College of Education and Human Development

Department of Educational Psychology

People

Chelsey Legacy

  • Pronouns: she, her, hers

  • Teaching assistant professor

My research interests are in teaching and learning statistics. In particular, I study multivariate thinking, visualization, and computing in statistics and data science courses.

    DEGREES

    PhD, educational psychology, University of Minnesota
    MS, statistics, Iowa State University
    BS, mathematics, St. Lawrence University

      AREAS OF INTEREST
      • Statistics education
      • Data science education
      • Multivariate thinking
      • Computational thinking in statistics and data science education
        BIOGRAPHY

        My research interests are in teaching and learning statistics. In particular, I study multivariate thinking, visualization, and computing in statistics and data science courses. My research interests inform my teaching as I work to modernize the curriculum to better integrate these important skills. I aim to make teaching statistics both informative and engaging for students, and to ease any anxieties they may have when entering my classroom. I have taught both undergraduate (EPSY 3264) and graduate (EPSY 5261) level introductory statistics courses here at the University of Minnesota.

          PUBLICATIONS

          Legacy, C., Zieffler, A., Brondos Fry, E., & Le, L. (2022). Computes: Development of an instrument to measure introductory statistics instructors’ emphasis on computational practices. Statistics Education Research Journal, 21(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.52041/serj.v21i1.63

          Legacy, C., Zieffler, A., Baumer, B. S., Barr, V., & Horton, N. J. (2022). Facilitating team-based data science: Lessons learned from the DSC-WAV project. Foundations of Data Science. https://doi.org/10.3934/fods.2022003

            PRESENTATIONS

            Legacy, C., Zieffler, A., Fry, E., Le, L. (2021, August). COMPUTES: Evaluating the state of computing in introductory statistics. [Poster presentation]. 12th Annual Satellite Conference of the International Association for Statistical Education, online.

            Legacy, C., Rao, V. N., Zieffler, A., & delMas, R. (2022). Data to graphs and back: Secondary teachers’ reasoning about the aesthetic mappings that link data and visualizations. In K. Makar, and D. Ben-Zvi (Eds.), Proceedings of SRTL-12.

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            • Educational Psychology
              250 Education Sciences Bldg.
              56 East River Road
              Minneapolis, MN 55455

            • legac006@umn.edu