• Interests
  • Cognitive-Focused Projects
    • Harnessing GPT Technologies to Develop Students’ Statistical and Computational Thinking
    • Categorization of Statistical Measures
    • Human Clustering
  • Design-Based Projects
    • Aesthetic Mappings
    • Biostatistical Literacy
    • Gender Inclusivity
    • Building a Modern Assessment for Statistical Literacy
    • Vedic Inspired Pedagogies

Welcome to my Research and Scholarship page! Below, you will find links to project pages for some of my projects.

Note: to return to this site from any of the project pages, click on my name listed under project team.


Interests

My work applies theories and methods from the cognitive and learning sciences to investigate the act of learning and doing statistics, and critically examines statistics education research theories and methodologies.

Generally speaking, my work falls into one of two categories:

  • investigations of the cognitive processes underlying statistical thinking, and
  • design-based educational research to develop new statistics pedagogies.


Cognitive-Focused Projects


Harnessing GPT Technologies to Develop Students’ Statistical and Computational Thinking

What computational thinking skills are needed in order to successfully utilize generative AI applications to complete statistical and data related tasks? How can these technologies help broaden participation in STEM? For more, visit link coming soon.


Categorization of Statistical Measures

How do the statistically significant and not statistically significant category labels affect our cognition of statistical measures like p-values and Cohen’s d effect sizes? For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/p-values/.


Human Clustering

How do humans cluster sets of points? Is their clustering reliable? What individual and group differences are there in human clustering? What other cognitive processes is clustering related to? For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/clustering/.


Design-Based Projects


Aesthetic Mappings

How do secondary teachers reason about aesthetic mappings linking complex data structures and modern data visualizations? For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/Data-to-Graphs/.


Biostatistical Literacy

What is biostatistical literacy, and how can we promote students’ biostatistical literacy skills? For more, visit RaoVNV.github.io/BiostatLiteracyProject.


Gender Inclusivity

How should we incorporate and discuss gender as an attribute in datasets used in instruction and practice in STEM courses? For more, visit https://raovnv.github.io/GenderInclusivity/.


Building a Modern Assessment for Statistical Literacy

The 2016 GAISE Guidelines call for the incorporation of multivariable thinking into introductory statistics curricula. How can we measure the efficacy of curricula in developing these skills, and how can we measure students’ multivariable thinking abilities? For more, visit link coming soon.


Vedic Inspired Pedagogies

The Vedas and BhagavadGita contain essential lessons for all humanity. How can we borrow and apply pedagogical strategies from these timeless works to any subject we teach, including statistics? For more, visit link coming soon.