SBIR Phase I: Connecting to Data

*** 9660827 Finzer这个由关键课程出版社开展的小企业创新研究第一阶段项目提议为教师和学生设计和测试软件工具和课程资源，以便在远程站点之间进行数据探索、协作数据收集和分析。新的课程材料和基于互联网的软件工具将与DataSpace （TM）计算机学习环境相结合，用于数据分析和统计。新软件将使学习者能够直接访问互联网上的数据，省去了下载和导入的过程。有了DataSpace，教师和学生将能够在Internet上发布新的数据集，并具有定义的访问级别，可以由其他人读取、添加或修改。原型课程材料将提供如何使用这些新功能的基于课堂的例子。最后，该项目将起草在互联网上存储数据集的标准，并开始在感兴趣的组织之间讨论这些标准。拟议的研究将大大增强数据空间软件和额外的课程材料，所有这些都将在迅速扩大的中学统计市场中发挥重要作用。基于网络协作和及时、远程数据集探索的新课程材料将对教师非常有吸引力，因为它们将为数学和统计学教学提供高度激励的方法。＊＊＊

*** 9660827 Finzer This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project to be carried out by Key Curriculum Press proposes to prototype and test software tools and curriculum resources for teachers and students to engage in data exploration, collaborative data gathering, and analysis among remote sites. The new curriculum materials and Internet-based software tools will be integrated with the DataSpace (TM) computer learning environment for data analysis and statistics. The new software will give learners direct access to data on the Internet, eliminating the downloading and importing processes. With DataSpace, teachers and students will be able to publish new data sets on the Internet with a defined level of access read, add--to, or modify--by others. The prototype curriculum materials will provide classroom-based examples of how to use these new capabilities. Finally, the project will draft standards for storage of data sets on the Internet and begin discussion of such standards among interested organizations. The proposed research will lead to significant enhancements to the DataSpace Software and additonal curriculum materials, all of which will be of great utility in the rapidly expanding secondary school statistics market. The new curriculum materials based on networked collaboration and exploration of timely, remote data sets will be very attractive to teachers as they will provide highly motivated methods for teaching mathematics and statistics. ***