Abstract #300470

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300470
Activity Number: 224
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #300470
Title: Web ARTIST: An Online Resource for the Assessment of Instructional Outcomes
Author(s): Robert C. delMas*+
Companies: University of Minnesota
Address: 128 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0434,
Keywords: assessment ; online resource ; learning outcomes ; introductory statistics ; statistics education
Abstract:

This presentation reports on the Assessment Resource Tools for Improving Statistical Thinking (ARTIST) project which is funded by a National Science Foundation Assessment grant. Over a three-year period, ARTIST will develop a web site that provides several resources: An online collection of high quality assessment items and tasks, coded according to content (e.g., normal distribution, measures of center, bivariate data), item type (e.g., calculation, forced-choice, open-ended, matching), and type of learning outcome (e.g., statistical literacy, reasoning, or thinking); Research and evaluation of items in the collection; An online facility to build tests that can be administered online or downloaded for printing; Guidelines for using assessment items and tasks in various ways; Faculty development workshops and mini-courses on how to use the assessment resources to improve student learning outcomes; A comprehensive test that measures desired outcomes of a first course in statistics. A summary of the process that guided item selection, a first-year progress report, and a demonstration of key features of the online test construction facility will be presented.

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