An Interactive Learning Environment in Statistics : Integrating Multimedia Laboratory Exercises and Courseware into the Statistics Curriculum

统计学的交互式学习环境：将多媒体实验室练习和课件融入统计学课程

• 批准号: 9950161
• 负责人: Deborah Nolan
• 金额: $ 9.92万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-01 至 2002-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9950161&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interactive; Learning; Environment; Statistics; Integrating

This project adapts and implements newly developed interactive courseware that significantly utilizes multimedia into its undergraduate statistics program. The materials are designed to improve students' understanding of basic statistical concepts and their quantitative literacy while providing a flexible, helpful and individualized learning environment. The materials to be adapted and implemented were developed by Bell Laboratories in collaboration with the Department and have already been tested in the Department's basic non-calculus-based introductory statistics course. Students who take courses in the Department come from over 60 different departments, and include science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) students as well as non-SMET students. The courses offered range from introductory courses for students wishing to fulfill the University's quantitative reasoning requirement to more specialized courses for students with interests in applications to engineering or the life sciences. The statistical training offered in these courses provides students a rare opportunity to learn how to think critically about quantitative problems that are and will be important to them. We believe that providing these students with laboratory exercises in an interactive and dynamic environment can be a very effective educational device. This project creates a laboratory environment where instructors can easily integrate these materials into the curriculum, and where students can work using the computer both in a classroom environment and on their own outside of the classroom. Along with integrating the new materials into the statistics program, project activities include preparing guides and conducting training sessions for faculty on the use of these materials, and studying the impact of this software on student learning.

该项目适应并实施了新开发的交互式课程软件，该课程将多媒体大量利用为其本科统计计划。这些材料旨在提高学生对基本统计概念及其定量素养的理解，同时提供灵活，有益和个性化的学习环境。 贝尔实验室与该部门合作开发了要调整和实施的材料，并且已经在该部门的基于非阵容的基于基于非库存的介绍性统计课程中进行了测试。参加该系课程的学生来自60多个不同的部门，包括科学，数学，工程和技术（SMET）学生以及非药品学生。这些课程提供的范围从希望满足大学定量推理要求的学生的入门课程到对对工程或生命科学申请兴趣的学生的更专业课程。这些课程中提供的统计培训为学生提供了一个难得的机会，可以学习如何批判性地思考对他们很重要的定量问题。我们认为，在互动和动态的环境中为这些学生提供实验室练习可能是一种非常有效的教育手段。该项目创建了一个实验室环境，讲师可以轻松地将这些材料整合到课程中，并且在教室环境和教室外面，学生都可以在这些材料中使用计算机工作。 除了将新材料集成到统计计划中，项目活动还包括准备指南和进行有关这些材料使用的教师的培训课程，并研究该软件对学生学习的影响。