> If the students are in a "science research" class, does that mean they > have data from their own research that they would want to understand > better? I think that would be much more motivating than anything else.
It might depends on the class - most high school science experiments aren't that compelling. Depending on the audience you might find publicly available datasets to be more interesting - there's plenty of stuff on sports, console games, ... that they might find more interesting. > "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, > divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the > vast and endless sea." [Antoine de St. Exupery] Exactly - I love that quote. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.