Using data cards for teaching data based decision trees in middle school

Podworny, Susanne; Fleischer, Yannik; Hüsing, Sven; Biehler, Rolf; Frischemeier, Daniel; Höper, Lukas; Schulte, Carsten

doi:10.1145/3488042.3489966

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“…We developed a series of nine lessons and conducted them in several classes in grade 6. The main approach of our teaching unit is described in Podworny et al (2021).…”

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“…We rather want to enable them to actively shape data-related insights and decisionmaking. (Schüller et al, 2021, p. 3) Introducing the idea of decision trees with an unplugged activity is the goal of a teaching unit we developed for grade 6 students (aged 11-12) in the ProDaBi project (www.prodabi.de/en) (Podworny et al, 2021). Students use data cards about 55 food items with data on nutritional values to develop decision rules that classify food items as "rather recommendable" or not.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Grade 6 Students’ Perception and Use of Data-Based Decision Trees

Podworny¹,

Fleischer²,

Hüsing³

2022

Bridging the Gap: Empowering and Educating Today’s Learners in Statistics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference

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Decision-making processes are often based on data and data-driven machine learning methods in different areas such as recommender systems, medicine, criminalistics, etc. Well-informed citizens need at least a minimal understanding and critical reflection of corresponding data-driven machine learning methods. Decision trees are a method that can foster a preformal understanding of machine learning. We developed an exploratory teaching unit introducing decision trees in grade 6 along the question “How can Artificial Intelligence help us decide whether food is rather recommendable or not?” Students’ performances in an assessment task and self-assessment show that young learners can use a decision tree to classify new items and that they found the corresponding teaching unit informative.

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“…We developed a series of nine lessons and conducted them in several classes in grade 6. The main approach of our teaching unit is described in Podworny et al (2021).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%