#ReadyResources "TSHS Resources Portal"

On the blog, we'd like to share online resources that make our teaching lives easier. Of course, the first resource we want to share is our own TSHS Resources Portal.

The mission of the TSHS Resources Portal is to promote excellence in the teaching of statistics in the health sciences through the dissemination of peer-reviewed health sciences-related datasets and teaching materials that are centrally archived in a public domain with an easy-to-navigate website.

There are now ten peer-reviewed health-sciences related datasets on the TSHS Resources Portal. Each dataset is available in six formats including R, SAS and SPSS, and is accompanied by a thorough introduction sheet and a data dictionary.

Links for the original publication are also included so students can read the research and attempt to recreate figures, tables, and analyses. It is fun to watch the excitement as learners replicate a graph from the medical literature... and then take their new-found confidence and ask more questions of the data.

Please check out the site if you haven’t already. Use it often. Recommend it to your colleagues and students. Make plans to contribute data or teaching materials. That's right, when you use a Portal dataset in your own teaching, you can share your teaching materials (assignments, learning activities, projects, assessments, etc.) with your colleagues via the Portal. All contributions are peer-reviewed by the Portal editorial board. Credit is given to the author on the Portal so that the material can be cited as a peer reviewed contribution to science. More information about contributing to the TSHS Portal can be found here.

What is your favorite dataset in the TSHS Resources Portal? Please share in the comments below.

Do you have a question about the portal? Please contact Ann Brearley.

Do you have another resource we should share with the TSHS community? Drop a line to the newsletter editor.