University of Illinois Teacher Enhancement Project in Statistics Education

这个为期三年的项目将向教师介绍统计的实证方法，以促进初中和中学的统计教学。共有150名数学、科学和计算机科学教师将参加为期三周的夏季统计讲习班和本学年的后续活动。评价将评估该项目在课堂和地区一级将统计纳入课程方面的成功情况。该项目建立在由伊利诺伊州资助的在职讲习班的基础上。虽然基于PI编写的高中水平统计文本（附带软件），但讲习班将使参与者熟悉统计学教学的各种方法。第一个夏天将有一个30名教师参加的研讨会，接下来的两个夏天各有两个。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名优秀教师组成的“团队”。每个小组还将包括一名主管或管理员，并且必须至少包括一名高级教师。学校必须同意为将统计学引入课程提供资金和其他支持。由大学、参与者所在学院和出版商分摊的费用占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.