Undergraduate Research, Assessment, and Applied Business Statistics — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

Undergraduate Research, Assessment, and Applied Business Statistics

Name: Thomas Groleau
Department: Academic support
Type of research: Independent research

Name: Julio Rivera
Department: Academic support
Type of research: Independent research

Abstract

As course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) grow in numbers across colleges and universities assessment of learning outcomes for these experiences remain a challenge. In particular, courses at the freshman and sophomore levels that are integral to upper level courses in the major have both course design challenges and assessment challenges. This poster will focus on the process of redesigning a standard applied business statistics course into a CURE. The purpose of the redesign was to better prepare students for research intensive courses including their senior thesis. The poster will also present assessment data centered around meeting departmental goals in statistics. We will focus on the use of specifications grading to both support undergraduate research and focus students on the course/departmental learning outcomes.

Poster file