Constructing Data, Modeling Worlds: Collaborative Investigation of Statistical Reasoning

该项目有两个总的主题：1）开发一种新的教育研究方法，他们称之为合作; 2）对中学生进行统计推理研究。 这项工作旨在将统计学的教学和学习概念化为一种数据建模形式。 它将对专业人员使用的统计做法进行研究，然后对小学高年级和初中年级的学生进行课堂研究。 研究人员打算开发新的形成性和总结性评估的学生学习统计推理，并与参与教师建立伙伴关系，并开发材料。他们将在准实验设计中进行统计咨询的比较案例研究，选择客户领域和当地工作实践作为分析中的自变量，并将统计程序背后的概念的一般性作为因变量。

This project have two general themes: 1) develop a new method of doing research in education which they refer to as collaboration and 2) conduct research statistical reasoning amount middle school students. The effort intends to conceptualize teaching and learning of statistics as a form of data modeling. It will conduct studies of statistical practices as used by professionals and then carry out classroom studies of students at late elementary and middle grades. The investigators intend to develop new formative and summative assessments of student learning in statistical reasoning and establish partnerships with participating teachers and develop materials. They will do comparative case studies of statistical consulting in a quasi-experimental design where client domains and local work practices are selected to serve as independent variables in the analysis, and the achieved generality of concepts that lie behind statistical procedures serves as the dependent variable.