StatLit Grammar Drill Programs

 

Instructions for Reading and Writing.  Templates for Descriptions (Ch 4 and 5) and Comparisons (Ch 6).

 

Documentation:  Video (#1) takes longest to download.  Text (#4) is quickest to download.

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READING DRILL PROGRAM:

Descriptions Drill Program: Identifying part & whole in describing percentages & rates* (Ch 4 and 5)

                        Program documentation:   

                            1. Video Demo (SWF) [4.7 mb, 70 sec download] 
                            2.  PowerPoint Demo with Audio (slides 6-11).  [1.9 mb, 14 sec download]

                            3.  Slides Handout w/o audio 6up    Slides Handout w/o audio 1up

 

Comparisons Drill Programs: Identifying part & whole, test and base in comparing percentages & rates* (Ch 6)

                        Program documentation:   

                            1. Video Demo (SWF) [0.0 mb, 00 sec download]   

                            2. PowerPoint Demo w/o Audio  (1.6 mb; 13 sec download)  

                            3. Slide Handout 6up      

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WRITING DRILL PROGRAM: [**Being Updated**]

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Internet Explorer 10  or 11 users must enable the compatibility mode for proper display of the reading and writing programs.  IE10 instructions   IE-11 instructions

Microsoft Edge users.  Click on the three button icon (Settings and More) in the upper right. Select "Open with Internet Explorer".  See the IE-11 instructions above. 
   From Tools menu, select 'Compatibility View Settings'.  In the 'Add this website' box, enter www.StatLit.org and then press 'Add' and press 'Close'.

 

PROGRAM >  Writing descriptions of percentages & rates as presented in tables & graphs (Ch 4)

                        Program documentation:   

                            1. Video Demo (SWF) [2.7 mb, 20 sec download] 

                            2. PowerPoint demo w/o Audio (1.2 mb, 11 sec download)

                            3. Slides Handout 6up     Slides Handout 1up       Audio description (5 min; 620 kb, mp3).

                            4. Text describing how to write descriptions of percentages and rates. 
                      

PROGRAM > Writing comparisons of percentages & rates as presented in tables & graphs (Ch 5)

                          Program documentation:   

                            1. Video Demo (SWF) [0.0 mb, 00 sec download]

                            2. PowerPoint Demo w/o Audio (0.9 mb, 9 sec download)

                            3. Slides Handout 6up           Audio description (mp3)

                            4. Text describing how to write comparisons of percentages and rates

 

Version history for the part-whole drill program

2021 version: created by Prokop Schield.  Compatible with current browsers

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The following documentation is available for the Writing Drill program.

• An Introduction to a Web-Based Statement Validator for Rates and Percentages by Burnham and Schield (2006) IASSIST
• An Online Grammar-Parsing Program that Decodes Ordinary English Descriptions & Comparisons of Rates & Percentages by Burnham and Schield (2005) in the Proceedings of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistical Education, p. 2202 - 2210.
• Statistical Literacy Workshop: Using a Learning Object by Schield (2006) at IASSIST.

Capella University has used an older version of this program.