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标题：Using projects in teaching introductory business statistics: The case of Tshwane University of Technology Business School
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作者：Richard Shambare
期刊名称：African Journal of Business Management
印刷版ISSN：1993-8233
出版年度：2011
卷号：5
期号：11
页码：4176-4184
DOI：10.5897/AJBM10.709
语种：English
出版社：Academic Journals
摘要：Statistics is an essential subject in Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes. It equips students with much needed ‘data analysis’ skills useful for successful completion of MBA research projects and, more importantly, in management decision-making. All the same, teaching or learning statistics is frustrating and stressful, to both instructors and students. Recent literature proposes using projects as an effective teaching method for teaching Business Statistics, This paper reports on the author’s experience of using project-based approaches in the teaching of introductory business statistics in the MBA programme at Tshwane University of Technology, a South African university. The purpose of the study was to determine the consequence of using projects in teaching Business Statistics. Specifically, to discover the extent to which projects facilitate the learning of data analysis skills among MBA students. In total, 23 MBA students were exposed to small in-class projects and more intensive group projects. Results suggest that using projects enhances students’ retention of statistical theory and its application in real-life management problems.
关键词：Active learning; business schools; business statistics; statistics; MBA; teaching techniques