Interactive Undergraduate Statistical Computing Laboratory

交互式本科生统计计算实验室

• 批准号: 9650048
• 负责人: John Marden
• 金额: $ 3.81万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-05-01 至 1998-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650048&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interactive; Undergraduate; Statistical; Computing; Laboratory

The Department of Statistics is committed to the utilization of appropriate technology to increase the learning experience of students. The present initiative is aimed toward the Statistics 100 (STAT100) course, a general education course. The primary goal of STAT100 is to enhance students' capabilities as intelligent consumers of quantitative information. The essential concepts of statistics are emphasized rather than a variety of statistical techniques. The students tend to be bright but not technologically oriented, coming from more than 100 different majors. Most are freshmen or sophomores, and about two-thirds are women. The enrollment has grown rapidly in the past several years and is currently at about 400 students per semester. For several years, an innovative and extremely easy-to-use computer program, developed in the department, has been used in one-fourth to one-half of the classes to increase students' hands-on involvement with statistical data and with statistical and probabilistic experiments. This project makes possible on-line communication between students and the instructor, and among students themselves, and provides opportunities for on-line assignments, quizzes, projects, etc. In order to bring the advantages of the statistical and conferencing software to all of the sections of STAT100, the department is enhancing its undergraduate computer laboratory. Previously, there have been only eight computers that could be utilized for this project, four of which are only marginally effective. Through this latest enhancement, the number of useful PCs is being increased to 25.

统计部致力于利用适当的技术来增加学生的学习体验。目前的举措是针对统计100(STAT100)课程，这是一门普通教育课程。STAT100的主要目标是增强学生作为量化信息的智能消费者的能力。强调统计的基本概念，而不是各种统计技术。这些学生往往聪明，但并不以技术为导向，他们来自100多个不同的专业。大多数是大一或大二的学生，约三分之二是女性。在过去的几年里，招生人数迅速增长，目前每学期约有400名学生。几年来，本系开发了一个极易使用的创新计算机程序，已在四分之一到一半的班级中使用，以增加学生对统计数据以及统计和概率实验的动手参与。该项目使学生和教师之间以及学生之间的在线交流成为可能，并提供了在线作业、测验、项目等机会。为了将统计和会议软件的优势带到STAT100的所有部分，该系正在加强其本科生计算机实验室。以前，只有8台计算机可用于该项目，其中4台只能起到微不足道的作用。通过这一最新改进，有用的个人电脑数量将增加到25台。