ASA Connect

As you all know - Increasing numbers of students are coming to college with gaps in their mathematics skills, especially as many have had two years of schooling loss, online learning, and hybrid learning. The challenges associated with learning statistics are not distributed uniformly. Low-income students and students of color are more likely to have had their last two years of high school taught largely online and with less access to broadband internet connections compared to their more affluent peers.

We at Digital Promise believe that many more students can succeed and thrive in college statistics courses with proper support, excellent teaching, and engaging materials and activities that make statistics concepts and methods relevant.

Over the past two years, Digital Promise has assembled two cohorts of postsecondary statistics professors from across the nation. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, these cohorts has worked with Digital Promise to understand how best to implement new statistics courseware being developed by Lumen Learning. Digital Promise is now scaling into a large Randomized Controlled Trial to explore the degree to which the new courseware achieves its goals of improving outcomes for low-income, Black, Indigenous and Latine students.

• Opportunity to contribute to the field's understanding of how to enhance engagement and learning in Introductory Statistics, especially for students of color and those entering college with some holes in their preparation for college-level math.
• Free access to Lumen One for students enrolled in participating statistics classes. (The courseware may be used as a textbook substitute, saving students money!)
• A $1,000 per term honorarium for participating instructors (i.e., up to $3,000).
• A $2,000- $5,000 institutional honorarium for providing archival data for students in participating course sections (dependent upon number of participating instructors).
• Knowledge of how your students respond to survey items about evidence-based teaching practices, motivation, effort, inclusion, and sense of belonging.
• Knowledge of how your students perform on a validated Statistics Concept Assessment, the Benchmark Assessment for Statistics Introductory Concepts (BASIC)