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.

该项目采用并实施了新开发的交互式课件，该课件在其本科统计课程中充分利用了多媒体。这些材料旨在提高学生对基本统计概念的理解和定量素养，同时提供灵活、有用和个性化的学习环境。 待改编和实施的材料是由贝尔实验室与该部门合作开发的，并且已经在该部门的非微积分入门统计课程中进行了测试。在该系学习课程的学生来自 60 多个不同的系，包括科学、数学、工程和技术 (SMET) 学生以及非 SMET 学生。提供的课程范围广泛，从为希望满足大学定量推理要求的学生提供的入门课程，到为对工程或生命科学应用感兴趣的学生提供的更专业的课程。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来学习如何批判性地思考对他们来说很重要的定量问题。我们相信，在交互式动态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，教师可以轻松地将这些材料整合到课程中，学生可以在课堂环境中以及在课堂外自行使用计算机进行工作。 除了将新材料整合到统计计划中之外，项目活动还包括为教师准备指南和举办有关使用这些材料的培训课程，以及研究该软件对学生学习的影响。