Authentic, Career-Based, Discovery Learning Projects in Introductory Statistics

真实的、基于职业的、发现性的统计学入门学习项目

• 批准号: 0633264
• 负责人: Robb Sinn
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of North Georgia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0633264&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Authentic; Career; Based; Discovery; Learning

Mathematical Sciences (21) This initiative is working to improve achievement and to change attitudes for students who take a first statistics course in either high school or college. The project uses a model for learning in statistics which suggests that career-specific discovery learning will enhance outcomes for students. Supplementary materials are being developed to streamline classroom implementation of the model. These include a faculty guidebook to help design discovery-learning projects and a workbook of introductory level problems from specific majors. Project objectives include: (1) development of the model, (2) development of the supplementary materials, (3) evaluation of pilot test results, and (4) dissemination of results and materials. The project materials and the evaluation instruments are being developed first and then they are being validated in a pre-pilot test. Next, a treatment vs. control design is utilized during the full pilot phase to test the model, with pilot sites including a two-year college, a high school, and four-year college classes. Dissemination includes journal article(s), several presentations at professional meetings, and two large-scale workshops.The broader impact of this project enhances learning outcomes in and attitudes toward statistics. The course design connects authentic, statistics-based inquiry to specific career interests and facilitates transference of mathematics concepts. The students are not, in general, science majors in college, but they need and use statistics and include many high school students. The initiative fosters collaboration between mathematics and other departments, especially those in the social and behavioral sciences, business, education and health sciences.

数学科学 (21) 该计划致力于提高在高中或大学学习第一门统计课程的学生的成绩并改变他们的态度。该项目使用统计学习模型，该模型表明针对特定职业的发现学习将提高学生的成果。正在开发补充材料，以简化该模型的课堂实施。其中包括帮助设计发现学习项目的教师指南和特定专业的入门级问题的工作簿。项目目标包括：(1) 开发模型，(2) 开发补充材料，(3) 评估试点测试结果，(4) 传播结果和材料。首先正在开发项目材料和评估工具，然后在预试点测试中对其进行验证。接下来，在整个试点阶段采用治疗与对照设计来测试该模型，试点地点包括两年制大学、高中和四年制大学课程。传播内容包括期刊文章、专业会议上的多次演讲以及两次大型研讨会。该项目的更广泛影响提高了统计学的学习成果和态度。课程设计将真实的、基于统计的探究与特定的职业兴趣联系起来，并促进数学概念的迁移。一般来说，这些学生不是大学理科专业的学生，​​但他们需要并使用统计数据，其中包括许多高中生。该倡议促进了数学与其他部门之间的合作，特别是社会和行为科学、商业、教育和健康科学领域的合作。