Modern Interdisciplinary University Statistics Education Proceedings of a Symposium (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Let me briefly summarize what ~ have heard so far: The purpose of this conference is to instigate change in upper-undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctorate statistics education. The focus is what changes in statistics education are needed to incorporate interdisciplinary training into these programs, bring curricula up to date, and improve the apprenticing of statistics graduate and postdoctoral students.
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Instead, the theory of constructivism describes learning as the process of integrating new information into students' previous knowledge and beliefs, as students construct their own representations of what is being learned. Much research in the areas of cognitive science, mathematics education, and science education supports this theory of learning.
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Since students learn to do well only what they have practiced doing, teamwork and collaborative activities need to be an ongoing part of students' educational experience, and not just one isolated class in which students work on projects. Teamwork and collaboration should also be modeled by the sharing of experiences by faculty involved in cross disciplinary projects.
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The third theme ~ mentioned was solving real problems. We heard recommendations for courses to be built on real problems, real data, taught by people with experience analyzing real data, who can provide role models in data analysis.
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In keeping with the suggestions for good teaching ~ have described, ~ would like to see teacher training programs help graduate students learn about We teaching and learning process, learn how to develop and facilitate cooperative learning activities, become experienced with the role of assessment (and alternative fonns of assessment) , and learn about current ways to Improve teaching in their discipline (~at is, the use of software as a teaching tool, Me use of projects, and so on)
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1991. Cooperative Learning: Increasing College Faculty Instructional Productivity.
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