ISSR Social Science Data Archive

Teaching Resources

ARTIST is designed to "to help teachers assess statistical literacy, statistical reasoning, and statistical thinking in first courses of statistics. This site can be useful in any research methods course where data and statistical concepts will be introduced

CAIS is an on-line, free textbook on statistics with some interactive features. The Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics is created and maintained by Richard Lowry, Professor of Psychology at Vassar College.

DITC - Data in the Classroom was developed and is maintained by the Department of Sociology at UCLA. "It is designed to help sociologists enrich their teaching through the use of data in the classroom."

Economics Network   Based in the UK, this site contains over 600 sources of online learning and teaching materials, an assessment bank of over 1300 essay questions and problem sets, and links to online economic datasets that are freely available.

Everday Sociology   "The Everyday Sociology weblog is edited by sociologist Karen Sternheimer, and her contributors include a wide range of practicing sociologists. Visitors to the site can scroll through recent entries and also browse several categories, which include crime and deviance, sex and gender, social psychology, and popular culture and consumption. Also, users may wish to look through the archives, which date back to June 2007. Along with being eminently readable, the site also includes teaching activities and video interviews." (from the Scout Report - March 14, 2008)

Inferential Statistics is a web site for an online textbook hosted by Vassar College and developed by Richard Lowry.

Probability and Statistics Laboratory is a project developed by Kyle Siegrist and the site " provides free, high quality, interactive, web-based resources for students and teachers of probability and statistics. It consists of an integrated set of components that includes expository text, applets, data sets, biographical sketches, and an object library."

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics hosts "HyperStat Online, Java applets that demonstrate various statistical concepts, examples of real data with analyses and interpretation, and some basic statistical analysis tools."

SDA is a set of programs for the documentation and Web-based analysis of survey data. UCLA maintains a federated site license for SDA. The ISSR Data Archive assists faculty who would like to use on-line data analysis in courses.

StatSoft is an on-line textbook for teaching general statistical concepts. Use the search engine to find specific topics or browse the table of contents.

SurfStat is an online textbook for teaching statistics hosted at Australian National University.

Teaching Resources Depository was created by the California State University and contains teaching modules and exercises, materials for developing informaiton competence and critical thinking, course syllabi and links to other teaching tools.

ICPSR Teaching Resources

ICPSR Instructional Resources are modules for using ICPSR resources in teaching.

ICPSR Online Learning Center (Beta Site) "ICPSR's Online Learning Center (OLC) is the result of discussions with teaching faculty about using data in their classrooms and the challenges such an undertaking can entail. Faculty can use the OLC to demonstrate concepts in class by simply clicking the links within the Data-driven Learning Guides. The guides are also set up so that students can easily work though topics assigned by the instructor - no special software or previous statistical knowledge is required."

ICPSR Data-driven Learning Guides are contributed by researchers and ICPSR members. They can be freely used by faculty, staff, or students at member institutions.

Teaching with Government Data

SSDAN contains datasets and teaching exercises based on the United States Census. The Social Science Data Analysis Network is a university-based organization that creates user quides, web sites, and hands-on classroom computer materials.

Teaching with the Census is a resource best used with lower division undergraduates. This site contains four lesson plans and handouts for reading and writing about tables produced with U.S. Census data, performing simple calculations and creating maps.

Teaching/Training Modules on Trends in Health and Aging contains "teaching modules on trends in health-related behaviors, health status, health care utilization, functional status and disability, and health care expenditures of the United States aging population based on data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics."

Instructional Datasets

DASL is the Data and Story Library of materials that can be used to ilustrate the use of basic statistics methods. Use DASL's search engine to locate a wide variety of topics from real-world examples.

StatLib is maintained at Carnegie Mellon University. The alphabetical list of datasets from published and unpublished sources is one of the original sites of this type.

STATA programs for teaching at UCLA covers univariate distributions, probability simulation, statistical distributions, regression and other techniques.

Time series data is a collection of about 800 time series drawn from many different fields including, agriculture, crime, demography, health, labor market and sports. It is compiled and maintained by Rob Hyndman.

Statistical Support

ATS provides statistical consulting at UCLA for the use of many different software packages including SPSS, SAS, STATA

Chance is a quantitative literacy course. The goal of Chance is to make students more informed, critical readers of current news stories that use probability and statistics.

GASP is an initiative designed to make statistical routines easily available via the Internet. The site contains lists of java applets for data analysis. The educational procedures are all written in Java and feature interactive graphics.

JSE is an archive of statistical data supplied by the Journal of Statistics Education. JSE disseminates knowlede for the improvement of statistics education at all levels.

Statistics Tutorials hosted at Oklahoma State, provides links to a number of online tutorials in nearly all statistical packages and many statistical techniques.

Statistics Internet Library is probably more useful to students than faculty and has many tutorials, study aids, examples, practice problems as well as low cost live online tutors.

Software Resources

HotzTran is a statistical program for model estimation and is provided free at the link.

SPSS at UCLA is supported by a number of classes, online tutorials, analysis examples, and data management.

SAS at UCLA is an online resource with tutorials, classes, examples, and links to online documentation.

SAS OnDemand for Academics " allows students to download SAS on their own computers, and perform statistical analysis at their own convenience. Users register for the service, download a SAS software application via the Web, and then perform processing by connecting to a hosted server at SAS. Instructors connect to a secure Web site to register, create or update courses and download course software for free. Students then register and download software for the created course. By secure credit card transaction, students pay a per-course fee that is approximately the price of a textbook. "

STATA at UCLA provides support to researchers with online learning modules, classes, and a special section for instructors.

SSI is a company that creates software for statistical analysis. it is included here because the web site provides free downloads of software for LISREL, Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) and Item response Theory (IRT).