Collaborative Research: Project UPLIFT (Universal Portability of Learning Increased by Fun Teaching)

项目提升：通过有趣的教学增加学习的普遍可携带性将从广泛的、被广泛访问的CAUSEweb.org数字图书馆向大学统计教师提供由有趣的项目组成的课堂迷你课程和资源，涵盖所有主要的入门统计主题。这些有趣的项目包括许多形式，包括卡通、笑话、语录、歌曲、诗歌、文字游戏和视频。Uplift将改变本科生统计课堂，将有趣的项目放入索引和注释良好的课堂准备形式，并提供小型教案供其使用，而不需要特殊人才-从而消除了感知到的使用障碍。将严格评估提升材料对学生学习和学生焦虑的影响，以及对经常令人畏惧的介绍性统计领域的态度。这将通过一种新颖的随机对照实验来完成，并支持对学生的采访和观察。Uplift将通过虚拟出版物和纸质出版物、会议报告以及一般和定制的网络研讨会来传播方法和成果。Uplift的影响将是广泛的--这些以乐趣为基础的项目正在为不同的学生群体量身定做，并在代表着美国每年进行介绍性统计的80万名学生中进行测试。项目提升合作机构有俄亥俄州立大学、德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校和佐治亚州周长学院。

Project UPLIFT: Universal Portability of Learning Increased by Fun Teaching will offer college statistics teachers engaging classroom mini-lessons and resources consisting of fun items, spanning all main topics of introductory statistics, from the extensive, widely-visited CAUSEweb.org digital library. The fun items encompass many modalities, including cartoons, jokes, quotes, songs, poems, wordplay, and videos. UPLIFT will transform the undergraduate statistics classroom by putting fun items into well-indexed and annotated classroom-ready form with mini lesson plans for their use without requiring special talent - thus removing perceived barriers to use. UPLIFT materials will be assessed rigorously for their impact on student learning and student anxiety and attitudes towards the often-dreaded realm of introductory statistics. This will be done using a novel randomized controlled experiment and supporting interviews and observations of students. UPLIFT will disseminate methods and results through virtual and paper publications, conference presentations, and both general and customized webinars. UPLIFT's impact will be broad -- the fun-based items are being tailored for, and tested in, diverse populations of students representative of the 800,000 students taking introductory statistics each year in the United States. Project UPLIFT collaborating institutions are Ohio State University, University of Texas at El Paso, and Georgia Perimeter College.