Welcome to the faculty page of
Andy Oswald
(Andy and the Chorus of
Happy Statistics Students)
I am an Adjunct Psychology
Instructor
for Lone
(In real life I work for Sam Houston State
University’s College of Education.)
Please note that during Lone Star College’s
name change process, email addresses, web site addresses may change. Stay tuned and be flexible!
Email me at: andy at lonestar dot edu (for
now) however, for a quicker response use
My SHSU email address: andy at shsu dot edu
8-5, M-F
Call
me in my SHSU office at: 936-294-4891
Snail mail me at:
Andrew
Oswald
College of Education
Sam Houston State University
Box 2119
Huntsville, TX 77340
United States of
America
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Disclaimer: This page will be under construction
until Mephistopheles doesn’t need ice to keep his daiquiri cold.
WHAT I AM TEACHING
Click
on a section for syllabus - future
sections will be added as I can.
Spring
2008
08/SP PSYC 2317 42001
Basic Statistics
Wednesdays
6:00 PM to 8:45 PM, Montgomery
College
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Text Book used (until I hear otherwise): Witte and Witte, Statistics, 8th
Edition.
Follow this link to the Wiley Publisher’s Student Companion Site
for the Witte and Witte text (click on the book!)
The study guide is from an earlier addition and is optional.
Required reading for my statistics class: Huff, How to lie
with statistics (1954).
This book is available from the NHMCCD Library, Harris County Libraries, Montgomery County Libraries,
Amazon, Barnes and Noble, eBay, and other places. Older editions may have a different cover.
I have placed 5 copies of this book on reserve with the
Montgomery College
Library. You may check one out for a
week at a time.
Statistics
Review Materials as I can get them posted.
My 2007
ABOUT
ME
Education:
Our Lady of the
Employment:
Middle School
Teacher (1987 – 1993)
College Math Tutor
(1993 – 1998)
College
Developmental Math and Computer Science Adjunct Faculty (1993 – Present)
College Academic
Advisor (1998 – 2000)
College District
Information Technology Trainer and Systems Analyst (2000 – Present)
College Psychology
Adjunct Faculty (2002 – Present)
Fire Service:
Klein Volunteer
Fire Department (1993 – 1996)
Cy-Fair Volunteer
Fire Department (1996 – 2005)
Texas Firemen’s and
Fire Marshall’s Association – Level II Instructor (2001)
Texas Firemen’s
and Fire Marshall’s Association – Basic Firefighter Certification (2000)
Works:
HAZ-MAT Jeopardy
(a set PowerPoints ) Click here for information!
Happy Birthday to
Both of Us (a short story*) © 1999-2002
Click here to read
it!
ACADEMIC AND USEFUL LINKS
NHMCCD (my employer – links to the five colleges)
NHMCCD College Library (open the door to
online journals and gobs of reference materials … from home!)
NHMCCD MyRecords
(online web resources for students, faculty and staff including course
evaluation and finding your grades)
NHMCCD Cruiser (email and
portal for students and faculty – all students have a Campus Cruiser email
address)
Montgomery
College Psychology Club (by far the coolest… who else would do a Phobia
House for Halloween??)
Montgomery College Counselors
(great people with great ears and ideas!)
APA Research Paper Guidelines
(good info for psychology students who are turning in research papers)
American Psychological Association (the official
website)
PSI Café (a neat look at
psychology!)
Rice University’s Virtual Lab in
Statistics (enrichment for some statistical concepts)
TheBestStatistics.Info (a nice
site with some built in statistical calculators including hypothesis tests –
very cool!)
A Nice Collection of
Statistics Quotes (and other subjects… very entertaining!)
AltaVista (the most excellent search engine -
especially for online ‘technical’ info… otherwise use… )
Google (for sheer volume!)
Wikipedia (my trusted source of
information)
Intellicast
for The Woodlands and Conroe (Intellicast is so much better than
weather.com, see for yourself)
Real-Time Traffic Map from Houston
Transtar (just another fine contribution by Aggies)
National Public Radio (excellent radio news and
features, but know this: NPR leans to the left)
KUHF (your local source for NPR, Car Talk, Wait
Wait Don’t Tell Me, and the best classical music)
Fox News (want your news tilted to the
right?)
Christian Science Monitor
(maybe the most centered news org out there!)
Houston Chronicle (local news, our only choice
since they bought the Post out… too bad)
Cy-Fair High School (alma
mater I)
Texas A&M University (alma mater II)
Our Lady of the Lake University (alma mater
III)
How Computers Really Work (a little
volume will help during the tutorial)
JUST FOR FUN
(The Just for Fun links are coming soon …
maybe sometime this decade… yeah right.)
Photo Gallery Works
Music Movies
Marksmanship & Hunting Scottish Heritage Family & Friends
Aquaria
Automobiles Home
Entertainment Politics
Food & Drink Computers & Technology
My current addiction is THE online version of “42” –
The National Game of Texas for over 100
years!
Family oriented, but the pros play here –
very humbling.
The Priest,
Executioner, and The Undertaker
(a 3 for the price of 1 deal)
At the 2006
The jury is still out as
to whether or not this
“Screaming Guy” is upset
about something.
My friend Chris drew him
for me. I own the copyrighted so don’t steal it.
He’s really an excellent
artist, and usually for hire.
Email me and I’ll get you
some contact information.
Last
Updated on January 11, 2008
FIN