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

项目UPLIFT：通过有趣的教学增加学习的通用便携性将为大学统计教师提供引人入胜的课堂迷你课程和由有趣项目组成的资源，涵盖了入门统计的所有主要主题，来自广泛的，广泛访问的CAUSEweb.org数字图书馆。有趣的项目包括许多形式，包括漫画，笑话，报价，歌曲，诗歌，文字游戏和视频。UPLIFT将通过将有趣的项目放入索引良好和注释的课堂准备形式，并在不需要特殊才能的情况下使用迷你课程计划，从而消除使用障碍，从而改变本科生的统计课堂。UPLIFT材料将严格评估其对学生学习和学生焦虑的影响以及对入门统计领域的态度。 这将使用一个新的随机对照实验，并支持采访和学生的观察。UPLIFT将通过虚拟和纸质出版物、会议介绍以及一般和定制的网络研讨会传播方法和结果。UPLIFT的影响将是广泛的-这些有趣的项目正在为代表美国每年80万名学生的不同学生群体量身定制和测试。UPLIFT项目的合作机构是俄亥俄州州立大学、德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校和格鲁吉亚周边学院。

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.