Teaching
My approach to teaching involves two main ideas: that knowledge makes life interesting, and that statistical concepts are best made accessible through other fields that people understand and enjoy. I apply these ideas in every class that I teach, using engaging examples to get the students to learn data sense and to understand the ‘why’ of statistics in addition to the ‘what’ and ‘how.’
One class I developed is ST542: Statistical Practice. It is a capstone course teaching soft skills through projects to our masters level students. At the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings, I presented an invited poster on teaching this class because it is a large, project-based consulting class.
In 2019, I began teaching an undergraduate practicum with Dr. Stephany Dunstan. This is another capstone course where students get a rich research experience in a classroom setting.
In 2021, Luo Xiao, Jon Stallrich, and I were awarded an internal DELTA grant with to develop supplemental online materials for the first semester of our department's core PhD-level statistical theory course.
Training videos: In 2020, Julia Sharp, Megan Higgs, and I completed a series of videos with notes and discussion questions to help train collaborative statisticians. Our paper was published in the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, and the videos are all available online. This project was funded by a grant from the American Statistical Association.
Courses I teach include:
Undergraduate Courses
ST114: Introduction to Computing: Python (Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
ST431: Introduction to Experimental Design (Fall 2016, 2017, 2018)
ST432: Introduction to Survey Sampling (Spring 2014)
ST491: Practice of Statistics (Spring 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Graduate Courses
ST512: Experimental Statistics for the Biological Sciences II (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018)
ST542: Statistical Practice (Spring 2017, 2018, 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
ST555: Statistical Programming I (Spring 2023)
ST563: Introduction to Statistical Learning (Spring 2021)
ST590: Statistical Practice (Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
ST641: Statistical Consulting (Spring 2013)
ST841: Statistical Consulting (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022)
Additional Teaching
SIBS (Guest lecturer: Summer 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023)
NCSU's Summer Academic Program (Summer 2013, 2014, 2015)