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Paper 3: Authentic Discovery Projects In Statistics, Dianna Spence, Robb Sinn
Paper 3: Authentic Discovery Projects In Statistics, Dianna Spence, Robb Sinn
Georgia Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (GAMTE) Annual Conference
We report the activities and findings of a 3-year project, ―Authentic, Career-Specific, Discovery Learning Projects in Introductory Statistics,‖ funded by the National Science Foundation. The project scope includes: 1) development of teaching materials for using discovery learning projects to teach statistics; 2) training secondary teachers to use the materials developed; 3) evaluation of student outcomes, in both content knowledge and attitudes toward statistics; and 4) extending and refining teacher training.
With input from an interdisciplinary team of instructors, materials were developed to assist the teacher in facilitating collaborative discovery projects using linear regression techniques and comparison techniques with appropriate t-tests. …