DO YOU TEACH DATA SCIENCE?
Can you help us either in identifying CORE DATA SCIENCE TOPICS or in exploring STUDENT
ATTITUDES…or both?
Then read on…
Please join us as we explore the introductory, college-level data science class and the
variety of settings in which it is taught. Specifically, we endeavor to 1) identify the
wide range of topics covered in these classes, as well as 2) the role that students'
attitudes play in the learning process. In order to empower data science education
researchers to determine best-practices and impacts of interventions or teaching
modalities, we will create a family of instruments to validly measure attitudes toward
data science. This project, which we refer to as
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(Motivational Attitudes in Statistics and Data Science Education Research), is funded by
the National Science Foundation
(
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If you teach an introductory, college-level data science class, there are two ways you
could get involved:
1. What is Data Science? (You get asked this a lot, don't you?) We want to know
what you teach in your introductory data science class. Please fill out our Introductory
Data Science Topics
Survey<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2…amp;reserved=0>!
This should only take about 15 minutes.
2.
Sign-up<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%…
to administer our pilot student attitudes instrument to your students! We request that
you sign up to do this by April 14, 2023.
Feel free to share these opportunities with other colleagues who teach data science (or
send us their contact information). We all know the value of quality data!
We hope you will participate in this important work! Please feel free to contact us if
you have any questions.
Sincerely,
The MASDER Team
April Kerby-Helm, Winona State University, Data Science Co-Lead (akerby(a)winona.edu)
Michael Posner, Villanova University, Data Science Co-Lead (michael.posner(a)villanova.edu)
Alana Unfried (PI), California State University - Monterey Bay (aunfried(a)csumb.edu)
Marjorie Bond, Penn State University
Douglas Whitaker, Mount Saint Vincent University
Leyla Batakci, Elizabethtown College
P.S. This project has been approved by our Institutional Review Board (IRB). For the
student attitudes survey, the IRB has set forth some guidelines that we must follow in
conducting this research. We are including only courses taught in the United States and
the survey should be assigned either for class credit or for extra credit in order to
increase the response rates. We will share with you a list of students who completed the
consent form, but we are unable to reveal additional student information or survey
responses. Amalgamated, de-identified survey data will be publicly available at the end of
the grant period. This
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contains information you can share with your IRB if they want to determine your
eligibility to administer the survey. Your involvement in this project improves the
quality of the final survey which we will develop.