(sorry for any cross-postings!)
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to participate in
MASDER<http://sdsattitudes.com/wp/>p/>, an NSF-funded
research study of attitudes toward statistics and data science. YOU can help us collect a
representative sample AND receive a $125 Amazon gift card for participation. Sign up
quickly (within the first week of your term!); only the first 100 instructors who sign up
are eligible for the gift card! We need data from a WIDE range of instructors: graduate
student TAs, instructors who have only taught a statistics or data science course one
time, seasoned experienced instructors, and everything in between. Please share widely
with anyone you know who has taught or is teaching an undergraduate introductory
statistics or data science course.
This national data collection is the last phase of a multi-year project funded by the
National Science Foundation (DUE-2013392) which has received Institutional Review Board
approval<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V4o0R0du_vPt6ZPWx8tlZx1…
from California State University, Monterey Bay. Collecting this nationally representative
sample is essential to its success.
We have developed a family of instruments to help us understand students’ attitudes about
statistics and data science within the broader context of the instructor and learning
environment. In the spring term (January-June 2024), we would like for you to participate
in this study by:
* Giving a student attitudes survey to your class, which students will complete in a
pre/post format
* Completing an instructor attitudes survey, one time
* Completing a learning environment inventory in a pre/post format
As a thank you for administering these surveys, you will be compensated with a $125 Amazon
Gift Card (not a drawing!). We will also provide you with a customized report comparing
your own class(es) to the national sample. At the end of the project, we will publicly
release the de-identified dataset that you will be able to download and use.
We are also looking for a subset of instructors to administer an optional statistics/data
science content assessment (that can be given as a take home assignment) so that we can
link students’ attitudes to statistics/data science content knowledge; instructors who
administer the content assessment will receive an additional $25 Amazon Gift Card.
For more information and answers to Frequently Asked Questions, please visit our
website<http://sdsattitudes.com/wp/faq-spring-2024/>4/>. You can also email the MASDER
team at MASDER@winona.edu<mailto:MASDER@winona.edu> for more information about the
project. Please note that due to our IRB approval and scope of grant, we are only
recruiting courses taught in the United States.
Please fill out this short survey<https://forms.gle/Ke3zhTaJXN6PLkBG8> by the start
of your semester/term to let us know if you intend to participate.
We thank you in advance for your help!
Dr. Alana Unfried (PI), California State University, Monterey Bay (aunfried(a)csumb.edu)
Dr. Marjorie E. Bond, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. April Kerby-Helm, Winona State University (akerby(a)winona.edu)
Dr. Michael A. Posner, Villanova University
Dr. Douglas Whitaker, Mount Saint Vincent University
Dr. Leyla Batakci, Elizabethtown College