How can a digital tool support a student as they begin to work with their own data? It’s all very well to just provide the features they’ll need, but what exactly can a tool assist with at the data import and preparation stages?
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Descriptive statistics, like mean, median and error bars, illustrate specific aspects of data, and are valuable in drawing conclusions or making comparisons.
We have focused on making these easily available, and easy to play with and to switch between the various forms, to encourage the student to think more about which story their data is telling them.
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My 10th grade biology students had just completed the classic heart-rate/exercise lab and I was left wondering why it fell so short of the learning experience I had planned for them. Despite the great data that my students collected, I had failed yet again to budget sufficient time to really dive into the data analysis with the class.
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By graphing the data in a way that illustrates the question, for example “Are these groups significantly different?”, the student has already done the groundwork.
When they then click on the Graph-Driven Test button, the tool uses this information to suggest an appropriate test.
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The Graph Wizard is an optional assistant for students that could use help in choosing and setting up an appropriate graph for their data.
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We know that this is an extremely difficult moment in education as we are all scrambling to figure out what learning looks like for students during weeks to months-long Covid-19 school closures. We already offer free 90-day trials of DataClassroom and will extend that for any affected school or family for as long as this thing lasts.
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As we teach kids to work with data we believe that it's important to teach best practices that support the learning of a wide range of data skills of increasing complexity. Coding, statistics, and data visualization are all sought after skills in the workplace.
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We know that your lessons are continually getting better with each iteration. Your First Period class does not always get the same polished lesson that your Sixth Period class does, because you are always reflecting and trying to get better for your students.
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