학술논문

Culturally Relevant Data in Teaching of Statistics and Data Science Courses
Document Type
article
Source
Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, Pp 1-30 (2023)
Subject
Statistics education
data science education
culturally relevant pedagogy
culturally responsive teaching
Probabilities. Mathematical statistics
QA273-280
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
Language
English
ISSN
26939169
2693-9169
Abstract
AbstractIn this paper, we consider how to make data more meaningful to students through the choice of data and the activities we use them in drawing upon students lived experiences more in the teaching of statistics and data science courses. In translating scholarship around culturally relevant pedagogy from the fields of education and mathematics education we develop the idea of culturally relevant data. We see this development as a key ingredient to implementing culturally relevant pedagogy in teaching data-intensive courses leveraging the centrality of context through data in both statistics and data science to engage students particularly from historically marginalized groups in STEM. We provide suggestions as to ways of finding or creating culturally relevant data and using them in implementing culturally relevant pedagogy to support the learning and flourishing of students in statistics and data science courses. We also present findings from pilot work we have done in implementing these data in statistics courses. Finally, we discuss lingering questions and possible next steps for research in this area.