Online Repository for Facilitating Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Statistical Modeling Tools

Abstract

This paper presents an online repository created for facilitating teaching and learning statistical modeling tools at the undergraduate level. Statistical models and modeling techniques have always been considered the backbone in data analysis and statistical learning. Over the past decade, teaching of such topics has also gained an increasing attention in the undergraduate statistics and data science curricula. The developed online repository aims at improving the teaching and learning of statistical modeling tools in various undergraduate statistical modeling courses. We present the four core components of the repository, showcase some of its functionalities, and exhibit available resources online. Through our informal assessments after incorporating the online repository into our classrooms, our students seemed to have a uniformly better understanding of the related concepts and methods, which was reflected during the in-class discussions as well as in the subsequent tests in the courses.