Assessment of Materials for Engaging Students in Statistical Discovery

Autor/inn/en	Froelich, Amy G.; Duckworth, William M.
Titel	Assessment of Materials for Engaging Students in Statistical Discovery
Quelle	In: Journal of Statistics Education, 16 (2008) 2, (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1069-1898
Schlagwörter	Introductory Courses; Student Attitudes; Field Tests; Program Effectiveness; Data Analysis; Statistics; Instructional Materials; Mathematics Instruction; Teaching Methods; College Instruction; Course Descriptions; Instructional Effectiveness; Instructional Material Evaluation; Material Development; Pretesting; Discovery Learning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Einführungskurs; Schülerverhalten; Praxisübung; Auswertung; Statistik; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Hochschullehre; Kursstrukturplan; Unterrichtserfolg; Lehrmaterialentwicklung; Vortest; Entdeckendes Lernen
Abstract	As part of an NSF funded project we developed new course materials for a general introductory statistics course designed to engage students in statistical discovery. The materials were designed to actively involve students in the design and implementation of data collection and the analysis and interpretation of the resulting data. Our overall goal was to have students begin to think like statisticians, to construct ways of thinking about data collection and analysis, to solve problems using data in context. During their development, the materials and related activities were field tested in a small special section of an introductory statistics course for two semesters. This field testing was a "proof of concept," that is that the materials could work in the laboratory setting and that the materials showed promise for improving students' learning. As a first step in evaluating these materials, students who enrolled in regular sections of the introductory course were used as a comparison group. In this paper, the development and use of the course materials will be discussed briefly. The strategy for evaluating the materials while they were being developed and analysis of students' performance on common assessment questions and the course project will be presented. In addition, the relationship between student attitudes toward statistics and students' performance will be examined. (Contains 17 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10