*Lecturer, Management Department, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
**Guerry Professor of Management, Management Department, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Online published on 11 April, 2014.
In this study, we show that using control charting techniques to monitor students’ grades in a statistics course has advantages to both students and instructors. Students gain an understanding of some basic concepts taught in the course by using a statistical tool to monitor their grades. In addition, students write a plan of action for improvement if there is statistical evidence of a decline in their grades. The instructor can introduce various types of variation in a data set and has a chance to introduce control charts used in industry that are usually not addressed in an elementary statistics course.
Control Charting, Performance Evaluation, Grade Monitoring
