The Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics

统计学中的许多概念是抽象的，很难教，特别是对非科学专业的学生。统计虚拟实验室的目标是开发实验室材料，促进以学生为中心的统计实践学习，从而增加学生对统计概念的理解以及学习统计的动机。重点是在社会科学中具有重要应用的主题；特别注意与实验数据分析有关的技术和探索性图形工具的使用。拟议的实验室提供了一套综合的材料和活动，用于本科水平的统计学课程。材料包括(a)案例研究，包括来自真实实验的数据，(b)重要统计概念的交互式计算机模拟，(c)与案例研究和模拟相关的统计问题的详细讨论和解释，以及(d)学生可以进行的一组统计实验，以发现重要的统计关系和原理。还开发了一个工具包，允许教师设计自己的模拟。＊

Many concepts in statistics are abstract and difficult to teach, especially to non-science-majors. The goal of the Virtual Lab in Statistics is to develop laboratory materials that promote hands-on student-centered learning of statistics and, as a result, increase students' understanding of concepts in statistics as well as their motivation for learning statistics. The emphasis is on topics that have important applications in the social sciences; special attention is paid to techniques pertaining to the analysis of data from experiments and to the use of exploratory graphical tools. The proposed laboratory provides an integrated set of materials and activities for use in undergraduate-level statistics classes. The materials consist of (a) case studies that include data from real experiments, (b) interactive computer simulations of important statistical concepts, (c) detailed discussions and explanations of statistical issues related to the case studies and the simulations, and (d) a set of statistical experiments that students can undertake to discover important statistical relationships and principles. A tool kit allowing instructors to design their own simulations has also been developed. *