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Journal of Statistics Education, Volume 18, Number 3 (2010) Learning Statistics at the Farmers Market? A Comparison of Academic Service Learning and Case Studies in an Introductory Statistics Course Bridget Hiedemann Stacey M. Jones Seattle University Journal of Statistics Education Volume 18, Number 3 (2010), www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v18n3/hiedemann.pdf Copyright 2010 by Bridget Hiedemann and Stacey M. Jones all rights reserved. This text may be freely shared among individuals, but it may not be republished in any medium without express written consent from the authors and advance notification of the editor. Key Words: Business statistics; Experiential learning; Community; Attitudes. Abstract We compare the effectiveness of academic service learning to that of case studies in an undergraduate introductory business statistics course. Students in six sections of the course were assigned either an academic service learning project (ASL) or business case studies (CS). We examine two learning outcomes: students' performance on the final exam and their perceptions of the relevance of statistics for their professional development. We find no statistically significant difference between ASL and CS students with regard to final examination performance, but students who participated in the ASL project as opposed to CS were less likely to agree that [they] will have no application for statistics in [their] profession[s]. The estimated relationship is both large and statistically significant (p