[humanser] statistics course

Mon Aug 5 02:55:09 UTC 2013

I completely concur with JD and others,  collaborative support of the
professor is critical to your success. My undergraduate statts class was
really the  most challenging course of them all. Before I even applied for
graduate school I met with my favorite prof who was the graduate advisor. I
asked him  what the challenges might be for a blind student in a graduate
psychology program and he said he could not imagine teaching stats to a
student who is blind. Stats is necessary undergrad, and in any post grad
endeavor. When the time came for me to enroll I reminded him of his
confession and he stepped up. He first secured an outstanding TA (teaching
assistant) who was committed to making all the formulas accessible,
understood the nuances of behavioral sciences and statistics, and had a keen
manner of making the untangible concrete. She knew that SPSS was not readily
accessible with JAWS and partnered with me to work through all the steps
with her acting as a reader. The partnering with that professor allowed me
to  complete that course with an A. Advocating for one's self is important.
Meeting with the professor in advance so that all workbooks and text are
made accessible to your preference is important and I would advise that you
not rely upon the Disability Service office to negotiate  on your behalf.
You need to ascertain your need;  following your gleening an understanding
of the course expectation and objectives make your accommodation requests
known to both prof and Disability Service Office.

Master's and doctoral level stats classes are much more user friendly as the
objective is more focused on making the professional an astute consumer of
research so, there is a greater focus on research design, inference and
extrapolation. Students come to understand the interpretive value of
findings, strength of methodology and study design to be able to
appropriately apply research findings in your work, whether research,
clinical, or applied. Literature review, critical comparison and contrast
are typically part of those classes.
Mary Chappell
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From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kaiti
Shelton
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 7:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [humanser] statistics course

Hi,

I took a stats course just last semester.  Here are some things I would
suggest.

1.  The professor really is key.  You want someone who will be willing to
make reasonable accomodations and help you get the concepts, so
pre-screening your profs before you sign up for their section is good.
 I was able to talk to my disability services staff and they put me in touch
with a great professor who was willing to set up office hour appointments
and go over material ooutside of class with me.
Definitely try to pick someone who will be willing to work with you.

2. For graphs there are several things you could do depending on what type
of graph it is.  If your class is excel-based at all you can perform a lot
of the graph functions in excel.  If not, talk to your ds office about them
making the graphs for you.  My prof was very good about giving the ds people
advanced notice of what the homework would be, so they were able to make my
graphs and print them out on the Tiger for me to feel.  In other situations
when you have something like a table, your professor can write that in a
microsoft word document.  We had a system of putting guided note sheets and
any diagrams like that in documents on a flashdrive and it worked out very
well.

3.  I'd get in touch with Arielle about your specific program, but keep in
mind that if it is not accessible to you then your DS office and prof need
to work with you to find a reasonable alternative for the solution.  If you
have not started any dialogue between your professor, the ds office, and
yourself yet I would do that as quickly as possible.

On 8/4/13, JD Townsend <43210 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hello:
>
>
> Having taken a few statistics classes all I can say is that each one 
> has been different.  My favorite was in grad school as a part of my 
> social work
>
> program.  In it reading and criticing various research study was in 
> order with very little math.  The most difficult was in a psychology 
> undergraduate
>
> class that focused entirely on the math.  As in most classes the 
> teacher is
>
> the pivit point.  So, check out your favorite prof ranking site and 
> choose the best.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: crystal redick
> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 2:52 AM
> To: humanser at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [humanser] statistics course
>
> Hello All,
>
> I hope everyone is enjoying their summer so far. I have a couple 
> concerns I would like to discuss with you guys concerning my 
> statistics course I will start in the fall. I do not know much about 
> statistic courses, so I do not know what accomodations I should ask 
> for. Does this class require the use of graphs and if so how did you 
> work with them. I understand that the program SPSS is needed for the 
> course I will take, but what worries me is that I have no clue how to 
> use it. If any of you have used this program I would really appreciate 
> your advice. I look forward to hearing from everyone.
>
>
> Thank you,
> Crystal Redick
>
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