU

Alternatively, files containing the full contents of the packs can be downloaded in pdf form. They need Adobe Acrobat Reader to be viewed. If you do not have this program you can down load it from here FREE. The Data Tables can also be downloaded as excel worksheets.