Developing Statistical Understanding Through Interactive Computing/Graphics

9354506 Breiman这个项目，在加州大学伯克利分校，影响几乎所有的低年级统计课程，每年总招生超过2000名学生。目标是通过使用交互式计算和图形来帮助发展统计和概率直觉和理解。 该项目是统计部努力改善低年级教学的下一步，该项目始于1986年，将计算纳入本科课程。今年，大约有2000名低年级学生正在进行计算机作业。 在NSF赠款的资助下，1993年安装了50台X-Windows终端和一台功能更强大的SUN服务器。X-Window终端允许在图形/直观的层面上接触学生。在交互式窗口环境中，不同的数据视图可以链接在一起，并动态地说明概率概念，以便这些想法变得生动。 将构建20个计算机项目，对应于低年级课程中讨论的关键概念。每个项目都是一个小故事，由一些相关的部分组成，将学生带入相关材料的环中。每个项目都需要学生的积极性和主动性。该项目的所有部分都以创造一个环境为核心，让学生更好地理解课堂上讨论的特定概念。 这是本科统计教学中的第一次。 该部门在统计领域的领导地位，在计算的使用，并在本科教学将是一个重要的因素，在程序，课程材料，并通过其他大学和学院的方法。 ***

9354506 Breiman This project, at the University of California, Berkeley, affects almost all of the lower division statistics courses, with a total yearly enrollment of over 2000 students. The goal is to assist the development of statistical and probabilistic intuition and understanding through the use of interactive computing and graphics. This project is the next step in the Statistics Department's efforts to improve lower division instruction, which began in 1986 by integrating computing into the undergraduate curriculum. This year, about 2000 lower division students have ongoing computer assignments. Funded by an NSF Grant, 50 X-Windows terminals and a more powerful SUN server were installed in 1993. The X-Window terminals allows reaching students on a graphical/intuitive level. In the interactive windowing environment, different views of data can be linked together and probabilistic concepts illustrated dynamically so that the ideas come alive. Twenty computer projects will be constructed, corresponding to key concepts discussed in lower division courses. Each project is a small story, consisting of a number of related parts that carry the student into rings of related material. Each project requires responses and initiative on the part of the students. All parts of the project have as their core the effort to create a setting to give students better understanding of the particular concept being discussed in their classes. This is a first of its kind in undergraduate statistical instruction. The leadership position of the Department in the field of statistics, in the use of computing, and in undergraduate instruction will be an important factor in the programs, course materials, and approach being adopted by other universities and colleges. ***