Infusing Quantitative Literacy throughout the Social Science Curriculum

社会学(86)政治学(85)经济学(82)地理(88)社会科学-其他(89)这个项目致力于改变社会科学的教学，在整个课程中注入量化素养，并为本科生提供机会，利用最先进的社会科学数据进行积极的研究体验。主要的项目活动是创建、传播和评估教材，使教师能够轻松地在非方法论课程中整合数据分析。其目标是缩小学生在早期课程中学到的东西与社会科学中实证研究的重要性之间的“定量推理差距”。该项目的合作伙伴正在建立两个现有的数据来源(1)社会科学数据分析网络(SSDAN)，它根据美国人口普查数据分发教学模块；(2)大学间政治和社会研究联盟(ICPSR)，世界上最大的社会科学数据档案。该项目的第二个目标是招聘有经验的教员来开发新的工具来评估学生的学习情况，并在他们的课堂上进行评估。这些评估工具旨在与现有和新的教材一起分发。正在开发新的软件和教学策略，以简化向本科生展示的复杂数据。第三个目标是为教职员工提供培训，向他们介绍新数据集的特点、相关统计技术、教学策略和评估程序。对终端用户的大部分传播是通过使用具有成本效益的网络研讨会进行的。将调动美国社会学协会、美国政治学协会、全国数字计算网络以及国际公共科学委员会成员的600多所学院、大学和研究机构的传播资源，传播有关新教材的信息。网站将得到加强，以帮助教师在学科范围内形成教学社区。这种方法有望使本科生接触和理解研究在社会科学中的作用的方式发生翻天覆地的变化。

Sociology (86)Political Science (85)Economics (82)Geography (88)Social Sciences - Other (89)This project is working to transform teaching in the social sciences by infusing quantitative literacy throughout the curriculum and by providing undergraduates opportunities to engage in active research experiences using the most advanced social science data. The primary project activities are creating, disseminating, and assessing teaching materials that make it easy for instructors to integrate data analysis in non-methodology courses. The goal is to reduce the "quantitative reasoning gap" between what students learn in early courses and the importance of empirical research in the social sciences. The partners in this project are building upon two extant sources of data (1) the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN), which distributes teaching modules based on US Census data, and (2) the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the world's largest social science data archive. A second goal of the project is to recruit experienced faculty members to develop new tools for assessing student learning and to conduct assessments in their classes. These assessment tools are intended for distribution with existing and new teaching materials. New software and teaching strategies are being developed to simplify complex data for presentation to undergraduates. A third goal is to provide training for faculty members to introduce them to the characteristics of new data sets, relevant statistical techniques, teaching strategies, and assessment procedures. Much of the dissemination to end users is taking place through the use of cost-effective Webinars. The communication resources of the American Sociological Association, the American Political Science Association, the National Numeracy Network, and the more than 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions who are members of ICPSR are to be mobilized to disseminate information about new teaching materials. Web sites are to be enhanced to help faculty form teaching communities within disciplines. This approach is expected to help bring about a transformative change in the ways that undergraduates encounter and understand the role of research in the social sciences.