Your Information
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Title of Project: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics:  Incorporating Information Literacy Frames in an Introductory Statistics Course
Your Name: Daniels, Amy
Email Address: danielsa@uncw.edu
School or College: College of Science and Engineering
College of Science and Engineering Academic Department: Mathematics and Statistics

Your Project
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Please describe your project:
The three frames from the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2015) that I highlighted for incorporation in my sections of STT 215 Introductory Statistics are Information Creation as a Process, Research as Inquiry, and Scholarship as Conversation. Information Creation is a Process is especially relevant to statistics. In fact, doing statistics involves multiple processes: collecting, cleaning, representing, and analyzing data. To stress the importance of information literacy, I have included a lesson on “bad” graphs, data visualizations which can be misleading. In the lesson, students will learn how to recognize misleading graphs and how to create graphs are better representative of the data and more informative to the viewer. The frames Research as Inquiry and Scholarship as Conversation mesh beautifully with the course project that my STT 215 students complete at the end of the semester. I have worked to revise that project in three ways: stronger guidance in terms of topic selection, inclusion of peer review, and provisions to archive student projects.


Please choose at least one audience: First-year students
Please choose at least one project category: Assignment, Rubric
Please choose at least one Frame that your project incorporates: Information Creation as a Process, Research as Inquiry, Scholarship as Conversation
File Upload: https://library.uncw.edu/system/files/webform/ilff_final_submission_form/58/Daniels%20ILFF%202022%20all%20files.pdf
What does the "U" in UNCW stand for?: university
Submission date: 2022-05-06