My Contact Info

• Name: Clare Heimer
• Email: cheimer@ccsf.edu
• Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:10-11am, Fridays 9:10-10am through ConferZoom. Click on ConferZoom in the Course Navigation Menu on the left, then on "Appointment Booking." If the course navigation menu is not visible, click on the icon in the upper left corner to expand the Course Navigation Menu. If you are using the Canvas app, click Back and then select ConferZoom.
  
  
• I'll respond to your messages within 48 hours on weekdays (it might take me a little longer if you message me on weekends or holidays). Once the course begins, I prefer to get messages through the Canvas "Inbox".

Communication Plan

• I will respond to your messages within 48 hours during the workweek (Monday-Friday) excluding holidays or if you are notified otherwise.
• Your work will be reviewed and I will comment on it within a week of the due date unless you are informed otherwise. Please note that you will receive private comments on your discussion posts, your course journal entries, and your project and final exams. Your weekly quizzes also contain feedback for your own self-assessment.
• I will participate in the weekly discussions, but will not respond to each individual student. You will receive private comments on your discussion posts.
• I encourage you to stop by my office hours! Click on ConferZoom in the Course Navigation Menu on the left, then on "Appointment Booking." If the course navigation menu is not visible, click on the icon in the upper left corner to expand the Course Navigation Menu. If you are using the Canvas app, click Back and then select ConferZoom.

Building Community

The heart of this class is the discussion forum. Each week you and your classmates will analyze and discuss the issues that come up in the material this week. Each time this class is offered, I am humbled by the thoughtfulness of all of you, your posts, and your responses to each other inform my understanding of the topics. We learn from each other, from our varied experiences, from our different world views. I look forward to participating in discussions with you.

Your study group also has its own discussion page, where you can start new discussions with your study group. (Click on "People" in the course navigation to find your study group.) I think you should have conversations with your study group as regularly as you can, about any DIY activities you think are interesting or you're having trouble with.

Instructor Announcements 

I'll post announcements on the “Announcements” page in Canvas throughout the semester. Canvas notifies you according to your Notification Preferences (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. as soon as I create an Announcement.

Q&A Discussion

• The “Q&A Discussion” is located in Module 0. This discussion is for you to ask for assistance of me and/or your classmates.

Descriptive statistics: organization of data, sample surveys, experiments and observational studies; measures of central tendency and dispersion; linear regression and correlation. Probability theory. Random variables: expected value, variance, independence, probability distributions, normal approximation. Sampling, sampling distributions, and statistical inference: estimating population parameters, interval estimation, standard tests of hypotheses.

Prerequisites/corequisites/advisories

You have to take Math 80S concurrently with this section of Math 80. Technically Math 80S has a separate syllabus, linked here. The way the two courses are structured is completely integrated: if you read this syllabus but skip the Math 80S syllabus, you won't be missing anything important. The grade structure of the two courses is exactly the same; the activities for Math 80S will be integrated into Math 80.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Critique studies based on sample statistics in order to make informed judgments on the reliability of the statistical presentation or argument.
2. Analyze raw data using graphical, tabular, and analytical exploratory tools in order to investigate and describe patterns in data, make comparison among data sets, and look for relationships between data sets.
3. Evaluate, interpret, and describe data distributions through the study of sampling distributions and probability theory.
4. Apply appropriate statistical models to estimate population parameters and determine the validity of hypotheses.

Class Meetings

There will be study sessions over ConferZoom on Wednesdays from 9:10am to 10am. Attendance at these sessions is expected unless there's some strong reason you can't make it: they're a chance for us to have a conversation and see each other's faces, and if you're able to attend you should attend.

Course Web Site

Students will use Canvas for everything related to the course.  I can help with the course material and with some Canvas issues. But, if you need help uploading an assignment or with the mechanics of Canvas, Canvas help is the number to call.

For 24/7 help with Canvas call: 1-844-592-2198.

Textbooks

All the text you need will be integrated into Canvas or linked from here! You don't need to buy a textbook.

Canvas

Students will use Canvas for everything related to the course.  I can help with the course material and with some Canvas issues. But, if you need help uploading an assignment or with the mechanics of Canvas, Canvas help is the number to call.

For 24/7 help with Canvas call: 1-844-592-2198.

Zoom Video Conferencing

We'll be having study sessions over Zoom, and my office hours are over Zoom. You can find all of that under the "ConferZoom" link in the course navigation. If you need help getting Zoom set up on your computer or phone, please send me a message! I'm happy to help.

Required Software

• Adobe Reader (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• Update your browser (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Important Dates

• Day Class Begins: August 17, 2020
• Day Class Ends: December 10, 2020
• Last Day to Drop with refund: August 28, 2020
• Last Day to Drop without a 'W' symbol: September 4, 2020
• Last Day to Drop with a W or apply for leave of absence: November 5, 2020
• Final Exam: December 11-18, 2020 (you'll have a few days to work on your final exam, which will be designed to take a couple hours of work. Details to come later in the semester.)

Dropping the Class

If you decide to discontinue this course, it is your responsibility to officially drop it to avoid getting no refund (after 10% of course length), a W symbol (after 20%), or a grade (after 60%).

Attendance

If you go a full week without submitting anything on Canvas, I may start moving to drop you from the course. I'll try to make sure not to drop anyone who's committed to continuing with the course when an emergency comes up – keep me in the loop if this happens! But staying enrolled in the course without actively engaging with it is unsustainable, and will result in you being dropped..

Late Policy

All assignments are due at 11:59 p.m. PST on the due date. Don't get started down a path of submitting late work: it makes it much more difficult for you to learn the material when the people you'd like to be engaging with about it have moved on to something else. People tend to think it'll be easier for them to stay on a more relaxed pace than the pace the assignments proceed at, but in fact it's harder to keep yourself on a turning-everything-in-one-week-late plan than to just do everything on time.

Methods of Evaluation

Each week you will submit several assessments to me: there will be at least one discussion post expected each week, one online quiz each week, and most weeks there will be a writing assignment. (Some writing assignments will be in groups.)

In addition to these, the most important thing for you to submit each week is a self-assessment, where you look over everything you've done and tell me where you think you're at with that week's material. Your self-assessment will give a holistic picture of where you're at for that week. You'll ultimately give yourself a grade for your work that week. The grade you give yourself should reflect how well you're living up to your potential as a student that week – I'm not asking you to add up points for me, but to think about what you've done well and what you could do better.

When I review your work for the week, I'll be using your self-assessment to guide me, and I'll use it to give you an overall grade for the week. Most of the time, I'm expecting to agree with you about where your knowledge is at for the week. But I will notice if your work doesn't match what you're suggesting.

Exams

We'll have one or two midterm exams during the semester, and one final exam at the end. Before each exam, we'll do some summative self-assessment where we'll work together to figure out where you are in the course and where you need to improve. The exam will then give you a chance to show that you have improved in the areas you planned to.

Since the goal of the exam is to encourage you to review concepts you didn't understand well before, you won't have to do the whole exam – just the areas (weeks) where we agreed you needed to show growth. And the grades for those weeks will only improve from the exam.

Grading Policy

Visit the “Grades” in Canvas to keep track of your grades. You'll have a grade for each week; I'll give that grade during the following week, by looking over your self-assessment and comparing it to the work you submitted. Your weekly grades will be updated if you show on an exam that you've improved or solidified your understanding since that week. Your final grade will be an average of your grades for each week.

Individual assignment grades will be shown in the "Raw Scores" category, but they only count towards your overall grade by way of feeding into our holistic assessment of how you did as a student that week.

 How do I view my grades, teacher comments, and an assignment rubric as a student?

An “F” grade indicates that a student attended, participated and completed the course but failed to master the course curriculum.

An “FW” grade indicates the student stopped attending a course after the “last day to withdraw” deadline and subsequently did not submit any work or participate in any exams. Please check with your counselor and financial aid advisor for possible implications of the FW grade on residency and financial aid status.

If you need classroom or testing accommodations because of a disability, or have emergency medical information to share with me, or need special arrangements in case the building needs to be evacuated, please make an appointment with me as soon as possible. My office hours are by Zoom videoconferencing; click the ConferZoom link in the course navigation.

Students seeking disability-related accommodations are encouraged to also register with Disabled Students Programs and Services located in Room 323 of the Rosenberg Library (415) 452-5481. Please see the DSPS website (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for more information and alternate locations.

Students who register in CCSF classes are required to abide by the CCSF Student Code of Conduct (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Violation of the code is basis for referral to the Student Conduct Coordinator or dismissal from class or from the College. See the Office of Student Affairs (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Collaborating on or copying of tests or homework in whole or in part will be considered an act of academic dishonesty and result in a grade of 0 for that test or assignment. I encourage students to share information and ideas, but not their work. See these links on Plagiarism:

Encourage Academic Integrity and Prevent Plagiarism (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Citing Information Sources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Student Expectations

You will succeed in this course if you meet the following expectations:

• Complete the assigned activities. Please let me know as soon as you can concerning difficulties that you may have in getting assignments in on time. 
• Complete the discussion posts and replies within the given window of time. Our discussions are much more vibrant when we all participate!
• Complete the weekly quizzes, the writing assignments, and the midterm and final exams on time.
• Think critically about the weekly topics. Is something surprising? Is it new to you? How does it contrast with what you know about XYZ or how does it compare to ABC?
• Consistently self-assess, using the weekly and midterm/final self-assessments, to see what you're doing well and what you need to improve on.
• Do your own and your best work.

Instructor Expectations

Here is what you can expect of me:

• I will respond to your email or message within two days during the week unless I inform you otherwise.
• I will treat you and your ideas with respect.
• I will grade your writing assignments and discussion posts and replies within a week. (If you have posted late work, it may take longer.) Grades on the final exam will be done within a week.
• You will see your grades in the Canvas Gradebook.
• I will work hard to make this a great class.