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

项目隆起：通过有趣的教学提高学习的普遍可移植性将为大学统计教师提供课堂迷你课程和资源，包括有趣的项目，涵盖入门统计的所有主要主题，来自广泛，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、名言、歌曲、诗歌、文字游戏和视频。UPLIFT将通过将有趣的项目编入索引和注释的课堂准备形式，以及无需特殊才能即可使用的迷你课程计划，从而改变本科统计学课堂，从而消除使用障碍。隆起的材料将严格评估其对学生学习的影响，学生的焦虑和态度，往往是可怕的领域介绍统计。这将通过一种新颖的随机对照实验和对学生的支持访谈和观察来完成。UPLIFT将通过虚拟和纸质出版物、会议演示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——基于乐趣的项目正在为不同的学生群体量身定制，并在他们中进行测试，这些学生代表着美国每年80万名学习入门统计的学生。项目的合作机构是俄亥俄州立大学、德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校和乔治亚周边学院。

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.