University of Illinois Teacher Enhancement Project in Statistics Education

通过向教师介绍统计学的实证方法， 一项为期三年的计划将促进中学统计教学 和中学。 共有150名数学，科学， 和计算机科学将参加为期三周的夏季研讨会， 在本学年的统计和后续活动中。 评价将评估该项目在采用统计方面是否成功 纳入课堂和地区一级的课程。 该项目是在由联合国资助的在职讲习班的基础上开展的。 伊利诺伊州。 虽然根据高中水平的统计数据， 由PI编写的文本（附带软件）， 讲习班将使与会者熟悉各种方法， 统计学的教学。 将为30名教师举办一次讲习班 在第一个夏天，在接下来的两个夏天里，每年都有两个。 每个 五个讲习班中的一个将从联合国的一个特定区域征聘人员， 美国，教师将参加“团队”的2-4个上级 教师，根据学校的规模。 每支队伍还将 包括主管或管理员，且必须至少包含一个 资深教师。 学校必须同意提供资金和其他 支持将统计纳入课程。 由大学分摊费用，参与人 学校和出版商占NSF奖项的32%。

By introducing teachers to an empirical approach to statistics, this three-year project will facilitate the teaching of statistics in middle and secondary schools. A total of 150 teachers of mathematics, science, and computer science will participate in a three-week summer workshop in statistics and in follow-up activities during the academic year. Evaluation will assess the project's success in introducing statistics into the curriculum at the classroom and the district level. The project builds upon inservice workshops that were funded by the State of Illinois. Although based upon a high-school level statistics text (with accompanying software) that was written by the PI's, the workshops will familiarize participants with a variety of approaches to the teaching of statistics. There will be one workshop for 30 teachers in the first summer and two in each of the following two summers. Each of the five workshops will recruit from a particular region of the United States, and teachers will participate in "teams" of 2-4 superior teachers, depending on the size of the school. Each team will also include a supervisor or administrator, and must contain at least one senior teacher. The schools must agree to provide funds and other support for introducing statistics into the curriculum. Cost-sharing contributed by the university, the participants' schools, and the publisher amounts to 32% of the NSF award.