National Statistics Teaching Practice Survey: Planning and on-line logistics

评估/研究(91)本项目是开发和试行国家统计教学实践调查的合作努力的组成部分之一，该调查以统计教学清单为基础，作为已完成的国家统计基金会资助的艺术家项目(DUE-0206571)的一部分。这一构成部分正在创建在线管理调查的机制，创建一个数据库和报告结构，并为国家向具有代表性的教师群体管理这一工具做准备。明尼苏达大学的一个SISTER项目(国家统计教学实践调查：仪器开发)正在开发、评估和完善调查工具，并与其他STEM学科的研究人员合作，使该项目与其他领域的类似努力保持一致。该仪器将用于收集和审查多个时间点的一些试点数据，包括预期发生变化的环境(例如，在评估最佳做法讲习班学员的教学变化方面)。这两个项目正在共同为后续工作铺平道路，以便收集STEM本科课程教学的纵向数据，以便跟踪随时间的变化，并衡量教学与基于数据的建议的一致性，以改进教学方法和材料。这两个相互关联的项目正在创建和实施一个新的在线研究工具，以收集统计课程教学的重要数据。然后，该工具可用于研究教学实践与学生学习的关系、教学实践与公认的最佳实践指导方针的一致性、教学实践随时间的变化，以及在专业发展讲习班之后不断变化的教学实践。这一试点项目有可能成为其他STEM学科类似工具和数据收集的起点和模式。

Assessment/Research (91)This project is one component of a collaborative effort to develop and pilot the National Statistics Teaching Practice Survey (NSTPS), which is based on the Statistics Teaching Inventory, designed as part of the completed NSF-funded ARTIST project (DUE- 0206571). This component is creating the mechanism for administering the survey online, creating a database and reporting structure, and make preparations for the national administration of the instrument to a representative group of teachers. A sister project (National Statistics Teaching Practice Survey: Instrument development) based at the University of Minnesota is developing, evaluating, and refining the survey instrument and working with researchers from other STEM disciplines to align this project with similar efforts in other fields. That instrument is to be used to gather and examine some pilot data over multiple time points, including settings where change is anticipated (e.g. in gauging instructional changes for participants in a best practices workshop). Together these two projects are preparing the way for follow on work to gather longitudinal data on the teaching of STEM undergraduate courses in order to track changes over time and measure the alignment of teaching with data-based recommendations for improvement in teaching methods and materials.These two connected projects are creating and implementing online a new research tool to gather important data on the teaching of statistics courses. The instrument can then be used to study the relationship of teaching practices with student learning, the alignment of teaching practice with recognized best practice guidelines, national changes in teaching practice over time, and changing teaching practices following professional development workshops. This pilot project has the potential to serve as a starting point and model for similar instruments and data collection in other STEM disciplines.