Một tài liệu cần thiết cho tất cả mọi sinh viên đại học, đặc biệt là sinh viên các ngành xã hội. Tài liệu dài 324 trang, sử dụng phần mềm R.
Download tại đây: http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~msby/StatThink/IntroStat.pdf
Nhân tiện, tài liệu này cũng rất hay, đơn giản, gần gũi với những người ... sợ Toán! Tựa của tài liệu (thật ra là một chương sách) là Lying with statistics.
Download tại đây: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/bag-of-tricks/chap10.pdf
Và một tài liệu khác nữa, How to lie with statistics, tác giả là Darrell Huff, dài 129 trang. Tài liệu xuất bản lần đầu năm 1954, tái bản rất nhiều lần, bản được giới thiệu ở đây là bản năm 1991.
Download tại đây: http://bio.sfu-kras.ru/files/3515_3_Huff-HowToLieWithStatistics.pdf
Download tại đây: http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~msby/StatThink/IntroStat.pdf
Nhân tiện, tài liệu này cũng rất hay, đơn giản, gần gũi với những người ... sợ Toán! Tựa của tài liệu (thật ra là một chương sách) là Lying with statistics.
Download tại đây: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/bag-of-tricks/chap10.pdf
Và một tài liệu khác nữa, How to lie with statistics, tác giả là Darrell Huff, dài 129 trang. Tài liệu xuất bản lần đầu năm 1954, tái bản rất nhiều lần, bản được giới thiệu ở đây là bản năm 1991.
Download tại đây: http://bio.sfu-kras.ru/files/3515_3_Huff-HowToLieWithStatistics.pdf
For-profit
colleges are either an acceptable alternative to nonprofit schools or a
symptom of a failing higher-education system, depending on whom you
ask. While critics and numerous studies argue that for-profit schools
offer higher loan-default rates, lower quality of education and fewer
job prospects than nonprofit schools, many from the for-profit sector
believe these schools are quicker to respond to job market demands,
offer more flexible class scheduling and cater to a student demographic
that may have few options.
"One
of the biggest myths right now surrounding for-profits is that they're
all created equal, and they aren't," says Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D.,
president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, a higher
education policy and research nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.
"Certainly there are institutions that are serving their students well,
and there are institutions that are not serving their students well.
That's a similar model that you'll find in the nonprofit sector."
"(For-profit
schools) tend to be academic learning centers," says Steve Gunderson,
president and CEO of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and
Universities, a trade organization of for-profit colleges based in
Washington, D.C. "They're often in strip malls that are along major
thoroughfares in the city. In other words, they're focused almost
exclusively on the academics of postsecondary education, not the social,
cultural parts that many of us enjoy."
Relatively
few recent high school grads attending school full time flock to the
halls of for-profit schools. These schools typically cater to
nontraditional students, including older students with full-time jobs,
parents, military veterans, at-risk students and those who need flexible
class scheduling.
For-profit
schools generally cost more than their four-year counterparts. A recent
report produced by the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education,
Labor, & Pensions, backed by Sen. Tom Harkin, shows that a degree at
for-profit two-year schools is approximately four times more expensive
than the same degree at a nonprofit community college. The typical
for-profit bachelor's degree program costs 19 percent more than a
comparable degree at a nonprofit four-year public school.
The
30 major for-profit education companies analyzed in the Committee on
Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions report spent an average of 17.2
percent of revenue on instructional costs in 2009. In comparison,
four-year public schools spent 29.5 percent, and private colleges and
universities spent 32.7 percent, according to 2010 data from the
National Center for Education Statistics .
For-profits
aren't the only institutions with low graduation rates. Public schools
such as Kent State University at East Liverpool in Ohio, Texas Southern
University in Houston and Rogers State University in Claremore, Okla.,
all have six-year graduation rates of 12 percent or less among full-time
students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Private schools have their share as well with schools such as Martin
University in Indianapolis and Allen University in Columbia, S.C.,
boasting graduation rates of 8 percent and 9 percent, respectively.