University of Illinois Teacher Enhancement Project in Statistics Education

通过向教师介绍统计的经验方法，这一为期三年的项目将促进中学统计教学。共有150名数学、科学和计算机科学教师将参加为期三周的统计暑期讲习班和本学年的后续活动。评价将评估该项目在将统计数据引入课堂和区一级课程方面的成功。该项目建立在由伊利诺伊州资助的在职讲习班的基础上。尽管讲习班是以国际统计研究所编写的高中统计课本(附带软件)为基础的，但讲习班将使学员熟悉统计教学的各种方法。第一个暑假将有30名教师参加一个工作坊，接下来的两个暑假各有两个工作坊。五个工作坊中的每一个都将从美国的一个特定地区招聘，教师将根据学校的规模参加由2-4名高级教师组成的“团队”。每个团队还将包括一名主管或管理员，并且必须至少包含一名高级教师。学校必须同意为将统计学引入课程提供资金和其他支持。大学、参与者所在的学校和出版商分担的费用占NSF奖金的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.