This paper is from Session 4G: Professional Development Programs
which comes under Topic 4: Improving teaching and capacity in statistics education
Paper 4G1 (Monday 9th, 16:00-17:30)
Evaluating the quality of the Master’s Program in Statistics: a study of the curriculum effect on the quality of students' master theses
Presenter
- Tatjana von Rosen (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Abstract
In 2012, the Swedish Higher Education Authority evaluated the quality of the Master's Program in Statistics with a main focus on the students' master theses. In this work, the course outcomes of all master students (N=55) registered at the Stockholm University, between 2012 and 2017, were used to investigate whether a particular practice at the department that can be characterized by program syllabus, supervision, teachers' expertise, is associated with the quality of master theses, or the quality has been mostly affected by student related characteristics. The obtained results showed significant effect of the course results in Inference, Statistical Computations and Multivariate Analysis. No significant effects of student’s gender and age have been found however the supervisor’s effect turned to be significant.