Does anyone read our emails?
Our school switched from paper to electronic newsletters some years ago in order to reduce paper consumption. Since that time, the question has lingered. “Does anyone read the newsletters?” As teachers...
View ArticleGoogle Analytics and page trends
The new Google Analytics “Intelligence” feature looks pretty useful, but Analytics is still missing the feature I want the most. I would like to be able to see at a glance the biggest gains and losses...
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Blog Use
Happy New Year! To commemorate the end of the year, I took a look at this blog’s web statistics. A comparison of the number of posts to the number of pageviews is very interesting. I wrote the most...
View ArticleTeach Statistics Before Calculus
In this 2009 TED talk, mathematics professor and author Arthur Benjamin asks why schools give so much emphasis to calculus and so little to statistics, when arguably statistics is so essential to...
View ArticleQuantitative study of school programs
On reviewing last winter’s issue of Independent School Magazine, I was struck by stories of schools conducting rigorous studies of their own practice, particularly quantitative studies. Granted, the...
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