The HI-RiSE team generates solutions to improve data literacy by creating effective statistics and data science education learning environments that impact the education of teachers and students from around the world.

Highlighted Projects

InSTEP: Invigorating Statistics Teacher Education Through Professional Online Learning

InSTEP partners with RTI International to design and deploy an innovative personalized online learning platform to allow teachers to develop their expertise in teaching statistics and data science.

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ESTEEM II: Enhancing Statistics Teacher Education with E- Modules

ESTEEM will facilitate the infusion of statistics and data science content and pedagogy into undergraduate mathematics teacher preparation by providing faculty with technological and curricular resources, networking experiences and ongoing support.

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Writing Data Stories: Integrating Computational Data Investigations into the Middle School Science Classroom

The Data Stories project attempts to integrate computational data analysis into the middle school science curriculum in a longitudinal, interdisciplinary way.

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Our Impact

“The HI-RISE team is one of the most important groups in data science education today. Their thoughtful work equipping teachers to teach with and about data and their innovative use of data exploration tools such as CODAP sets the bar for the rest of the field.”

Chad Dorsey

CEO, Concord Consortium

Funders

• National Science Foundation
• US Department of Education: Institute of Educational Sciences
• RTI International
• American Statistical Association
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Partners

• NC State Data Science Academy
• NC State Science House
• Data Science 4 Everyone
• American Statistical Association K-12 Education
• Concord Consortium
• RTI International
• Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education
• SAS Education Outreach

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Hollylynne S. Lee

Distinguished University Professor and Senior Faculty Fellow

hollylynne@ncsu.edu

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Gemma Mojica

Director of Hub for Innovation and Research in Statistics and Data Science Education

919-513-8549 gmmojica@ncsu.edu

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Emily Thrasher

Social Sci, Research Scholar

epthrash@ncsu.edu

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Bruce Graham

Graduate Student

bmgraha2@ncsu.edu

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Adrian Kuhlman

Graduate Student

akuhlma@ncsu.edu

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Rachel Abel

Graduate Student

raabel@ncsu.edu

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Matthew Ferrell

Graduate Student

mferrel@ncsu.edu

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Michelle Pace

Graduate Student

bmmurphy@ncsu.edu