Syllabus
Science Prerequisites for Health Professionals
MATH 1005: Statistics for the Health Professions | Spring 2018
Credits - 4
Description
Course description
Statistics for the Health Professions is designed for students entering a medical profession that requires a prerequisite statistics course. The four-credit hour, one-semester course can be taken by anyone with Internet access from anywhere in the world.
This course contains the same major subject and content areas as a traditional statistics course: descriptive statistics, probability, inferential statistics, and linear regression. It differs from most traditional statistics courses because one emphasis is relevance to the medical professions. A substantial number of human health examples are included to demonstrate the relevance of statistics to health and disease.
Many of the students taking this course will have an undergraduate degree and will be in the process of a career change. Many will be aspiring to become a DPT, Pharmacist, Optometrist, CRNA, PA, Genetic Counselor, or some other health professional.
Every day the professor will have either an email or phone office hour. Communication with the professor is strongly encouraged.
Prerequisite(s)
None
For general course information, such as registration, questions regarding financial aid, etc. please contact an OWL Enrollment Consultant at 1-855-325-0894 or prehealthadmissions@une.edu. Most of your questions may be answered in our FAQs at http://online.une.edu/science-prerequisites/faq/
Instructor and Support Contact Information
Check the course welcome page in Blackboard for specific instructor and support specialist contact information.
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Study Lounge
The Study Lounge Discussion Board is a designated support forum in which students may engage with each other and grapple with course content. Feel free to post questions, seek clarification, and support each other, but be mindful of UNE’s Academic Integrity Policy.
Your instructor will monitor this forum. However, if you are seeking specific and timely answers to questions about content-matter or your personal grades, please contact your instructor via course messages. For questions about course materials, program policy, and how to navigate and proceed through the course, please contact your Student Support Specialist through the course messaging system.
Materials
Learning Objectives and Outcomes
Course Goals and Objectives
To give the student interested in the health professions an introduction to Statistics. This course contains the same major subject and content areas as a traditional Statistics course: descriptive statistics, probability, inferential statistics, and linear regression. It differs from most traditional statistics courses because one emphasis is relevance to the medical professions. A substantial number of human health examples are included to demonstrate the relevance of statistics to health and disease. The major subjects are descriptive statistics, probability, inferential statistic, and linear regression. Specifically, we will cover chapters with the following titles:
- Statistics and How they are Used
- Populations and Samples
- Organizing and Displaying Data
- Summarizing Data (measures of center and variation)
- Probability
- The Normal Distribution
- Sampling Distribution of Means and Estimation
- One-Sample Significance Testing, Point Estimates, and Confidence Intervals
- Two-Sample Significance Testing, Point Estimates, and Confidence Intervals
- ANOVA tests
- Inferences Regarding Proportions
- The Chi-Square Test, and
- Correlation and Linear Regression.
Students will use the statistical software SPSS. All course topics above will first be learned and implemented without SPSS, and then will be applied to large data sets with the use of SPSS.
SELF PACED DESIGN
On the course start date, students will have access to orientation. This must be completed to be able to gain access to the first module in the course. Students must complete the first module to gain access to the next one. We recommend that students spend about 15 hours per week to complete a course in 16 weeks. When trying to complete the course in less than 16 weeks, we typically see students do this successfully within 12-14 weeks. Instructors will be timely in grading and feedback, but it will not be instant.
Assignments
Course Format
For each chapter you will:
- watch the lectures and complete the lecture outlines,
- complete homework problems and check your answers, and
- complete the online quiz.
Regular contact with your professor is strongly encouraged!
This course is designed to take 16 weeks to complete. A detailed “16 Week Timeline” is on Blackboard so that you can stay on track.
Homework
Although homework is not graded, it is the most important part of the course. You should work all homework problems, check your answers, and contact the instructor with questions.
Chapter Quizzes
After completing the homework for each chapter you will take an online quiz. After you take each quiz, you will see the correct solutions. You may take each quiz up to five times. For each quiz, your grade will be the average of all attempts. There is a 90 minute time limit on the quizzes, and they are open book.
Exams
There will be two chapter exams. Exam 1 will cover Chapters 1-6, and Exam 2 will cover Chapters 7-9 and 11-13. You may take each exam as often as you like, but your grade is based on your first attempt. There is a two-hour time limit on exams and they are open book. Access to the Internet or communication devices is not allowed during the exam.
Final Exam
This exam is proctored. It is open book and open notes. It covers all material in the course, except the SPSS content. To prepare for it, study homework problems, chapter quizzes, and the two exams. There is a 4 hour time limit and it is open book. Access to the Internet or communication devices is not allowed during the exam.
SPSS Exam
This exam is not proctored. It is open book and open notes. It covers the SPSS content of the course.
Procedures for Arranging Required Proctoring of the Final Exam
All quizzes, chapter exams, and the final will be open book and open notes. Quizzes and chapter exams will be taken on-line. The final exam will also be taken on-line, and will be a proctored exam.
Online Final Exam
The University of New England has contracted with ProctorU.com to provide students in MATH 1005 the most convenient, at home, on-line exam proctoring system. This system provides a simple, no cost to the student, secure, on-line proctor for the final exam. Please see system requirements to ensure you have the necessary computer setup to use ProctorU. Upon enrollment into MATH-1005 students will register with ProctorU and establish a login name and password. This will give you access to all of ProctorU’s services. When ready, students will schedule their exams with ProctorU one week prior to taking that exam. Upon the exam day and hour, students will log in to ProctorU and click on “exams”. Following the procedures outlined at ProctorU’s web site, the student will log in to Blackboard, open the appropriate exam and the proctor will then allow student access to that exam.
Grading Policy
Your grade in this course will be determined by the following criteria:
Grade Breakdown
| Homework | 0 explicit points |
| Chapter Quizzes (20 points each) | 260 points |
| Exam 1 | 100 points |
| Exam 2 | 100 points |
| Final Exam (must be proctored) | 400 points |
| SPSS Exam (not proctored) | 180 points |
| TOTAL | 1040 points |
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Grade |
Grade Point |
Grade Point Average |
Course Points |
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A |
94-100 |
4 |
979-1040 |
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A- |
90-93 |
3.75 |
936-978 |
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B+ |
87-89 |
3.5 |
905-935 |
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B |
84-86 |
3 |
874-904 |
|
B- |
80-83 |
2.75 |
832-873 |
|
C+ |
77-79 |
2.5 |
801-831 |
|
C |
74-76 |
2 |
770-800 |
|
C- |
70-73 |
1.75 |
728-769 |
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D |
64-69 |
1 |
666-727 |
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F |
00-63 |
0 |
<= 665 |
Schedule
Suggested 16-Week Timeline
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Week |
Goals |
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Getting Started |
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1 |
Chapters 1-3
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2 |
Chapter 4
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3 |
Chapter 5
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4 |
Chapter 6
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End of 4 |
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5 |
Chapter 7 – Part 1
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6 |
Chapter 7 – Part 2
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7 |
Chapter 8
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8 |
Chapter 9
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9 |
Chapter 11
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10 |
Chapter 12
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11 |
Chapter 13
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12 |
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13 |
Final Exam (must be proctored by proctorU)
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14 |
Learn to use SPSS
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15 |
Chapter 10
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16 |
Final SPSS Exam (NOT proctored)
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End of course |
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Student Resources
Online Student Support
Your Student Support Specialist is a resource for you - they will monitor course progression and provide assistance or guidance when needed. Please don’t hesitate to contact them for assistance, including, but not limited to course planning, course materials, billing, current problems or issues in a course, technology concerns, or personal emergencies.
Questions? Visit the Student Support Science Prerequisites page
Instructor and Support Contact Information
Check Brightspace for specific instructor and support specialist contact information.
Student Lounge
The Student Lounge Discussion Board is a designated support forum in which students may engage with each other and grapple with course content. Feel free to post questions, seek clarification, and support each other, but be mindful of UNE's Academic Integrity Policy.
Your instructor will monitor this forum. However, if you are seeking specific and timely answers to questions about course content or your personal grades, please contact your instructor via course messages. For questions about course materials, program policy, and how to navigate and proceed through the course, please contact your Student Service Advisor through the Student Portal.
Accommodations
Any student who would like to request, or ask any questions regarding, academic adjustments or accommodations must contact the Student Access Center at (207) 221-4438 or pcstudentaccess@une.edu. Student Access Center staff will evaluate the student's documentation and determine eligibility of accommodation(s) through the Student Access Center registration procedure.
Policies
Proctored Examinations
The University of New England has contracted with ProctorU to provide students with the most convenient online exam proctoring system. This system provides a simple, no cost to the student, secure, online proctor for exams and allows the student to take all the exams at home and on their own schedule.
Upon enrollment into the course, each student will register with ProctorU and establish a login name and password. This will give the student access to all of ProctorU's services. When ready, students will schedule each of their proctored exams with ProctorU. Exams must be scheduled at least 72 hours in advance to avoid fees. Prior to taking their exams, students must be sure that they have downloaded the ProctorU Chrome or Firefox extension and are using the most current version of Chrome or Firefox. They must also be sure their testing site's connection meets the minimum requirements by using ProctorU's "Test It Out" utility.
Upon the exam day and hour, students will log in to ProctorU and click on "exams". After following the procedures outlined at ProctorU's web site, the student will log in to Brightspace and locate their correct exam. The proctor will then allow student access to that exam.
Students must use ProctorU and must follow all proctoring requirements for their exams to be credited.
Proctored exams are not available for review at any time. You will not be able to see the questions, nor the answers you've given, after completing the exams. Please contact your instructor for specific feedback.
Course Discussions
Discussion board assignments cover interesting current events or materials related to this course that contribute to a deeper understanding of key concepts and allow you to interact with your classmates and the instructor. Each assignment may require you to conduct internet research, read additional materials (a short journal or magazine article), visit a specific webpage, AND/OR view a short video prior to writing a response following the specific guidelines in the assignment.
To earn full credit: you will need to post a response to the discussion topic, respond to the original posts of at least two other students, and then contribute meaningfully to an ongoing discussion. You will need to post your initial response before you will see any posts from your classmates. Please keep in mind that only this initial response is included in your assignment grade, so make sure you have followed all of the guidelines and written a complete response prior to submitting the post. For special cases where one or two students are accelerating faster through the course, the instructor will participate in the discussion so that everyone has the opportunity to interact.
Please see Brightspace for a full description, along with specific guidelines, for each assignment. Discussion board assignments should be completed, along with all other assignments in the course, in the order that they appear. Due to the course design, you may be unable to take a proctored exam if you do not complete all assignments that appear prior to that exam.
Please also refer to the Grading Policy/Grade Breakdown section of the syllabus to learn the percentage of your grade that each discussion board assignment is worth.
Technology Requirements
Please review the technical requirements for UNE Online Programs: Technical Requirements
Course Length
A schedule of lectures and assignments is included in this syllabus. This is, however a self-paced course and you can complete the course in less time.
- Courses in the SPHP program are equivalent to one-semester courses designed to be completed in 16 weeks
- Enrollment in the course begins the day your section opens which is listed in the Academic Calendar found on the Student Success Portal.
- Course start and end dates are in respect to Eastern Time.
Withdrawal and Refund Policies
Please visit the enrollment page to review the withdrawal and refund policies.
Grade Policy
Students are expected to attempt and complete all graded assignments and proctored exams by the end date of the course. View the incomplete grade policy..
Transcripts
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- Log into uonline at http://uonline.une.edu
- Select Student Services
- Select Student Records
- Select Academic Transcript
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Please review your Unofficial Transcript prior to requesting an Official Transcript.
- Log into uonline at http://uonline.une.edu
- Select Student Services
- Select Student Records
- Select Request Printed/Official Transcript
- Follow the prompts
After you click Submit Request, your official transcript will be put into the queue to be printed in the Registrar's Office.
Academic Integrity
The University of New England values academic integrity in all aspects of the educational experience. Academic dishonesty in any form undermines this standard and devalues the original contributions of others. It is the responsibility of all members of the University community to actively uphold the integrity of the academy; failure to act, for any reason, is not acceptable.
Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Cheating, copying, or the offering or receiving of unauthorized assistance or information.
- Fabrication or falsification of data, results, or sources for papers or reports.
- Action which destroys or alters the work of another student.
- Multiple submission of the same paper or report for assignments in more than one course without permission of each instructor.
- Plagiarism, the appropriation of records, research, materials, ideas, or the language of other persons or writers and the submission of them as one's own.
Charges of academic dishonesty will be reviewed by the Program Director. Penalties for students found responsible for violations may depend upon the seriousness and circumstances of the violation, the degree of premeditation involved, and/or the student’s previous record of violations. Appeal of a decision may be made to the Dean whose decision will be final. Student appeals will take place through the grievance process outlined in the student handbook.