Adapting and Implementing INnovative Materias in Statistics Courses (AIMS)

数学科学（21）这个探索性项目采用了过去几年为统计学入门课程制作的几种创新材料（教科书、软件、网络资源和特殊模拟工具）。配套课程计划和学生活动指南的制定建立在当前统计教育研究的结果之上；通过使用最近出版的《统计教育评估和教学指南》（GAISE）作为这项工作的总体框架来教授统计入门课程，进一步加强了该项目的智力价值。该项目正在评估其材料在另一个环境中的可用性，通过对在另一所大学教授的第二门统计学入门课程的随机选择部分的不同课程计划和活动指南的有效性进行比较研究。此外，项目团队正在项目网站上提供课程计划和其他材料，这些材料将被纳入国家科学数字图书馆的CAUSE（本科统计教育促进联盟）数字馆藏。比较研究和带注释的录像片段的传播都有助于扩大统计教育成果的知识库，并增强项目的广泛影响。

Mathematical Sciences (21) This exploratory project is adapting and implementing several types of innovative materials (textbooks, software, web resources, and special simulation tools) produced in the past few years for introductory statistics courses. The development of accompanying lesson plans and student activity guides builds on results from current statistics education research; and the intellectual merit of the project is further strengthened by using the recently published Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) for teaching introductory statistics courses as an overall framework for the effort. The project is evaluating the usability of its materials in another setting through a comparative study on the effectiveness of its different lesson plans and activity guides in randomly selected sections of a second introductory statistics course taught in a different college. In addition, the project team is providing lesson plans and other materials on a project website that is to be incorporated into the CAUSE (Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistical Education) digital collection in the National Science Digital Library. Both the comparative study and the dissemination of annotated video clips are helping expand the knowledge base of results in statistics education and enhance the project's broader impact.