Fantasy Sports Games as Cultures for Informal Learning

该项目将研究分布式的在线梦幻篮球游戏，这些游戏在许多类型的玩家中都很受欢迎，包括非正式的科学教育代表性不足的群体，并且需要一定程度的非正式统计推理和决策策略。这款游戏本身并不是在打篮球，而是扮演球队老板或教练的角色，在有限的资源下决定如何最好地组建一支球队。研究团队将提供一种方法来构建和研究专家和新手玩家的统计理解和决策，然后，基于研究，将开发脚手架技术，帮助玩家更加反思和熟练他们使用的统计知识和决策策略。

This project will research distributed, online fantasy basketball games, which are quite popular with many kinds of players, including informal science education under-represented groups, and which entail some degree of informal statistical reasoning and decision-making strategies. The game is not playing basketball per se, but taking on the role of a team owner or coach who needs to decide how best to compose a team given necessarily limited resources. The research team will provide a method for framing and researching statistical understanding and decision making of expert and novice players, then, based on the research, will develop scaffolded techniques for helping players become more reflective on and adept with the statistical knowledge and decision making strategies they use.