Hi Joanne,
I think your idea is an excellent but very challenging one. I've been involved with the statstutor project at www.statstutor.ac.uk which is intended to be a free central source of open access statistics resources aimed at HE (but also post-16) that are correct and have academic integrity. We have recently been asking for, and receiving, contributions from the statistics teaching community via the statstutor community project at www.statstutor.ac.uk/communities . The submission of resources from the community requires that a second reviewer from another HE institution reviews the material before we post it and the resources acknowledge both the author(s) and the reviewer. This follows a similar process that the mathcentre project (www.mathcentre.ac.uk) has been using for some years now quite successfully for open access maths resources.
The requirements of the reviewers is stated as follows "Each author must get their submission checked for content, academic integrity as well as for grammatical/typographical errors by a suitably qualified colleague who, like the author, is named on the leaflet as the reviewer." However, we don't provide a formal set of criteria as such. Some contributors that have posted a repeated number of resources have made the process of review easier by creating a spreadsheet template for reviewers to complete. I will contact you offline to give you more details but wanted to mention this here in case anyone else is interested in this.
The statstutor site does invite comments from users and we have had one or two typos pointed out to us in the past that have since been corrected and so in a sense these are continually assessed by the teaching and learning community. I think this is a valuable way that resources like these can be continuously reviewed.
The statstutor site also includes links to resources hosted elsewhere that we consider to be of potential value to HE students but we don't assess those linked resources for correctness and academic integrity. I'm sure reviewing resources hosted by others might be a controversial issue!
I think developing a single set of criteria to review statistics resources is going to be difficult since it depends very much on who the resources are targeted at and what the aims for developing them were. Plus I doubt many are developed with formal Intended Learning Outcomes. But I do think it would be of value to all of us that review these type of resources.
Best wishes
Alun
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Dr Alun Owen
Head of Mathematics
University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester WR2 6AJ
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Subject: Criteria for Reviewing Online Statistics Resources
Hello All,
I am currently conducting a thorough review of open access statistics resources on the web. I am in no way short of resources to include and discuss within the review, but it would be very helpful to have some more standardised criteria for reviewing. Has anyone developed, published or even see, criteria specific to reviewing online statistics resources (including for the review of data sets) that they would be willing to share with me? With so many open educational resources I am sure somewhere out there must be some guidelines for deciding what is helpful and what is not.
In addition - as it is seemingly more and more likely that I will have to develop some criteria for this task - does anyone have any suggestions for what should be included within the criteria?
Thanks for your responses.
Joanne Ingram
Research Associate in Medical Statistics University of Edinburgh
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