International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 4, Number 2, July 2010
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A Model for Undergraduate Research in Statistics Education
This essay shows how the current SoTL project was used as a vehicle
for undergraduate research to directly improve student learning and
how it might be used to introduce a new paradigm in the training of
secondary mathematics teachers. Using the language of David Lopatto's
research into undergraduate research, I share how I have integrated
an undergraduate student as a co-investigator of our SoTL project. The
article shares the criterion I used for choosing...
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Alan
RussellElon University
Elon, North Carolina, USA
russella@elon.edu
I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Georgia in 1997 and came to Elon charged with strengthening freshman core mathematics. The result is a foundational statistics course grounded in engaged learning taken by eighty percent of our student body. I am currently an associate professor of mathematics with primary interest in teacher education, geometry, and the role of visualization in mathematics. I teach statistics, general studies courses for first-year students, and several senior capstone interdisciplinary seminars I created, including Math Origami. My current research, funded through Elon's Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, finds me at the intersection of mathematics education, statistics, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.