Resources for JEDI-Informed Teaching of Statistics
Pedagogy, research, and professional development
In November 2013, the FBI released the Hate Crime Statistics, 2012, a report that has been compiled every year since the early 1990s. This lesson provides an opportunity for students to learn more about hate crimes, the annual report and background on the 2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA). Students will also explore possible actions they can take to prevent hate crimes.
Students practice setting up research questions and discussing observational studies about wastewater discrimination in Alabama. This activity has students first work alone, then come together as a group, before turning in their answers as a group. The class was an online introductory statistics class.
This article suggests 5 steps for a statistician to work towards being antiracist (which is not the same as not-racist). The article is filled with reflection questions and more resources, too.
This plugin created for CODAP links to data from the Fatal Encounters website. This website was created as an effort to document people in the United States who were killed during interactions with the police. The data ranges from 2000-2021. The plugin opens in CODAP. Users can subset the data by choosing states they are interested in as well as years. The original dataset has over 35,000 people included in it. Students who open the data via CODAP can quickly make graphs to explore variables of interest.