Developing Statistical Understanding Through Interactive Computing/Graphics

9354506布莱曼加州大学伯克利分校的这个项目几乎影响到所有低级统计课程，每年招收的学生总数超过2 000人。其目标是通过使用交互计算和图形来帮助发展统计和概率的直觉和理解。这项计划是统计处改善低科教学的下一步。低科教学始于1986年，将计算机纳入本科生课程。今年，大约有2000名低年级学生有持续的计算机作业。在NSF赠款的资助下，1993年安装了50台X-Windows终端和一台功能更强大的SUN服务器。X-Window终端允许以图形/直观的方式接触到学生。在交互式窗口环境中，可以将不同的数据视图链接在一起，并动态地说明概率概念，从而使想法变得生动。将建造20个计算机项目，与低级课程中讨论的关键概念相对应。每个项目都是一个小故事，由许多相关部分组成，这些部分将学生带入相关材料的环中。每个项目都需要学生的回应和主动性。这个项目的所有部分都以努力创造一个让学生更好地理解课堂上正在讨论的特定概念的环境为核心。这在本科统计教学中尚属首次。该系在统计领域、计算机应用和本科教学方面的领导地位将是其他大学和学院采用的课程、课程材料和方法的重要因素。***

9354506 Breiman This project, at the University of California, Berkeley, affects almost all of the lower division statistics courses, with a total yearly enrollment of over 2000 students. The goal is to assist the development of statistical and probabilistic intuition and understanding through the use of interactive computing and graphics. This project is the next step in the Statistics Department's efforts to improve lower division instruction, which began in 1986 by integrating computing into the undergraduate curriculum. This year, about 2000 lower division students have ongoing computer assignments. Funded by an NSF Grant, 50 X-Windows terminals and a more powerful SUN server were installed in 1993. The X-Window terminals allows reaching students on a graphical/intuitive level. In the interactive windowing environment, different views of data can be linked together and probabilistic concepts illustrated dynamically so that the ideas come alive. Twenty computer projects will be constructed, corresponding to key concepts discussed in lower division courses. Each project is a small story, consisting of a number of related parts that carry the student into rings of related material. Each project requires responses and initiative on the part of the students. All parts of the project have as their core the effort to create a setting to give students better understanding of the particular concept being discussed in their classes. This is a first of its kind in undergraduate statistical instruction. The leadership position of the Department in the field of statistics, in the use of computing, and in undergraduate instruction will be an important factor in the programs, course materials, and approach being adopted by other universities and colleges. ***