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Scrolling for the Truth
Are today's teens healthier or less healthy than teens in the past?
Students will create a statistical data visualization and an accompanying social media post that deeply analyzes results from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey and identifies what we can—and cannot—validly infer about teen health from these data.
The class will hold a “doomscrolling session” where they evaluate the credibility of one another’s posts, then use those posts as a jumping off point to discuss salient local teen health concerns.
Math
Exposure to early high school statistics standards
A unit within a course tied to Statistics, Data Science or Quantitative Reasoning
Applied Statistics: Pair with Communities & Opportunities, making this unit the second in a one-semester course.
NOTE: Springpoint is developing two additional units that can ultimately serve as a one-year course.
The Statistics TLEs use the GAISE (Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education) framework as its primary set of statistical standards. GAISE is a nationally recognized framework developed by the American Statistical Association that organizes learning around the following four phases of the Statistical Investigation Cycle:
Written Commentary
To craft their posts, students will engage in a statistical inquiry cycle: formulating questions, gathering relevant survey data, and analyzing and interpreting patterns across years and subgroups. They will apply their understanding of simulations, confidence intervals, and survey methodology to evaluate how strongly the data support different statistical claims, accounting for uncertainty and the limitations of the data.