| Title | Introductory Statistics |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Science |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2015 |
| Completion | 12/30/2018 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2015/2016 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Large TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Nancy Heckman |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 140,459 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Faculty of Science: Nancy Heckman, Professor / Head, Statistics Faculty of Medicine: Mike Marin, Instructor, School of Population and Public Health Faculty of Arts: Leslie Burkholder, Senior Instructor, Philosophy |
| Year 1: Summary | Introductory statistics is taught in departments across UBC. Typically, instructional resources and expertise are not shared across units resulting in duplication of efforts or underuse of valuable material. This project brings together instructors from Science, Arts, and the School of Population & Public Health to develop, adapt, and use instructional resources that address conceptually challenging topics in introductory statistics. The resources will be open, adaptable, consistent in look and feel, and grounded in existing research on learning and statistics. This project will also develop, test and document a model for cross-faculty partnership to support introductory statistics instruction. Finally, it will increase UBC’s faculty-level capacity for identifying, evaluating, adapting and/or developing future statistics learning resources. |
| Year 1: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2016/2017 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Large TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Nancy Heckman |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 106,694 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Faculty of Science: Nancy Heckman, Professor / Head, Statistics Faculty of Medicine: Mike Marin, Instructor, School of Population and Public Health Faculty of Arts: Leslie Burkholder, Senior Instructor, Philosophy |
| Year 2: Summary | This project brings together instructors from Science, Arts, and the School of Population & Public Health to develop, adapt, and use instructional resources that address conceptually challenging topics in introductory statistics. The resources will be open, adaptable, consistent in look and feel, and grounded in existing research on learning and statistics. Year 1 of the project focused on building our resource development teams and facilitating cross-team partnerships; identifying key conceptual difficulties and instructional challenges associated with the project’s Topic #1: Sampling Distribution of the Mean; beginning the development of instructional resources and plans for beta testing; and systematically building a tool to support the curation and use of the project’s resources. Year 2 expands resource development, implementation and evaluation, while introducing the STATSpace digital content management system. This project is also developing, testing and will document a model for cross-faculty partnership to support introductory statistics instruction. |
| Year 2: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Project Report | 2016-TLEF-Final-Report-Heckman-WEB.pdf |