The Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics

莱斯统计虚拟实验室

• 批准号: 9751307
• 负责人: David Lane
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9751307&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rice; Virtual; Lab; Statistics

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. *

统计学中的许多概念都很抽象且难以教授，尤其是对于非科学专业的学生。 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，从而提高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；特别关注与实验数据分析和探索性图形工具的使用有关的技术。 拟议的实验室提供一套综合的材料和活动，供本科生统计课程使用。 这些材料包括（a）案例研究，其中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。 *