SIMPLE: A tool to aid teaching and learning of statistics

Teaching statistics is often a challenge, but perhaps never more so than when teaching the subject to social science undergraduates. Many social science students avoid the post-GCSE study and practice of quantitative skills and are surprised (and often dismayed) to discover that they play an important role in the social sciences. These students may fail to accept that quantitative skills are an essential part of their social science education, and they are likely to be frustrated in their encounters with statistical terms and concepts. Many students report that the material doesn