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as most instructors and statistics educators are still grappling with the latest
technology to create e-learning materials.
It is acknowledged that instructors are faced with various challenges in
teaching statistics to students with no prior statistical knowledge. Students are
more comfortable with multimedia technologies and internet to assist them
to learn statistics more efficiently. Therefore, this paper will particularly focus
on the development of STATLEARN@, an electronic platform and resources in
facilitating students’ learning of Statistics for Business and Social Sciences
subject.

2. About STATLEARN@
Developing an e-learning platform that contains interesting features of
information and user-friendly interface literally involve complex process. There
are many methodologies that are different or even similar that have been
developed to help in building the e-learning management system. A
developing method is observed as a procedure or path by the developer that
proceeds from a problem of a certain class to a solution of a certain class
(Jackson, 1982).
STATLEARN@ is developed for the purpose of assisting the non-statistics
major students to enhance their understanding of statistical concepts
particularly in hypothesis testing. It is observed that many students experience
some difficulties in understanding the concept of hypothesis testing. After
taking into account how students should understand the process of
conducting hypothesis testing, an online open-source platform was created.
This include the development of e-learning contents/notes, quizzes and
tutorials which are appropriate for the hypothesis testing topics which include
2-independent sample t-test, 2-dependent sample t-test and one-way
ANOVA. However, learning statistics through the e-learning platform can be a
challenge for any students because they are used to the instructor’s face-to-
face teaching in class. The development involves the process of making
student understand what statistical concepts need to be learned and how it
can be applied to solve problems using real data. In view of this, students need
a proper guide on how to solve the statistics problem through the computer
dashboard. Hence in STATLEARN@, the learning process is enhanced through
a systematic guide where interactive contents are placed as needed by the
learners.
There are three main sections in STATLEARN@, which are notes and
formula in section 1, step by step practice questions in section 2 and test
questions in section 3. Step by step practice questions enable the students to
solve a hypothesis testing problem interactively based on the prompts given
at each step. The practice section requires students to solve the problems by
providing answer at each step correctly before he/she can proceed to the next

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