Student Perceptions of Engagement in an Introductory Statistics Course

IF 2.2 Q3 Social Sciences

Journal of Statistics Education Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/10691898.2019.1704201

Sydney Lawton, Laura Taylor

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Abstract

Abstract This article presents the results of a case study from one professor’s experience teaching an introductory statistics course. The goal of this study was to better understand student perceptions of engagement in a statistics course. Voluntary, self-reported data were collected daily for students to evaluate the engagement level of the class that day, and students also identified activities that they considered engaging. A final survey was administered at the end of the semester to provide a holistic, retrospective measure of engagement in the course and to collect feedback on various questions related to perceptions of engagement. Results indicate variation in student engagement scores and variation in engagement scores across the semester indicating some influence of class activity on perceptions of engagement. Perceptions of engagement are contextualized with students’ comments from the daily surveys. Associations between engagement and final course grade were also investigated. Student perceptions of engagement were also compared to the professor’s perception of engagement for students.

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统计入门课程中学生对参与的认知

摘要本文介绍了一位教授在统计学导论课程教学过程中的个案研究结果。本研究的目的是为了更好地了解学生对统计学课程投入的看法。学生们每天都会收集自愿的、自我报告的数据，以评估当天课堂的参与程度，学生们也会确定他们认为参与的活动。学期结束时进行了最后一次调查，以提供对课程参与度的全面、回顾性衡量，并收集与参与度感知相关的各种问题的反馈。结果表明，学生投入得分的变化以及整个学期投入得分的变化表明课堂活动对投入感知的一些影响。参与的感知与学生对日常调查的评论相关联。参与和最终课程成绩之间的关系也被调查。学生对参与的看法也与教授对学生参与的看法进行了比较。

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Journal of Statistics Education EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES-

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1.20

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审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： The "Datasets and Stories" department of the Journal of Statistics Education provides a forum for exchanging interesting datasets and discussing ways they can be used effectively in teaching statistics. This section of JSE is described fully in the article "Datasets and Stories: Introduction and Guidelines" by Robin H. Lock and Tim Arnold (1993). The Journal of Statistics Education maintains a Data Archive that contains the datasets described in "Datasets and Stories" articles, as well as additional datasets useful to statistics teachers. Lock and Arnold (1993) describe several criteria that will be considered before datasets are placed in the JSE Data Archive.