CAREER: Engaging Elementary Students in Data Analysis through Study of Physical Activities

这位犹他州立大学的职业奖获得者正在调查小学生直接参与收集、理解和分析真实的、对个人有意义的数据集时可能发生的学习情况。该项目响应了对初等学生数据收集和分析的日益关注，旨在对这些主题的有效方法知识库作出重要贡献。这项工作的假设是，通过围绕体育活动的研究组织基础统计教学，学生将在数据分析过程中有更多的个人参与，学生也将对统计思想有更扎实的理解。犹他州立大学（Utah State University）伊迪丝·鲍恩实验学校（Edith Bowen Laboratory School）五年级的学生和教师，以及犹他州北部农村地区卡什县学区（Cashe County School District）几所小学的学生和教师，都参加了这个项目。这项工作是由EPSCoR项目共同资助的。统计主题包括中心和变化的措施。学生们使用计步器、心率监测器、其他预防措施和TinkerPlots软件。研究小组调查了个人对数据的所有权和关系对学生对基本统计概念学习的理解和分析数据能力的影响。这项研究包括多年的临床访谈和视频录制的课堂设计实验。研究结果预计将在适当的期刊上发表，并有望在专业会议上提出。与体育活动、中心测量和数据分布有关的课程计划和学生教学材料可供小学使用。

This CAREER awardee at Utah State University is investigating the learning that can take place when elementary school students are directly involved in the collection, sense-making, and analysis of real, personally-meaningful data sets. The project responds to increasing attention to data collection and analysis in elementary grades and aims to make important contributions to the knowledge base on effective approaches to these topics. The hypotheses of this work are that by organizing elementary statistics instruction around the study of physical activities, students will have greater personal engagement in data analysis processes and that students will also develop more robust understandings of statistical ideas. Students and teachers from fifth grade classrooms at the Edith Bowen Laboratory School at Utah State University and from several elementary schools from the Cashe County School District, a rural district in northern Utah, are participating in the project. This work is co-funded by the EPSCoR program.Statistics topics include measures of center and variation. Students use pedometers, heart rate monitors, other probeware, and the TinkerPlots software. The research team investigates the influence of personal ownership and relationships to data on students' understanding of learning of elementary statistics concepts and their ability to analyze data. The research involves multi-year clinical interviews and video-recorded classroom design experiments.Research results are expected to be published in appropriate journals and are expected to be presented at professional meetings. Lesson plans and student instructional materials related to physical activity, measures of center, and data distributions are made available for use in elementary schools.