Publications
The Data Clubs project explores how middle school youth engage with data, make sense of datasets, and ask questions of data. Below are some examples of the project’s ground-breaking research that elucidate how Data Clubs participants learn to use big datasets and think critically about data.
Higgins, T., Mokros, J., Rubin, A., Sagrans, J. (2023). Students’ approaches to exploring the relationship between categorical variables. Teaching Statistics, 45(S1), S52-S66. URL:
Mokros, J., Higgins, T., Sagrans, J., & Rubin, A. (2023). Characteristics of good datasets for 10–14-year-old youth. International Association for Statistics Education Satellite Conference, July 11–13, Toronto, Canada.
Sagrans, J., Mokros, J., Voyer, C., Sagrans, J., & Harvey, M. (2022, Jan/Feb). Data science meets science teaching. The Science Teacher.
Higgins, T., Rubin, A., Mokros, J., Sagrans, J., & Ren-Mitchell, A. (2021) When the data drive the learning. Proceedings of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) Satellite Conference.
Harvey, M., Mokros, J., Sagrans, J., & Voyer, C. (2020). Connected Science Learning, 2(3).
Mokros, J., Rubin, R., & Sagrans, J. (2020, October 19). [conference presentation]. Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) Virtual 2020 Annual Conference. (links to slides)
Rubin, A. (2020) Learning to reason with data: How did we get here and what do we know? Journal of the Learning Sciences, 29, 154-164.
Rubin, A., Higgins, T., Mokros, J., & Sagrans, J. (2020). 2020 STEM for All Video Showcase.
Mokros, J., & Rubin, A. (2019). Poster presented at the Association of Science Technology (ASTC) annual meeting, September 2019. Toronto, Canada.
Rubin, A. (2019a). Data Clubs: Introducing Middle School Students to the Power of Data. Invited Symposium on “Data Science at School Level” at the Joint Statistics Meeting, July 2019. Denver, CO.
Rubin, A., & Mokros, J. (2019a). Paper presented at the Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy workshop, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, July 2019. (presentation slides)
Rubin, A. (2019d). What Should Students Know about Data? Invited talk in Presidential Session, Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning (CSCL) conference, June 2019. Lyon, France.
Rubin, A. (2019c). Hands On!, AV°ÍĘż, Cambridge, MA, Spring 2019.
Rubin, A. (2019b). Designing Data Experiences for Middle School Youth. Science Education Department Seminar Series, Harvard University, February 2019. Cambridge, MA.
Rubin, A., & Mokros, J. (2019b). One-page project description for NSF.
Rubin, A. (2018). Data Science Education webinar series, sponsored by Concord Consortium, September 24, 2018. (video of webinar)
Rubin, A., & Mokros, J. (2018). Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10), Kyoto, Japan, July 8–3, 2018.