Hi everyone:
I need your help with something. I have a student who just does not
understand z-scores. I have met with him for at least two hours outside
of class and he still doesn't understand the concept. In particular, he
doesn't seem to understand why you need to include standard deviation
: Hetzel, Rod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 2/24/2003 5:08 PM
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Subject: z-score woes
Hi everyone:
I need your help with something. I have a student who just does not
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> Subject: z-score woes
> "I have a student who just does not understand z-scores. I have met with him for at
> least two hours outside of class and he still doesn't understand the concept. In
> particular, he doesn't seem to understand why you need
Rod:
When introducing the class in the use of Z-scores (read "Zed Scores" in
the Great White North, eh?) I think that it's important to stress the idea
that we are talking about how an individual does _relative to the rest of
the distribution_.
An example I use involves a bet between two roommate
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>From: Robert Grossman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:39 AM
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>> Subject: z-score woes
>> "I have a student who just does not
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From: Mike Scoles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:08 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: RE: z-score woes
Many students have trouble with z-scores because they are introduced
with a
formula. I have had succes
Rod,
Maybe an example closer to home would help. Give him as an example his
score on two hypothetical exams in the same class. Set it up so his
numerical score on the first exam is lower than his numerical score on the
second exam, but on the first exam is above the mean of the class and
below
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 4:02 PM
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> Subject: Re: z-score woes
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> Rod,
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> Maybe an example closer to home would help. Give him as an
> example his score on two hypothetical exams in the same
> class. Se
This is going to sound nutty - but has worked for me in the past in similar
situations. Use examples that are silly and personally relelvant - for
example if the student is a cat person one might use (artificially inflaed)
numbers of furballs,or if the person is into dance, numbers of point sho
