tracking investments as a stats assignment
One semester, I tried tracking a classroom "investment portfolio" as a means of keeping students interested in statistics. relates to data visualizations ideas of risk using standard deviation compared their own portfolio's performance to benchmark indexes such as NASDAQ, SP500, and Dow Jones introduces students to investments After looking around a bit, I decided to create an account in SigFig for each class. My Assessment of the Assignment: Overall, the assignment was interesting for most students. works best if we check in regularly to see how the class portfolio is performing compared to indices-- students got a kick out of seeing their portfolio out-perform the indices assign a reading of standard deviation as a measure of risk assign a reading about alpha and beta