Modules for Teaching Statistics with Pedagogies using Active Learning (MTStatPAL)

使用主动学习的教学法进行统计教学的模块 (MTStatPAL)

• 批准号: 1245393
• 负责人: Ginger Rowell
• 金额: $ 17.5万
• 依托单位: Middle Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1245393&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Modules; Teaching; Statistics; Pedagogies; using

Modules for Teaching Statistics with Pedagogies using Active Learning (MTStatPAL) provides all-inclusive modules that helps experienced and inexperienced instructors facilitate active learning lessons in teaching introductory college statistics. The active learning lessons include scripts and video segments of experienced instructors completing the activities with students. In this way, the project uses an innovative approach by providing a model of active learning instruction, which assists teachers in anticipating complications that could occur in implementing activity-based lessons. Each module consists of the following components: (1) An online Pre- or Post-class Activity designed to prepare students for (or supplement) the corresponding in-class activity, which includes a video introduction to the topic, embedded quizzes, and a note-taking template. (2) A package of Instructor Resource Materials that provides a tip sheet with a script for the lesson, a video of the in-class activity facilitated by an experienced statistics teacher, and assessment questions and solutions to evaluate students' conceptual knowledge. (3) An In-class Activity designed to promote student discourse and to help students gain understanding of a statistical concept through an active learning process.While there is vast literature on the benefits of active learning, there is far less on how to assist instructors, especially inexperienced ones, in effectively implementing active learning lessons. To research the effectiveness of the materials, MTStatPAL employs design experiment methodology (Cobb, diSessa, Lehrer, & Schauble, 2003) to study how the elements of the introductory statistics learning ecology (tasks students solve, kinds of classroom discourse, norms of participation, tools used for learning, and the practical ways the teacher orchestrates relations between these elements) are impacted by the implementation of the MTStatPAL modules the project develops, shifts in student reasoning as a result of completing the MTStatPAL learning modules, as well as, how faculty adapt to teaching with the MTStatPAL learning modules.At Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), initial implementation of the modules is taking place in the classrooms of full-time temporary faculty, graduate teaching assistants, and adjunct faculty. A dedicated website allows for the dissemination of the project on a national and international scale. To inform statistics educators of the availability of the active learning modules developed by MTStatPAL, the project team will share results of the project and their project materials at national statistics education events, through national digital libraries (e.g. www.causeweb.org), and through publications.

使用主动学习（MTSTATPAL）教学统计学的模块提供了全包模块，可帮助经验丰富和经验不足的讲师促进教学入门统计学的积极学习课程。 积极的学习课程包括与学生一起完成活动的经验教练的脚本和视频片段。 通过这种方式，该项目通过提供一种主动学习指导的模型来使用创新的方法，该模型可以帮助教师预测可能在实施基于活动的课程时发生的并发症。 每个模块由以下组件组成：（1）在线或后类活动旨在为学生准备（或补充）相应的课堂活动，其中包括对主题的视频介绍，嵌入式的测验和笔记模板。 （2）一包讲师资源材料，提供了一个带有脚本的小费表，经验丰富的统计老师促进的课堂活动的视频以及评估学生的评估问题和解决方案，以评估学生的概念知识。 （3）旨在通过积极学习过程来促进学生话语并帮助学生了解统计概念的课堂活动。尽管有关于积极学习的好处的广泛文献，但如何帮助教师，尤其是经验丰富的教师，有效地实施活跃的学习课程，却少得多。 为了研究材料的有效性，mtstatpal采用设计实验方法（Cobb，Disessa，Lehrer和＆Schauble，2003年）来研究介绍性统计学学习生态学的元素如何解决（任务学生求解，课堂课程的类型，参与的规范，学习的工具，以及教师之间的关系）模块的项目发展，由于完成MTSTATPAL学习模块的结果，学生推理的转变以及教师如何适应MTSTATPAL学习模块的教学。 专门的网站允许在国家和国际规模上传播该项目。 为了将MTSTATPAL开发的主动学习模块的可用性告知统计学教育者，项目团队将通过国家数字图书馆（例如www.causeweb.org）和出版物分享项目的结果及其项目材料的结果及其项目材料。